5 Ways You Should Trust Your Wedding Photographer

Congratulations!! You’ve chosen your wedding photographer and are busy planning exquisitely beautiful wedding photographs. You’ve chosen them to create images that you’ll love, and you should trust them to do that! Why?

Because while you may have a vision of how you want some of your images to turn out, for the most part, they have experience that you don’t. They know how to create those beautiful wedding photographs.

If you trust your wedding photographer in these main areas, you’ll not only create better images for you to remember your big day, but you’ll also relieve yourself of some stress as well.

​1. Choosing the Location For Portraits

You wedding photographer will have taken the time to familiarize themselves with your reception location or areas around your ceremony site to find the best places to photograph, so they’ll know which locations get the best light and where the best scenery is. 

​2. Time of Day For Portraits

Lighting is key to creating beautiful images! Using the natural light of the sun will produce the best lighting setting, but that doesn’t mean any time of the day will give you the same results. Your wedding photographer will know what time of day will be best to take those gorgeous outdoor photographs that won’t leave harsh shadows on your face – or when to sneak outside to take some night inspired shots.

​3. Poses

Trust your wedding photographer to know what pose is the most flattering for you. They can see how the light is illuminating you and what is in the background. While some wedding photographers will take into consideration your picture ideas, you shouldn’t be offended if they shoot down your ideas. Most times you’ll be working with limited time and light and you don’t want to waste much of either on your big day.

​4. Editing Your Photos

Trust your wedding photographer’s creative eye during the editing process. They will know which images will look best in black and white, color, cropped and which ones to add special effects to, if any. Their editing process is a part of their style, and this is one of the reasons you hired them. Trust them to use their skills to make each image stunning.

​5. Printing Your Photos

Your wedding photographer knows where to get prints made and probably has a long-term relationship with a reputable printing company. Imagine selecting a stunning image and ordering a large print, then finding the colors are off, the image is blurred or it simply looks dull. Knowing where to get your prints made, what size they should be printed, and which ones will look best in your albums, wall art or thank you cards is one of the benefits of a professional wedding photographer. Trust them and listen to what they think will look best for what you want.

Catherine Gilmore is a Luxury Wedding Photographer in North Carolina serving the East Coast, the Carolinas & Destination weddings. Click here to view my wedding portfolio. Or contact me to chat about planning your upcoming wedding!