How to Choose an Event Photographer
Booking a photographer for a company event is a different job from booking one for a wedding or a portrait. You're buying usable assets on a deadline, often for press and social media.
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Booking a photographer for a company event is a different job from booking one for a wedding or a portrait. You're buying usable assets on a deadline, often for press and social media.
A good brief is the difference between a gallery full of nice pictures and a gallery full of pictures you can actually use. It doesn't need to be long, ten minutes of thought before the day will do more for your results than anything else.
Event photographs have a short shelf life. The window where they're genuinely useful, while the event is still being talked about, is often measured in hours, not weeks. That's why turnaround is worth as much attention as the photography itself.
Booking a photographer for a conference, AGM or PR event is very different from booking one for a wedding — and knowing what good coverage looks like makes it far easier to choose well. Here's what a professional event photographer actually does, and what to expect on the day.
I feel lucky to have been invited to this fabulous event at The Bramall hall at University of Birmingham to hear Lord Bilamoria speak about the success of the Commonwealth games held here in Birmingham 2022.