You’re  looking for affordable wedding photography.  But in the back of your mind you know that anyone can wander into a highstreet supermarket and come out £30 lighter with a camera with a gazzillion megapixels.

So why do wedding photographers charge so much?

Its fair to say that few people when asked to be the official photographer at a friends wedding relish the idea.  Even fewer do it – often getting cold feet at the very last minute, when its too late to get a professional in.

Why won’t my mate do it?

The reason is to do with the responsibility. 

Imagine if your best friends were relying on you to take stunning photographs of their wedding.  Suddenly the £30 camera doesn’t seem so good.  And even a £1,000 camera is only as good as the photographer behind it.

Not only that, but taking wedding photographs under pressure from hungry relatives is not like taking a few snaps at the family barbeque.

Whats different about a Professional Photographer?

Professional photographers don’t chance their reputations on less-than-superb state-of-the-art cameras and lenses.  They will have invested £1,000′s, probably tens of £1,000′s in the right equipment.

And its not just the camera(s) on the day (yep, they’ll have at least one backup aswell).  Back at their studio, they will have expensive imaging software, very fast PCs or iMacs, Terrabytes of online or offline storage, Backup Systems and a probably a contracted IT company too.  Just in case.

After the day

Where a friend might just give you the SD card from the camera (try not to lose/erase it on honeymoon), your Professional takes away many Gigabytes of images, makes at least one set of duplicate original files and then spends days and days post-producing them.  He’ll make all sorts of tweaks and adjustments, so that your final images are simply stunning.  Like something from the pages of a glossy magazine.

Pro-Training – really?

Years of photography means professionals have great experience and ability.  Ability to photograph and get great shots in difficult locations.  In poor light.  In pouring rain whilst calmly controlling a crowd.

Yet even if they’ve been a ‘pro’ for 20 or 30 years, only the complacent avoid ongoing training and refresher events.  This kind of training helps a photographer see outside the box, adding fresh new ideas to the tried-and-tested classics.  Training can easily cost over £500 a day.

… Come to think of it, not only do you do affordable wedding photography, but why is Professional Photography so cheap?