How to outsource your wedding photography

Question #3: Do you do your own editing or do you outsource?

Dave: Great question. I’m a proponent of “I’m a photographer, not a graphic designer”. I used to be a graphic designer, but I don’t want to be at the computer for three or four days a week because I spent one day shooting so I outsource. So I make my selections with my hard drive and mail them down to my editor who’s based in the St. Catherine’s area, and she turns them around in three to four business days. So I have my jpegs posted online two weeks after the wedding without two to three days of editing.

Taylor: I think the volume of weddings we’re shooting this year are far too extreme to even attempt to think about editing yourself, and even when I try to sit down and edit, I notice I get distracted. I’m an advocate of shipping something out whenever you can and focusing on your business – you’re getting paid to shoot.

Dave: I think too often photographers think they can only shoot a certain amount of weddings because they can only edit a certain amount of photos – which I think is pretty backwards. I think if you can shoot twice as much and edit less as much, do it.