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Please keep in mind, part of the reason you are hiring us, is that you love the aesthetic of our images and video. When couples ask us this question, we feel like it's often come from some checklist suggested by a wedding publication, and often they don't understand exactly what they are requesting. With video we don't release raw footage for several reasons. First of all, we shoot with multiple cameras and we sync the footage from the various camera angles in post. We shoot mostly in SLOG or FLOG which means that the footage is truly "raw" files with zero color-grading, contrast, or exposure adjustments. Below is a screen grab from a raw video file so that this makes more sense. We also capture most of the audio separately, requiring the audio files to be synced with the footage in post. Third, it wouldn't really be fair to our couples who have paid for a collection which included doc edits of things like the speeches. Finally, we're just not comfortable with this kind of footage being out there without our post production adjustments and would never want someone else's edit of work to be represented as our brand.
Honestly, it’s hard to say before the event because we don’t make those choices until we are in post production after the wedding. There is a misconception that you can make any photo look good just by making it b+w, but that is definitely not the case. Some images just BEG for a black and white edit. While others (like where the background is very busy/distracting), don’t work as well in monochrome.
If we had to put an actual number to the percentage of B+W images you’ll receive in your final gallery, we’d say it’ll be between 10% and 30% depending on how your big day unfolds.
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