once again i had collected and got together an extensive list (70+ photographers!). some i had seen their work in blogs and some on yelp. i contacted all of them or most of them through email because their rates are not posted online and then began to eliminate them by price. Then i went back through the list again and went to the photographer's blog to see if i still connected with their style. i preferred photos with great uses of natural light, that were softer and lighter. then stephen went in and did the same thing. he preferred images that were not processed as much. after that we only had a handful we actually wanted to interview:
1. allyson wiley
2. anna and michael costa
3. bret cole
4. colson griffith
5. leila brewster
6. stephen hughes
one was immediately eliminated because she never contacted us after she went on vacation. i actually didnt even remember until just right now. of the five left, 2 were film photographers. I had actually sort of fallen in love with film photography. they produce images that are softer and lighter. two were not local so we tried to facetime which actually worked pretty well! google video however failed so one we only got to chat with on the phone. we eliminated one because she seemed a bit young, with less experience. we eliminated another because the albums he brought had some images that didnt seem good to us.
we narrowed down to two that we really thought hard about: one was film and the other digital. i think in the end we went with someone who was laidback, had enough experience, whose images were consistent, and who we could expect a level of quality we were comfortable with. he's also shot at our venue before so that was a plus. we had to think about whether we wanted a few great, awesome, "wow" images with some that were not focused properly or whether we wanted all our images to be good. in the end we decided with the latter.
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