Posts Tagged ‘choosing a wedding photographer’

Available Light?



Well sometimes it’s yes and sometimes it’s YES!

Often light is not where you’d think it is. Like in a bright field of flowers, which, while pretty, causes squinting and dark shadows. And camera flashes? I shudder every time someone fires off a flash when there is great light all around them. They have their place but not when they kill the beauty of what’s already there.

Choosing a Wedding Photographer 2.0



Article written by: Apostolos Nikolakopoulos, Socal Wedding Photography and Video

At least once or twice a week, one of the brides coming to my studio for a consultation, walks in, sits on the couch, and as soon as her purse hits the coffee table, out comes the list. It’s a list of questions for your wedding photographer that she has found in a bridal magazine or website. Unfortunately, most of them contain obvious questions like do you have a backup camera (!), how many weddings have you photographed (I stopped counting after 100), how many years have you been doing this (going on nine as a full-time wedding photographer), etc. One time, after years of answering pretty much the same questions, I couldn’t hold back anymore, so I asked the bride who was in my studio…