Some of you may have notice in the market, there are some full time wedding photographers still charging around $600~$800 for a full day wedding, it also include album and CD. These photographers some are very senior, shooting for more than 20 over years.
how do they able to charge that kind of price and still survive?
It is very simple, they shoot like as if they are still shooting on film, the same way as if like $480 for 8 rolls.
they don't shoot fancy style, most of the shots the are couples or everyone posed and look at the camera, every shots say: "look here, 1, 2, 3, smile!" before they click the shutter.
everything is one shot one kill, if it is a bad shots, delete straight away. if have two or more same shots, also delete one shot straight away. except for group photos
they count every shots they take, will not take unnecessary shots, they don't run high and low, will not chase after the couple for some shots, every shots is shot at eye level.
they don't shoot raw, they nail the exposure, composition, focus spot on on every single take.
Once the shoot is over, all the images are downloaded in the computer, since they don't do post processing on all the images. just simply select 300 images and cut into a CD, the CD will pass to the lab to make prints, and pay a little money to ask the lab slot the photos into album, come back 3 days later they will have the album ready to be deliver.
Working in this way, they able to shoot weddings days after days after days, some records are 5 weddings in a row. can shoot 15 to 20 weddings in a peak seasons.
btw, the practice strictly 8 hours per wedding, additional hours, early hour or late hour are chargeable, so customers hardly as them to stay or more shots
they don't meet customer before wedding, no discussion or viewing portfolio. they just simply tell the customer "your wedding photo will be the same just like your friends' wedding photos" and this is what the customers exactly looking for " I want my wedding photos same like my friends".