As a photographer you shouldn't be saying "that's good enough, the customer won't know any better" you should be saying "there's a problem here, I need to work on it".


High end studio photography might well cost 40k (and higher for medium format digital), but a good high iso camera (like the Nikon D3), some good glass (looking at about 5k here) a few deflectors, a couple of flashes, a spare body and a couple of minimum wage workers definitely comes nowhere near that.

Are people really that happy with 4x6's? Don't you think they'd be happier with 8x12's?

Its not whether I'm happy. Its whether the customer is happy. Are you happy with your cable TV? Did you know that HD has been available for years now but it was too expensive to implement? Did you know that much much higher resolutions are already available? Will you pay extra for those if you wanted them? Yes.

Supply/demand will always drive quality when it comes to business. If I had customers that wanted high end, I'd invest in manpower, reflectors (which aren't too useful in pitch black unless you're reflecting flash), and extras. However, you very well know that having this many people and equipment pose a safety hazard in most real weddings, you know that I can't take perfect shots without being intrusive (which brides hate), I am limited in church pictures in using flash, moving about, and having people get in front. These are real weddings. Not studio/commercial stagings, where you can choose your light and pose. These people aren't magazine-trained. I can use better cameras, better light techniques, extra flashes if necessary, but this is not art. This is real life.

This post was edited by onepagememory on Nov 4 2009 03:12pm

I disagree with the part this is not art xD Photography is 100% art.