The Challenges of a Good Wedding Photographer

The wedding photographer has become almost as essential a feature of a regular wedding as the clergyman and bridesmaids. It is hard to imagine that at one time only the wealthy had their weddings photographed. Over the last twenty years the traditional wedding photographer has faced competition from the wedding video maker, but if people thought this profession was going to join the list of extinct trades, they have been proved wrong.

Despite the obvious attractions of having your wedding filmed on video and saved as a CD, the demand for the old-fashioned wedding photographer is still going as strong as ever. Many wedding photography businesses have realized the potential threat from video cameras and now offer a combined wedding video, CD and regular photography package.

A number of factors explain the continuing strength of wedding photography in the face of all this hi-tech competition. Tradition certainly plays a part in ensuring that demand for the wedding photographer remains strong. Just as your parents and grandparents had their weddings photographed, you also want to follow in their footsteps and put together a wedding album that will give you and your children pleasure for years to come. While you need to use a video recorder to view a video, or a CD player for a CD, there remains something special about a collection of wedding photos you can thumb through any time you want, and arrange and re-arrange in albums to meet your fancy without any need for an electronic intermediary.

The skill involved in wedding photography should not be underestimated. Although the introduction of digital photography would seem on the surface to have made it possible for everyone to get excellent photographic results without any professional training, in truth it is not so simple.

First of all there is more to good wedding photography than the technical side of working the camera, it is also important to have a strong sense of what is going to be a good photograph and make sure that you are in the right place at the right time, for example, missing the placing the ring on the finger or blurring this photograph would be unforgivable.

While many professional wedding photographers now also bring digital cameras with them, they still often prefer to use traditional cameras with the aperture and distance settings for that extra touch of quality they claim these cameras help them deliver. Bringing a number of cameras along with them is also a good way of making sure that if there is a technical problem with one camera they can quickly switch to another one and so make sure those important snaps are never missed.

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