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What are some must have photos you loved from your wedding? Making a list for my photographer now!
Main Post: What are some must have photos you loved from your wedding? Making a list for my photographer now!
Top Comment: Honestly my favorite photos so far are the true candid or directional candid ones! By directional candid I mean our photographer would say like something like “walk towards me” and then just let us do our own thing. I feel like the capture the true essence of the day more than any posed or planned picture.
How bad are these wedding photos? (is this normal?)
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Back in june, I posted this about my photographer not sending us a single picture after 7 months.
Well, this week, we have FINALLY received our wedding pictures (she did send us a small preview gallery back in june after we were more firm about requesting to see something). Now the problem is... They're not good?
We're unsure about the quality of our pictures. We did want a candid style, but we assumed the photographer would know how to shoot - take multiple pictures to discard the weird expression/closed eyes ones, shoot nice angles, not cut our parents' heads off... But this is not the case. I know she will say it's just her personal style if we ask her. There are also blurry pictures and some with pretty bad composition that look like random pictures taken by anyone with a smartphone. Do you think it's justifiable or are we just being picky because we waited so long for the pictures?
Also, the pictures are not what we wanted at all. I mentioned I don't care much about pictures of us getting ready/pictures of the shoes, parfum, etc and I mostly wanted to have pictures of the people having fun and enjoying the reception, the food and the party. There's barely any - the pictures are 40% before the ceremony, 40% ceremony, 10% our dance, 5% band, 5% everything else (family pictures, reception, etc). The same people are featured all the time and many people are not in the pictures at all - mind you, it was a small wedding with 99 people. I just don't really understand how there are only 5 pictures of the reception and the banquet (which was around 5 hours). We thought we were getting pictures of everything and they'd stay only one hour after the dance was over.
I made a spreadsheet with the pictures and what they feature. Out of a total of 822 pictures, there are 0 of us or guests in the reception, 0 of our friends or family at the venue, 0 of our family at the party, only 4 of our family at the ceremony, but there are:
- 92 pictures of the bride at the ceremony vs 3 pictures of the groom at the ceremony
- 60 pictures of the bride walking down the aisle vs 1 picture of the groom at the aisle
- 49 pictures of the couple's entrance at the venue vs 12 pictures of anything else at the venue (guests, family, decorations)
- 45 pictures of the first dance vs 9 pictures of guests at the party
- 1 picture of my sister (bridesmaid) vs 28 pictures of the bride putting on her shoes (yep)
- 0 pictures of my grandparents vs 13 pictures of my shoes
- 0 pictures of my best friend (who travelled 800km to come) vs 13 pictures of my parents' dog
- 0 pictures of the officiant (uncle) vs 17 pictures of my aunt's speech
- 0 pictures of the groom's vows vs 5 pictures of my aunt breastfeeding her baby
(sigh...)
Another thing - there are A LOT of repeats. There are literally 5 pictures of my aunt breastfeeding her baby in the middle of the ceremony. 3 pictures of my dad looking down at the family dog while someone's saying their speech. 6 pictures of the rings exchange (taken 0.1 secs apart). 60 pictures of me walking down the aisle. 28 pictures of me putting on my shoes. After being vocal about wanting pictures of the guests (not so much of myself and attire details), I'm a bit disappointed.
When you got your wedding pictures, did you also get almost no pictures of guests, reception and venue?
The pictures are not edited. Most of them are simply exported and some of them have a black and white filter and some grain that you can add with the raw processing software. If (according to her) she only had one wedding before ours at the end of the year... How did this take 11 months?
I don't think she deserves a good review, but I also don't think she cares at all about our wedding and us as clients - should I tell her I'm unhappy about the pictures before leaving the review or should I let it go completely?
Here you have some pictures, so you can see for yourself and tell me if I'm imagining things. (Sorry, family and husband won't let share pictures without covered faces)
TL;DR I'm unhappy about my wedding pictures but I'm not sure it's just me being picky or if they're genuinely bad and I'm unsure whether to tell her I don't like them/leave a bad review
4 pictures of the same moment (just 1 example) ?????? why? ???? ????????????? blurred pic of my siblings's heads cut off and family looking away the one picture of my friend's speech, with me covering most of my face with the bouquet and my husband awkwardly getting up we all have our eyes closed blurred out picture of us sitting down at ceremony but my face is cut off by someone else's head poor composition everybody with their eyes closed blurry, awkward faces she highlighted this picture of me reading the vows... while almost closing my eyes walking down the aisle, all the pictures are cropped to center me as if my husband doesn't matter there are 12 copies of this picture (miliseconds away) one of the only pictures of the reception blurry picture with poor composition (the only of these guests at the venue) awkward moment, pose and faces blurry with awkward faces why this picture of this moment? they danced for over 3 minutes, but only this picture shoes 1 shoes 2 shoes 3 (the only good shoes pic out of 13 shoes pics)Top Comment:
Alright, enough is enough.
Am I picky or are my wedding photos not great? (We were rushed for time)
Main Post: Am I picky or are my wedding photos not great? (We were rushed for time)
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Everything just looks a little unpolished.. like the lighting issues would bother me a lot. I wouldn’t say they are BAD, but it gives off vibes of someone who just started wedding photography. If you booked this person with the knowledge that they were experienced, I’d be upset too
What makes wedding photos look "timeless"?
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I cringe at the thought of spending thousands on wedding photos, only for them to look corny and dated in 10 years. I mean, in my case, what's done is done (already had my wedding and got my photos, and though I love them now I wonder how I will feel in a decade), so there's that. In general, what should someone who is shopping around for photographers look for if they want to avoid that, "Yuck, that is so 2023" feeling in the future?
Top Comment: Possibly an unpopular opinion but everything is going to look at least somewhat dated over time. I don't think I've ever seen a wedding photo from even 2010 or earlier where I can say "everything about this photo looks like it could have been taken today!" Everyone should pick what they like without worrying about how it'll be perceived in 5, 10, 20+ years. With that being said, here are some wedding trends that are relevant right now that will hint that the photo was taken in the early 2020s (and not to say any of these are bad, they're clearly trendy because they're popular!!): pampas grass, "the font," sepia-toned photos, trendy hairstyles like hair pearls, mismatched/patterned bridesmaids
Wedding photographers - How many photos do you take during a wedding?
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Roughly, if you are there for 12 hours including photos of the ceremony, rings, details, bridesmaids, groomsmen, speeches, dancing, cake cutting, candid etc.
How many photos do you take and roughly how many do you send to the couple?
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2500-3000. I like to keep it under 2K, but often fail to do so. I deliver 400 to 600.
Wedding photo disappointment : r/weddingplanning
Main Post: Wedding photo disappointment : r/weddingplanning
Wedding photographers of Reddit, what was your "they're not gonna last long" moment?
Main Post: Wedding photographers of Reddit, what was your "they're not gonna last long" moment?
Top Comment: I'm a videographer and the groom called me a couple days after the wedding. He wanted me to make sure I didn't include any footage of him checking out the women at the wedding.
What in the world do you do with all your wedding pictures?
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We got our wedding pictures back. They are all amazing. I don't think there are any of them that we hate and that is the problem. There are over 1,000 photos of the day. I imported them all into our Google Photos account. The wife wants to print them all out and I think printing 1,000 photos is beyond insane and we will never sit down and look through every single one of them. On the other hand I agree with her argument that if they're digital online they may disappear some day. We want to get a photo album from the photog but that only holds 300 photos so we're left with 700 that we're not sure what to do with.
Top Comment: You could get a digital picture frame or professional photo book made and do like collages and stuff
Cherish your wedding photos
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Today I have come to the conclusion that we will not be receiving our wedding photos from our photographer. Long story short, we are being ghosted and filing complaints with our bank and the state but I just can’t believe this is happening. It’s so strange for photographers to go through engagement shoots, multiple meetings, drive 2 hours there and back to the venue, shoot for 7 hours and work really hard and then not deliver the final product.
Lesson learned - unless you know them REALLY well, don’t go with a less experienced photographer. I wanted to find someone young who was just starting out and was talented, and it backfired big time. She didn’t have many reviews but the ones that she did have were good, and our experience felt good the day of, so you never know. I feel like I let my husband, our families and our maybe future children down. I know it’s not that dramatic but today, that’s how it feels.
I guess all I’m saying is cherish the photos you have because I only have about 5 from the day that family took, none of which people are looking at the camera and none of which include either of our families. I’m sad.
Top Comment: No advice, just holding space for you ❤️ so sorry to hear. That is extremely disappointing & sad & all the emotions. I know this won’t replace the actual photos from the wedding day, but hoping you & partner might consider getting dressed up again on your 1 year anniversary and getting photos.