FYI: What makes a professional wedding photographer?

Is there really any difference between one photographer and the next? With the growing popularity of digital SLR cameras it seems like everyone has one these days. Why can some charge huge wedding photographer prices while others are shooting babies for free?

Experience, Skill and Style of the Professional Wedding Photographer

What sets the professional photographers apart are three seemingly simple things.

Experience could be measured in years (but, depending on desire and time-spent, could be less) but it shows more in the work of the photographer and how they handle difficult shooting situations.

Skill is acquired with experience and is what really sets the pro apart from the moms-with-a-camera. Having the ability to control every aspect of the photograph from exposure settings, to custom lighting to posing and beyond is what really shows the skill of a photographer. Professional photographers create photographs rather than happen upon them.

Style is the icing on the cake of a pro wedding photographer. Style is what sets one wedding photographer apart from the others. From an objective point of view, one professional’s style is not better or worse than the other. From a bride, with her own unique sense of beauty, style can, and should, make all the difference when choosing her photographer.

If you are sure that your photographer has both experience and skill, you can be confident that choosing a professional wedding photographer based upon style is a smart choice and will have a wonderful result.