First of all, realize that you’re not alone. The fact that this question is on here means we’ve been asked this about arms by some huge percentage of clients. Kind of. Everybody hates their arms. Robin solely right. Using the veil to cover long hairstyles where your hair can be in front of your arms in pictures. Super handy. Um, I don’t want you to in your head about this, but you can. Part of it is just not squishing your arm up against your side. It’s like letting it hang more delicately. Also, whatever’s closest to the camera appears bigger, whereas what’s further away. So your photographer can totally pose you like this, and that makes a big difference. But it’s not going to be every single picture, and it’s not going to be every single picture that is. Candid the first place to start thinking about arms is with your dress. So if you try on your dress and you love everything about your dress but you’re like my arms, your photographer can only do so much. Start with your dress maker or your tailor, and if there’s some kind of overlay, there’s a lot of sleeve apparatus things that are happening these days. And get to where you like the way your arms look in the mirror at your dress fitting, or at least you don’t hate them. And then as a photographer, we will take it the rest of the way for.
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check out how Sal nailed it in this video and so did Megan in this one and Nichole told it straight (from her car).
Do you feel like the industry charges more “because it’s a wedding” and they know it’s an emotional purchase?
Do companies think that they can charge more for weddings since the bride and groom may be willing to spend more on their dream wedding?
Hey wedding pros – is this higher price tag justified? Why? Do you charge more for your service if it is a wedding?
This is a taboo topic, whispered but not discussed… until now.
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I have been asked this so many times... does the wedding industry inflate prices when they hear it's a wedding?
Here is my honest answer (as a former wedding photographer)... NO. Did I charge more for a wedding than a 50th birthday party or a family portrait session? Yes, absolutely. I charged A LOT more for a wedding.
Was I taking advantage of the emotional sell? Absolutely not.
The main reasons I charged more for a wedding were: the unseen amount of work involved in the 12+ months leading up to the wedding, the skill level needed on the day, the INTENSE pressure to create perfect "portfolio level work" no matter what the reality of the situation- but mostly it is to compensate for the time AFTER the wedding in post production.
Little known fact about wedding photography - the real job is sitting at a computer editing photos. Photographers spend many hours behind the computer carefully selecting and editing photos. They make adjustments, crop, and adjust colors to ensure each image it's best. Don't forget the time it takes for batching, renaming, importing, exporting and uploading the photos and preparing them for delivery.
Do you think this justifies why photographers charge more for weddings than for other types of shoots?
Couldn’t agree more! And on the videography side its an absolute ton of data + editing discipline.
Its a double sided coin- weddings are extremely high pressure but also high reward when we nail it.
Our products (photo video) in particular are the only thing that genuinely will last forever . Having fun and ALSO nailing the product is worth the price of entry and frankly more.