Photographers!

karen_newcastle

kaya wrote: »

the price is rediculous, friends got married and paid £1500 for photo's, to charge £100 per hour plus a few hundred on top for expenses is profiteering, i could understand the added costs before digital formats were in common use but nowdays they can take a thousand photos and pick the best few

You are extremely mis informed and way out with your judgement.

I am a wedding photographer and do charge £1500.00 (sometimes more sometimes less).

I calculated that each wedding takes me about 30 hours in total to 'work'. You then need to take off my petrol driving to venue visits and to the wedding, the cost of my insurance, meals etc not to mention having almost £10k worth of kit with me. Finally the album costs around £350. So I reckon I am earning SUBSTANTIALLY less than £100 an hour!!!! :eek: More like £25.00 an hour....is THAT too much to pay for a professional who can create some lasting memories of the most precious day of your life?

I do appreciate that £1500 maybe out the some peoples budget but I resent the idea that I am profiteering!

nearlyrich

kaya wrote: »

the price is rediculous, friends got married and paid £1500 for photo's, to charge £100 per hour plus a few hundred on top for expenses is profiteering, i could understand the added costs before digital formats were in common use but nowdays they can take a thousand photos and pick the best few

That is quite frankly a ridiculous statement, you don't have a clue what being a pro photographer entails do you?

I am not a pro photographer myself but I know several and they don't just turn up on the day and take thousands of shots and pick the best few.

Everyone has a budget for their wedding and some will spend thousands on a venue or on a dress or a photographer, people make decisions based on what is important to them. There are budget packages available from some photographers and some people get lucky with friends with decent cameras but the equipment is secondary a good photographer whether a pro or an amateur will capture something that someone just snapping probably won't.

OP congrats on the engagement and good luck in finding a photographer who fits with your financial expectations and your fiancee's picture expectations.;)