Practical Photography

When putting costs together for a photography job a lot of people think I charge a lot per hour or per day but that is because they assume that once the shoot is over the work is done

I’ve recently been doing a few wedding photography shoots and most people think my prices are expensive but once they shop around they usually come back as really my costs are very reasonable and I have sympathy for people who get ripped off by photographers who do a 200% mark up on prints.

I take a deposit up front and the rest of the payment is on completion, this is not the end of the day when I go home but after I have gone through the images and edited the best.

People often don’t realise that the shoot is the best part and depending on the imagesyou can spend days editing the images to make them ready for print.

You may argue that a good photographer can take a good photograph and it won’t need editing and that is true to an extent. But most images will need some editing and most portraits or wedding images need a little bit of work so the bride looks flawless for her keepsake of her special day.

And of course Black and white photography is back in fashion and using digital photography you can do this quite easily but it still takes work to make it look as good as possible.