Wedding photographer Cornwall
If you're looking to find an award winning wedding photographer based in Cornwall there are a number of signs to look out for that will separate wheat from chaff.
In our opinion heavy pushing of awards earned or national leader board statements as a sign of marketing the business over living the business of being a top wedding photographer Cornwall. If they are in the top 10 wedding photographers in the UK then as who said?! You'll be surprised to learn it's usually some opinion of a marketing exec who has little clout in the broader world of professional-grade photography.
Tip number 2! Once you've found a suitable selection of your favourite candidates, approach them requesting a zoom call, or similar easy first face to face meeting. You at the very least should share a similar sense of humour and what better way to find out than dropping some into your initial consultation. Once they've passed this test, the next request should be to view the last 4 weddings that they have photographed in Cornwall. In their entirity - every wedding photo they took at each event. Ask yourself is their consistency? Are they just repeating a formula or are they actually hunting that artistic coincidence? Do you feel good about this wedding photographer Cornwall?
Tip number 3. Boom. Does he watch the show Last Man on Earth on repeat? No? Then you know what to do! Next.
Tip number 4! Has this legend of a wedding photographer actually compleated a degree in photography? If not then that's not to say they aren't good. But it should reflect on their prices. Most Instagram celebrity photographers have risen to fame by working in link and comment farms back before instagram outlawed it. They would create underground networks of connected snappers posting images and commenting on each other's to boost the mundane into the explore page. Thus eventually having 17k - 120k likes and follows. Catapulting them into the who's who of Wedding photographers cornwall. You can spot these by their work looking almost too aspirational. Mountain scenes, helicopters, modern posing with little artistic coincidence. Stuff that a baby could capture given the same ingredients. Good looking couple, perfect light and landscape. Styling by a pro. I'd like to see them thrown into a castle with no window light, a fat couple wearing last decades bright blue paisley waist coat and walk away with a portfolio grade collection of the best photography out there.
Tip 5. Are they struggling with addiction, and can they spell? If the answer is no then they probably aren't the real deal. There is a science behind this but it's a whole other post! In short, they will have no empathy for human connection and are working from a cheat sheet of compositions and poses. Are inherent photographic eye is able to work on the fly and this comes from off the chart spacial awareness and that only comes at a cost of usually whatever they part of the brain is used to remember how to spell... The addiction is often down to fear, which is driven by heightened sensitivity to feelings and empathy which if not understood can lead to needing to disconnect. Think of the best artist, musician, athlete you can. £5 British pounds says they're an addict. That's not to say you'll be wasting your time going with a wedding photographer that's just none of the above but this article is for the brave, you only live once let's do this without fear, bride and groom. That couple needs to understand this.
Tip number god knows... go with your gut.
If COVID ever allows us to go back to the magnificent cornish weddings of the past just remember - hire a photographer that's obsessed with life, and love, and do not worry if they come across as awkward. The real ones aren't salespeople. They are brave artists.