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GREY’S ANATOMY
I must start by saying that I love Grey’s Anatomy! I even went on the ABC fan message boards…hahaha! That one scene…where Burke climbed into the hospital bed to comfort Cristina…gosh, my heart just melted…
WORK
Anyways, please indulge me by listening to my complaining about work just for 1 or 2 sentences. I’ve been having a rough time at work…at times it stinks…the long hours, the stress, sometimes the people. Okay, I’m done. 
VIDEOGRAPHER
SO…please take a look at this site if you ever have a chance~
Look under “Philosophy” and it’ll show you the diff btwn video, 8mm and 16mm. Then if you look under “Screening Room” they have samples of wedding films. I’ve been intrigued by Fifty Foot for so long now ever since I saw their work on this InStyle Weddings show featuring Scott Wolf’s wedding. I just love film…it looks amazing. The only problem with Fifty Foot is the price~ a decent package which includes sound and a good amount of footage is around $10k.
Does anyone know any good film videographers or just dang good videographers? =)
PHOTOGRAPHER
Geez…never knew it would be so difficult to find a photographer. I think Andy and I are just super picky!
Here are some of the must-haves for us:
- all digital
- want to be able to keep all digital hi-res files
- 2 or more shooters
- all printed proofs
- someone with a fine art or photojournalist background
- a photographer who can create an album that is a mix of traditional and graphically designed layouts
Doesn’t seem like too much to ask…right? I don’t know why it is taking us so long.
For those of you looking for a photographer…
We visited 11 different photographers and have been through soo many dang websites & reviews! Here are the photographers we’ve visited and/or considered. Click on any of the names if you’re interested and please let me know if you have qs! We wanted to keep photography around $10k. Most of these photographers have wide ranges of packages so budgets of all sizes can find what they’re looking for!
- Most likely going with Jenny!
- We were so impressed with her work! The website has good ones but she she’s got so much more in her studio! There’s also this CD that she put together that I wish I could share!
- Ira is probably our #2. He has a fine art background.
- The only thing we didn’t like were his albums – just the traditional one photo per page format.
- We almost went with Jim except that he was already set to sign someone up except he failed to mention that to us during our 1 hour meeting!
- He is really talented…but not a good businessperson. He should’ve told us that he was booked!
- This is Jim’s wife. She’s still in consideration since we really liked Jim’s work and he says they have the same style and albums.
- Paul is soo nice…but his packages are odd!
- He doesn’t like shooting with a 2nd photographer.
- He doesn’t let you choose the images for the album and the only photos he gives you are the ones in the album.
- He doesn’t give you any proofs…that was a deal breaker for us.
- Robert shot Brad & Jennifer’s wedding.
- We thought his work was pretty good but we didn’t click.
- Husband & wife duo.
- They only shoot in film and seemed pretty inflexible.
- They are from the purist school of thought – they don’t even like to crop their photos because then it compromises the integrity of the original shot.
- Husband & wife duo.
- They’re soo nice…such sweet people! They’re really flexible too!
- They’re on the lower end of pricing – I think $2k-$4k.
- We didn’t choose them because their photographic style wasn’t what we were looking for…but if anyone did fit someone’s style I’d highly recommend!
- This guy is funny! He’s pretty outrageous and would definitely keep you laughing the whole time.
- We liked his albums – very creative but then we got the feeling that he relied too much on after-editing tricks. Some people love it though and I did really like some of those “tricks” but he just wasn’t what we were looking for.
- We were turned off by how he suddenly became a high pressure salesperson at the end of our meeting!
- He was sorta stuffy and very traditional.
- He’s the type of guy you’d go for if you’re into the super posed and staged photos.
- Karen is supposedly the most published wedding photographer in the
- I think her pricing was mostly above $10k.
- Her albums were sorta boring.
- Celebrity wedding photographer – did photos for Hilary Swank, Christina Appelgate, many more.
- My buddy used him so please let me know if you’d like a more detailed review! Her photos turned out great!
Oh gosh, I realized there are soo many more on this list and not enough time to talk about each one. Hopefully this will be a good starting point for anyone who is beginning their search!
