By S Porter
A wedding is often one of the biggest days in a persons life and an experience that no one wants to go through more than once. Not everyone is lucky enough to have a marriage last a lifetime, but that is the assumption we all have going into it. The economy is in bad shape right now and it may be for some time, but a wedding can't be put off until things improve. If your big day is approaching you may be thinking that not hiring a professional photographer is a good way to save some money, but there are many reasons not to skimp on pictures. The wedding day will come and go, and the only thing you will have to remember it by is your wedding pictures.
Since the invention of the digital camera, the common held belief has become that anyone can take a picture as good as the next guy. A family member is often recruited to take some pictures at the wedding and that seems good enough; until the day is over and you see what you are left with. We can all buy hammers and chisels, but we can't all sculpt eye pleasing statues. Getting people in their proper places for wedding pictures along with proper lighting can be a real pain if you don't know what your doing. Without this kind of experience, you will be left with a bunch of blurry moving pictures that don't really capture the moment.
Professional photographers are artists with the ability to see a perfect moment in time amongst all the movement around it. They come prepared with high grade equipment to test lighting conditions, and extra lights and reflectors to remove shadows and red eye. Their cameras are far better than the average point and shoot purchased at the local electronics store. Digital programs for retouching photos put the finishing touches on your pictures to make them as perfect as they can be. The result is a set of wedding pictures created with years of experience that can't be reproduced by uncle Jim.
Once the wedding day has gone by, your pictures will be delivered in a number of different formats depending on your preference. If your wedding was shot on film, then you may receive the proofs and the negatives; but if the photographer used digital, then you will get a disk with pictures on it. These pictures can be taken to a local photo shop and copied to be sent to family and friends, or blown up to be framed and placed on your wall. Photographers used to control the copyright of the pictures they took and you had to pay them for every picture that you wanted a copy of; but since scanners and digital pictures became so common, most now just pass the copyright on to you along with your photos. If you do hire a professional, make sure that they will give you free reign to use the pictures any way you want after they give them to you.
Hiring a wedding photographer can require some shopping, but it's well worth the cost to have a professional on your big day. More experience is better, but some times a good photographer can have just a few years under their belt with natural ability. An affordable wedding photographer doesn't mean their work is sub standard; it could just mean they are competitive. Some photographers charge outrageous prices to try and pass themselves off as the best, but it's important to see examples of their work and make the judgment yourself. Your wedding will be in your memory for the rest of your life; hire a good wedding photographer and the quality of the pictures will match the way you remember it.
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