Hiring A Professional Photographer For Your Business

In today’s world, everyone and their granddad have a digital camera and with this prevalence of amateur Wedding Photographer NYC you could be asking yourself,” why would I even bother paying money to a professional for something I could do myself?” This is a very valid question…

I probably know better than most what a great, professional image can do for getting those all important phone calls. I see many new businesses making the mistake of saving a few quid on the overall branding and look of their business. Your business is made up from the adverts you take out or the brochures people pick up and this is how you get new clients, new business. You have to persuade someone who has never met you before to stop, look and make a note to come and see you all from a folded piece of A4 paper. Amateur photographs stand out a mile away and because they look like everyone else’s photographs they are easily ignored.

A great photograph on the front of your brochure/advert/poster will grab people’s attention and interest, holding it long enough to encourage them to read more and actually notice what you are selling.

We are constantly bombarded with advertising messages and with this over saturation we simply switch off. A good business woman knows that you need to switch potential customers back on; just getting them to notice is a huge step towards a sale. If you can make an impact in two seconds you are 75% of the way there.

We are visual. We see colors first, patterns second and thirdly, content. If something we see peaks our interest or tugs at our emotions, it is our natural instinct to check it out… we are a very curious species.

Using this knowledge, professional photographers create very emotional images with visual impact that will capture and hold your subjects attention for more than a second. It takes years to learn how to arrange and compose a well-lit, emotion filled photograph of the most mundane of objects; pro photographers have spent thousands on learning their craft from the best and also have the best equipment needed for any particular kind of job.

Accurate ratios, visual impact, leading lines, sharpness, colour contrast, dark/light field, emotional content, lighting ratios, zone markers, depth of field and many more things are going through a professional photographers mind during a shoot. A pro photographer will consider everything subconsciously and get exactly what their client is looking for.

Before hiring a professional photographer you need to ask yourself, “what should my business make others feel?” is it nostalgia, excitement, uniqueness? Finding your overall ‘feel’ is important as you need to marry both the images and text of your advertising and marketing materials together to create the brand of your company.