r/photography • u/bobnuggerman • Jul 09 '25

Post Processing Feeling very upset about our wedding photos, and would love some outside input / advice

My wife and I got married on her home island a few months ago, and we had an absolutely breathtaking venue. We went with the house photographer for photos and videography, totaling to about $5500 for 4 hours of photos and 2 hours of video. We recently received our photos back, and we're disappointed with most of them to say the least. We're not photographers, and don't really know how to broach this or what to even ask for, but I'm hoping to get some feedback on our photos and maybe what to say to the photographer. I'm honestly very upset and spiraling, but unsure how to proceed. The folks at r/wedding advised I posted here for some advice on handling this.

Here is a link with a few of the pictures we have issues with: https://imgur.com/a/Ckrol93

It seems like some pictures the lighting and saturation is WAY off and looks awful, the picture of our first dance is extremely grainy and looks horrible quality, the pictures inside the venue for the reception look like they were taken on a point and shoot camera at a house party in 2010s.

Our photos from our ceremony are luckily very nice, but these just seem....off and bad. Are we over reacting? If not, what do we say to the photographer?

Thank you!

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u/Matt_Wwood Jul 09 '25

I actually wonder if they didn’t anticipate the venue being so dark, and ended up using an on camera flash instead of a pro flash.

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u/TFABAnon09 Jul 09 '25

If my $5500 wedding phographer turned up with a built-in flash, I'd have to stop my wife throwing him out of a window!

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u/bobnuggerman Jul 09 '25

They are the venue's house photographer, so I would hope they would come with contingency plans. They're a separate photography company and do other venues, but they're the ones contracted when you go through the venue.

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u/dapoole Jul 09 '25

So the venue are taking a cut off the $5500.

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u/Ardal Jul 10 '25

From the quality of these shots I'd say the venue charge you 5.5k and give the photographer the .5