I'm taking wedding photos on April 21st and was wondering if anyone has any tips, maybe something I havn't thought of yet. I'm also doing a bigger wedding in July.I took wedding photos for my friend as a wedding gift, but that was about 5 years ago. I did learn a few things, like going over a list of photos with the bride and groom, etc. Mostly I'm having a problem with pricing. I obviously am not charging as much as professional photographers, but I don't want to screw myself either. I figured I'd charge a price per roll for the film and developing and then a flat rate per hour. If anyone has any tips or ideas for the photos or preperation it'd be appreciated. Thanks!
i've got a wedding in may, i charge 400-500 for the day and 100 photos, plus since i work with digital SLR, i give them a free CD of all the pictures i took that day.
That is a great idea.... I need to get a digital camera.... well, a good one at least. This girl only wants a few pictures I come to find, I could technically fit them all on a 24 roll of film. But I guess what do you want when it's a fire hall wedding...man I hope that isn't just a Pennsylvania thing. I havn't done a wedding in so long that I decided to go really cheapo and cut her a break and call it practice for me, I'm charging her $20 per hour for my time and $15 for each roll of film-the roll itself and developing, she said she only needs me for 1 hour and only wants about 24 shots, I told her right off that since I use film I want to take at least three of each shot to ensure a better final picture. With that said I'll probably end up getting about $50 for me in the end, not the ideal, but again, it's more experiance, so thats ok. I have another wedding coming up in July, I will be doing the whole day, so I think I'm going to use your idea with the $400-500 for the day, I'll see how it works with this small wedding so I see how it'll all really work out. I think I kind of screwed myself, but I gave her a price off the top of my head, it sounded good at the time, then again, that woudl be me making $50 in one hour... I guess I can't complain.
