Why hire a Photographer? Me or anyone else.

Yervant said something in a course recently that is absolutely true. We shoot they way we see the world. People can copy what we do, they can try to post process to get similar effects, but they'll never quite get it. Because no two people are the same. So yes, people can copy, but it'll just be a copy.

Cameras are advanced.  So advanced that they can set up shots, seek out people and even follow them around the room.   Anyone can take a wonderful shot.   Anyone can set up a 'canned' pose, you know, those poses that everyone wants at a wedding or portrait shoot. Like formals, the wedding party jumping, rings, details, candids, the flowers on the train, etc.. At the big store photo studios, it's close-up, head and shoulders, 3/4, full length, full length different angle, sitting looking behind you, 'connection' pose - looking away from the camera. Don't get me wrong, they look very nice and they sell.   But does it take talent to take them with the technology that's out there?  No, not really. The camera will do most of this work for you and when you can hit the shutter 100 times, at least one will turn out.

So why hire me or another photographer? Well you don't have to. Is it prestige?  'Ooh, I have Joe Buissink and paid $100,000 (my made up number) for him to shoot my wedding and he shoots film, and digital and movie stars, and aren't I rich and special.' Well maybe. But more than likely its because of his amazingly beautiful images, that's why the stars hire him.  Your cousin, armed with one of the new fancy cameras, might take nice images, but she or he won't take them the same as Joe.  Only Joe can shoot the world like Joe sees it.  Only Joe can put his emotion into his photos.  And only Joe can tell your story the way Joe does.  And people pay Joe very well for for that vision. Only Yervant can tell your story like Yervant.  Only Parish can tell a story like Parish. And only I can tell a story like me.

I see the world, like you see in my portfolio. So yes, that is the style you will get. All the time. That is what you pay me for, to tell the story and to interpret that story with photography. The way I see it. I shoot from my heart, how I feel at that moment. No one can copy me and I can't copy someone else, nor would I want to.

You hire a photographer for how they interpret your story.  How they can tell your story through film or pixels. Find a photographer whose story telling you love and you can't go wrong.   

No two people see the world the same. A machine can't duplicate the emotion, interpretation, and story telling that each photographer puts into an image.

Light is our paint, and the Camera is our brush.

With love and light, and, love of light,

G