We get this question every now and then for a variety of reasons: *The couple is on a budget that doesn’t allow for our wedding package. *The couple is having a wedding elsewhere, and they want images made while they are in our area. *The couple doesn’t think their photographer can do a good enough…
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Excellent post Mark. I love that you always talk about subjects like this and post them for people to be educated about. You are RIGHT on about this yet again and I completely agree with you. I have had others work on display at a wedding I was shooting and it was extremely uncomfortable for me, knowing that people were most likely assuming that they were shot by me.
Thank you for this Mark! I always love the way you word your blog posts and most of them are issues I have as well. I haven’t really been in the situation where someone has asked me to do their portraits when I wasn’t the wedding photographer, but I very often have brides who have others take their engagements and it really is frustrating when they display them at the reception and people assume they are mine, even if the work is good! Your insight is always appreciated and I adore your work
I completely agree! Couldn’t have put it better myself!
Such a great and needed post Mark! Thank you, as that will help so much with explaining it to clients
I can totally relate to this, especially when I find a very large poster or a wall full of pictures of the couple that aren’t mine at the reception. And the worst part is that almost always the images had been taken by a “friend” and they look awful!! I recently saw a guestbook filled with photos that a “friend” took and I wanted to cry! The quality (of the photos and the book) was so low and it looked really, really, rEAlly cheap. Hello!! I do custom guestbooks and they are not so expensive! Arg! It’s just so frustrating
Nice post Mark, every now and then I do get this inquiry from brides too. I normally encourage them to stick with their wedding photographer.
Mark, a great message – and one that I completely agree with. I don’t shoot weddings, except as 2nd camera, but do get a few engagement and bridal session requests. I urge them to work with their wedding photographer, and mention most all the points that you do. I usually refuse to shoot, unless like recently, the couple was doing a beach wedding, and wouldn’t have time for their destination photographer to do engagements. Keep these great posts coming – you are doing a lot of good with these!
Excellent advice for a wedding photographer. Thanks for sharing.