How to Find the Right Engagement Photographer

Find Your Style

Most couples are hiring a professional photographer for the first time when they get engaged so it’s expected to not know what your style of photography is. The key is to take the time to understand what you’re looking for in your photographs then it makes recognizing the right photographer for you easy. A good place to start is Pinterest. You and your fiancé take 20 minutes out of your day to save engagement photos you like. Don’t overthink it, just save photos you have a positive reaction to. You can do this together or pin things separately then compare. Once you have this collection of photographs, review them more in-depth, and address what you like with the following styles in mind:

• Dramatic or Organic. Figuring out the overall look of the photographs you gravitate toward is the first step in knowing what type of photographer you should be keeping an eye out for. If you find that your Pinterest page is filled with engagement photos with a dramatic cityscape backdrop, couples dressed to the nines, and poses that are fit for a magazine. Then take the opportunity to be a supermodel couple and find a photographer that has Vogue style engagement photos. If you love the idea of taking photos set at your favorite park, in your date night clothes, and capturing genuine laughs then a lifestyle photographer that keeps things truly you is the way to go.
• Editing affects the entire look and mood of the photographs. If you get a group of photographers to take a single photograph of the same subject, at the same angle, with the same light then all of the photos will be somewhat the same. But if that group of photographers edit that single image they took, that’s when you’ll get drastically different photos. Editing is your photographer’s signature style and very important for you to recognize what style you like. These are examples of editing styles:

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