Our wedding planning is starting to ramp up. Most recently, we’ve been interviewing photographers. We investigated quite a number of possibilities on the web, and chose 3 that we knew we wanted to interview (including one who we watched work (or tried to) at the wedding of two friends).
Our last interview was Tuesday evening. While the next task of comparing apples to oranges, to a Farbergé egg is still before us, I felt good about getting the interview process behind us.
On the way home on Tuesday, Chiara mentioned that a friend (and coworker) had mentioned a friend of hers who “takes beautiful pictures, and might be more economical, since they’ve only been doing it for 4 or 5 years.” My thought on that was, “Well, yes, I suppose it wouldn’t hurt to take a look at their webs—wow!”
Go ahead, look for yourself. Spend some time exploring it a bit. I’ll be here when you get back.
There are a few facets of these photos that grab me. They are heavily weighted toward candids, and the energy in them is wonderful. Even the posed portraits are interesting, and don’t feel forced or contrived. They also have a modern style without that “hipster-(too-)cool, full-of-yourself” (sneering) veneer that we both find so off-putting. We’d been looking at more traditional photographers specifically because we didn’t want anything to do with that. They also have elements that were common to everyone with whom we spoke.
In spite of what Alexa said, they’re not all that inexpensive. (Though their packages tend to include more, so they may end up being economical.) But they do get major kudos for being up-front enough to put package pricing on the web. (Though -20pts for the “page” that’s just one big image, and -10 extra for the horizontal scrolling (which would probably be 10 or 20 more if I didn’t have two-finger scrolling on my MBP). It just occurred to me that the “one big image” page could be a way to make sure it doesn’t get indexed. Still, points off.)
So, we’re setting up another interview. If you told me that on Tuesday, I would have accepted it with a weary acquiescence. But I devoured that site, I loved the feel of it. Without realizing it, I looked up and realized I was 17 pages in. I’m actually excited to talk to them, and see if they’re the best choice.
Our last interview was Tuesday evening. While the next task of comparing apples to oranges, to a Farbergé egg is still before us, I felt good about getting the interview process behind us.
On the way home on Tuesday, Chiara mentioned that a friend (and coworker) had mentioned a friend of hers who “takes beautiful pictures, and might be more economical, since they’ve only been doing it for 4 or 5 years.” My thought on that was, “Well, yes, I suppose it wouldn’t hurt to take a look at their webs—wow!”
Go ahead, look for yourself. Spend some time exploring it a bit. I’ll be here when you get back.
There are a few facets of these photos that grab me. They are heavily weighted toward candids, and the energy in them is wonderful. Even the posed portraits are interesting, and don’t feel forced or contrived. They also have a modern style without that “hipster-(too-)cool, full-of-yourself” (sneering) veneer that we both find so off-putting. We’d been looking at more traditional photographers specifically because we didn’t want anything to do with that. They also have elements that were common to everyone with whom we spoke.
In spite of what Alexa said, they’re not all that inexpensive. (Though their packages tend to include more, so they may end up being economical.) But they do get major kudos for being up-front enough to put package pricing on the web. (Though -20pts for the “page” that’s just one big image, and -10 extra for the horizontal scrolling (which would probably be 10 or 20 more if I didn’t have two-finger scrolling on my MBP). It just occurred to me that the “one big image” page could be a way to make sure it doesn’t get indexed. Still, points off.)
So, we’re setting up another interview. If you told me that on Tuesday, I would have accepted it with a weary acquiescence. But I devoured that site, I loved the feel of it. Without realizing it, I looked up and realized I was 17 pages in. I’m actually excited to talk to them, and see if they’re the best choice.
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