How To Avoid 3 Wedding Photography Rip-Offs!

Rip-Off #1: UNBELIEVABLY LOW PRICE.
To some degree, all of us are attracted by low price because we want to work within a budget. But some wedding photographers use prices as the bait for their false and misleading advertising. They offer a cheap price – usually between $500 and $700—and then, once you are in their office looking through the proofs from the wedding they pressure you into buying additional photographs not in the package deal for a substantial increase in cost. It’s as if you were buying a car and found out that the dealer was charging you extra for the tires and the steering wheel. Professional photography is not as cheap as some unethical photographers would like you to believe.
Rip-Off #2: BAIT AND SWITCH.
Wedding photography package deals often offer combinations of sizes of photographs at one fixed price to reduce the cost and frustration of ordering photographs “a la carte”. Unfortunately, unethical wedding photographers often use package deals as a bait-and-switch technique. Here’s how it is done: First, they “bait” you with a basic wedding package at an unbelievable low price. Then, when you are in their office viewing the proofs after the wedding day, they try and “switch” you to a more expensive package. If you don’t fall for their switch and choose their basic service, you’ll likely receive poorly processed or cheaply protective coated photographs and they will high pressure you and not guarantee their photographs.
Rip-Off #3: UNSUPPORTED CLAIMS LIKE
 “Digital Cameras Take Better Photographs Than Professional Cameras”. With the widespread availability of new technologies to take photographs at low cost some non-photograph experts claim that these digitally captured moments look better than the more expensive professional photographs. The fact is that professional cameras, film and lighting techniques produce far better quality photographs, sharper, more brilliant, better contrast, ability to note details in cake or dress design, etc, regardless of the final size of the print. Digital cameras are better than they were just a couple of years ago. You need to know that your photographer has the skill to produce the clarity, color, depth or sharpness when using digital. There is no doubt that the quality of the professional photograph far exceeds any of the amateur cameras or most consumer and amateur digital technologies.

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