My daughter will be wed July1 and is home for a few days making arrangements. One real issue is selecting a photographer. She interviewed two today who actually told her what she asked for is not what she will want - that having shot hundreds of weddings (they) knew better than she what to shoot, how to set and what to deliver. The second one handed her a sheet of 62 Set Shots that would 'make her storybook day a real 'Story Book'.
She wants an old-school shoot. The wedding is at a mid-19th C. Estate/Farm on the bluffs overlooking the Mississippi River. It will be outdoors with the river as the backdrop. Dressing will be in the house proper: dinner and dancing under a tent.
She just wants the line-ups, a few of the traditional set shots and the candids. No 'Price includes digital upload to Facebook'; no 'First Look'; nothing cute. It's as much about the historic house and setting as about the event.
What are the words she would use to filter out the 'Princess' salesmen and find the pros and who understand what she's looking for? How can she express what she wants without being rude and insulting?
Or do all the shooters take crap photos now, shop them with presets and have a Macro that builds a book?
Do I need a landscape shooter?
Last edited by monochrome; 10-15-2016 at 01:38 PM.