Matrimonio Costanza & Jorge ,El Pregon, Casablanca, Chile

Heres a little sneeky peeky....
What a great sunny warm day in the Casablanca Valley at El Pregon for this wonderful wedding. Jorge (The Groom) arrived bright and early complete with jacket, shoes and....ehhhh...better call to find out where your pants are !!!  OOOPS !!

Not completely shocked Costanza gets the pants story first hand....

Time to continue with the Bride Prep where Costanzas sister lends a helping hand

OK guys, pants on and get to the Church...EVERYONE IS WAITING !!

SEALING THE DEAL

Always an awaiting crowd for the brides of Chile

I love Mauricios vapture at the leaving end...Nice !

After the ceremony it was a quick greeting session then time to skoot back the 3km from the church to El Pregon to begin the cocktail. This little old church is over 70 years old and has some serious scars from the TEREMOTO but these add to its charm and history

After cocktails as the guests start to enter for dinner was a chance to catch the last of the days natural light and make some shots among the landscape of  this great location.

Mauricio catches the happy couple from another angle...the advantage of having Two photographers!

It's Dinner Time !!

 

Between bouts of the wild fun came moments like this...the way Costanza is looking at Jorge just says it all !!

Also consumed in the moment, Jorge seems almost unaware there are nearly 200 other people in the room

and without fail   the inevitable dance of the Marinos....but guys, youré not suposed to drop him  !!!

All The Single Ladies !!!!!!!

All the single gentlemen !!!!!!!

Nice Mauricio...this one gets my eyes full of tears with its little touch of Scotland !

and to end this quick preview off is a shot of me dragged into the crowd just before the guys attempted to pick me up with my cameras   YIKES  !!...thank goodness that didn't happen.. What a blast this wedding was.. Thanks Costanza and Jorge for a great day and one of the best steaks I have had in Chile !! I can't believe how well this shot turned out considering a guest took it with my 2nd camera after a couple of piscos ****("couple") *****     
 ...good job !!

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Fotografia de matrimonio en Chile para $220 dollars

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Wedding Photography in Chile for $220 Dollars

YES !!!! WOW !!!!!! WHAT A DEAL RIGHT?.......... WRONG!!

After being in chile for a little over two years now and probably stumbling across every wedding photo website here it never ceases to amaze me 2 things.

1. The standard of images accepted by clients from the average so called wedding photographer in Chile. 90% of weddings here are shot by weekend warriors..this is to say for example someone who is a wedding photographer only as a secondary source of income ie taxi driver monday to friday, wedding photographer saturday night...you may scoff, as did I when i first got here, but it is for real!. These photographers, and I use the word very lightly, generally pass the images to the client unedited or edited with no training, (A( in image editing, (B) no training in wedding photography and (C) no artistic skill whatsoever let alone an understanding of light and composition.

and..2. The unbelievable price war among the locals to see who can supply the most images and the cheapest price, regardless of how crap they are....and beyond this...the clients seem to keep coming back for more. This is a great way for the quality to stay low and the photographers to stay poor.


I recently attended the EXPO NOVIOS 2010 at Casa Piedra in Santiago where there was one so called photographer who had the most pittyfull display of images I have ever seen at an expo. I also witnessed some of the most over exposed images ever to land in a clients wedding album, yet...the public were massing to him and wallowing in his work. So, is this his fault for being CRAP...or the clients fault for not knowing good professional wedding photography?.
Now, there is an issue with the $220 dollar price tag. If a client is paying $220 bucks they should expect nothing greater than this guy was offering but it still escapes me, how on such a special day, when brides take so much care and pay so much attention to details that they miss such a huge hole in the photographic service of the day.

In the time before the internet I can understand people being a bit in the dark as to what's out there...but today...NO!

So why do people in Chile consistantly select 6th grade unqualified photographers to shoot there most important day...Is it price? is it the 600 images on disk and the 200 printed images for next to no cost? is it because they dont have internet and have never seen the work of real pro wedding photographers? or they just dont care?.

I wonder if in time it will change and clients will raise the bar here to eliminate the fly by night wannbees.

Next...

There are some rules in this industry that professional photographers, and video people tend to play within...one golden rule is never use, play or even imply the music "Beauty and the Beast" with anything to do with a couples wedding day..you know....there up dancing and on comes that song .... after watching about 17 videos on youtube today, all submissions by Chilean based wedding photographers and video production companies, to my horror. 2 videos using this as overlay music and one photographers slide show the same...I can only put it down to the song being sung in English and the editors just plain dont know whats being said. welcome to 1975 !

All said and done these things do frustrate me as I have to witness clients not getting the best on their one chance special day but I can only do so much. There are handfull of good quality production wedding photographers down here but only a handfull.

Shop carefully
Demand the best
and always always always ask to see some samples of previous LOCAL weddings.



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If you are in Chile or coming to Chile for your wedding I have now started my long and over promised resource site for connecting brides to good quality and reliable service providers for weddings in chile.
The link to the resourse site is

http://weddingphotochile.freeforums.org/index.php

at this time is does not contain data for all services but throughout the winter I will be adding to it as I search on your behalf.

Other service providers feel free to post your company. If I have heard any bad report (even 1) from clients in the past about your product or service your post will not be published. If I have worked with you at an event and did not find you to be professional or provide high quality product/service your post will not be published. Successfull posts will remain published until and be open to positive and negative feedback from clients after their event.


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Gardner Hamilton
www.weddingphotochile.com
info@weddingphotochile.com
Tel (0056-9) 9-992 9508
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2 Black Eyes , a Swimming Pool and a Portrait in the Gents Toilet

Well this week brought quite a variety to the table…..it all started off on Monday when I was doing my usual research to sourch anything photography in Chile. Scanning through the pages of related items in the hope to find a printing company that can hit the mark on my rather anal quality standards for printing I stumbled onto a photographer, who, for his own sake will remain without name. I could not believe that this person who markets themselve as a professional wedding photographer in santiago and throughout Chile has the main photo on the website as a self portrait, taken in a mirror in a gent toilet with a line of urinals in the background. I was a little surprized to say the least as I know things are different here but who in their right mind would hire someone who portraits themselves and their business in this way?...beyond my reasoning..

Friday night I received a disturbing message from Mauricio (2nd Camera man)..While on a location shoot in Villa Alemana he was approached by 4 young men or wannabe men, they procceded to try to rob him and hit him across the right eye with a bottle which thankfully never broke. Mauricio got more than his share of marks from fighting back and a corker of a black eye as a reminder of how shooting in the streets of Chile always brings a risk. As a sign of his professionalism he managed to keep posession of all his equipment…..Ive always said…stealing a camera from a tourist and stealling a camera from a photographer are 2 completely different things…..we bite back….with big teeth!! Ha ha ha…anyway Mauricio escaped with probably more damage to his pride than anything else and he lives to tell the tale and work yesterday at the poolside parcela wedding.

Eileen and Linus had planned carefully to ensure there day was very relaxed and felt like they were a part of the day with everyone involved rather than being the stars of the show. The beautiful parcela located just outside Villa Alemana was the perfect set. With a very natural and country feel to it, everyone was so relaxed and just totally kicked back. The swimming pool added a great element to the day….In the early stages it served to keep the younger kids amused but as the pisco started to flow it became a playground for all ages. Eileen had insisted that we (the photographers) brought our swimming outfits, which we actually did and had them in the truck, but the event was buzzing and there was too much going on for us to drop the cameras so we kept on working right through..

The 2nd black eye in this unusually titled post came during the wild and funkie dancing under the tents in the garden…with a sudden change in the music everyone stepped it up a notch including one young guest to the left of the bride who, in a very fast spin proceeded to catch the bride directly on the nose with her right fist. The bride held her feet and stayed standing but only just….what a smack!...i could not believe she did not go down. Within a few minutes, even after ice and cold towels etc etc…the swelling on the bridge of her nose and the blackening of here eye began…WHAT A WEEK !

Eileen is a real sweetheart and a trooper too…she got herself fixed up…a quick retouch of the makeup and party on…Linus, you’re a lucky man !

Next week 2 weddings in V Region…..Quillota and Concon one very informal and one very formal, back to back…

Watch this space…

Wedding Photographs 2009 Chile "My favorite moments"

Another year has passed and another really fun year . As a wedding photographer in Chile I have had a blast and can't wait to hit all the booked work for 2010 and meet some new people getting married in Chile. I put this little slide show together, not actually all the best shots but some of the shots that bring back some laughs and fun memories for me and some other moments that I remembered and enjoyed. It is a short 4 min video with great music from St Germain. Thanks to all my clients in 2009 both private and commercial. From everyone at Wedding Photo Chile,Photographers, editors and production assistants we wish you all the best for 2010. Suerte

Wedding Vina/Valpo

ok 8 hours sleep in 4 days and here i am ready to shoot again...This wedding was set in 2 awesome locations, Church on Salinas, Vina del mar and then the officers Naval Club in Valparaiso. Both locations were just beautiful, a great day and with full formal dress there will be some popping image coming out of this set or sure...I did a session with these guys on the beach...see posting from a couple of months ago...they were a little nervous and it payed off as they were great on the day...Only one image prepared just for the blog at this time...more later..i currently have 3 wedding sets and 1 commercial set of images to edit so i will be shckled to my MAC for the next 3 weeks.

Entering into the season

So 25th October and the wedding photo season has kicked into full swing. Wedding photographers all over CHile and no dobt the southern hemisphere are now recharging batteries friday and saturday nights until the end of May 2010.

I have finally take charge of someting I was never happy with in supplying wedding photography sevices in Santiago and in Vina del mar. Offering Clients wedding packages for their photographs. It seems so standard and boring. To me, a wedding is so unique and needs a unique approach and a unique construction to the format of the days photography. People are all so different and like different things, to try to provide a package to report such an event is really a comprimise on the part of the bride and groom.

So as of today I will take the details of each event based on what the client needs and wants, not what they can get for their buck. Through customising my wedding photography delivery I am convinced that the type of client I serve will have a greater satisfaction and also allowing me to work outwith the constraints of a package. Weddings require huge amounts of flexibility and adaptabillity on the behalf of the photographers. Packages are a ball and chain for all. Contact me for a sample price on your event. Below on this blog you can see a listing for free quote where you can fill out all your information to recieve a free quote on your wedding photography for events in Chile. for weddings in other countries please contact me directly through www.weddingphotochile.com
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