Questions and Answers
How do I contact
you?
Email me. weddings@bonnerphotographic.com
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Call me. 712.266.3133
Who are you?
I'm
Brad Bonner and I'm passionate about wedding photography. I've been shooting weddings professionally now since 2002. I produce great looking pictures while being terribly easy to work with. Best of all I believe that you should have the right to use your photos anyway you like without limitations.
What does this mean? I photograph your wedding, edit your photos, and
deliver them to you in a digital format. This allows you to do
anything you would like with your images. You have my full
permission to make as many copies or prints as you like, to use them
for Christmas cards, thank yous, or whatever else you may desire.
Cut
to the chase, how much is this going to cost me?
My creative fee to photograph your wedding is a flat $2,250. This includes 5 hours of professional photography, all of your images retouched and ready to print, PLUS all of your retouched images delivered to you along with a copyright release. Additional hours of coverage are available at a rate of $125/hr. Tax and travel costs are the only other required costs. If you would like a professionally-designed album, or prints, enlargements, coffee mugs (eeeek), canvases, or whatever for you, I'm here for you. Extras are À la carte and are therefore completely optional. No copyright fees. No luggage fees. No high pressure upsells. No MSG. No worries.
Download the Wedding Agreement [PDF]
Where
are you located out of?
As a location photographer I am not tied to a physical studio. I
live in Denison, Iowa, but I shoot weddings
worldwide.
No, seriously. I love to travel -- it's kind of an addiction. I have traveled as far as Costa Rica and as close as 2 blocks. I am available for weddings anywhere in the world.
If you are going to have a destination wedding, please use coupon code COOLWEDDINGPLACE. Need not be tropical to apply.
Are they copyrighted? Technically yes. Every time you, me, anyone, clicks a shutter that image is protected by US copyright laws. BUT, good news, I'm the one who owns the copyright and I want to give you most all of my rights in those images. I grant to you a nonexclusive right to use the images anyway you like for personal use. Download the Wedding Agreement [PDF] and scroll to the bottom of the second page to see what I am talking about. Too many lawyers in the world I tell you. Do we really get all of our images? Yes. Your wedding day is the happiest day of your life. I am honored to be there to capture the emotion, laughter, passion and joy of the day. But those aren't my memories, they're yours. That is why I believe that you should have the right to do whatever you see fit with your memories afterwards. At the end of our time together I will get straight to work in my digital darkroom where I will hand correct each image for color, composition and artistic interpretation. I will then create for you a DVD or CDs with all of your final images. |
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So these images are low
resolution files?
No.
That would be silly. These are full resolution images ready
to be printed, played with, screen-savered, emailed, christmas carded
and traded like senior pictures.
What about albums, can I make my own? Can you just make me one?
You bet. I can produce a crazy-awesome album for you. Prices depend on what you want and start at $300 and go up from there.
For those DIY'ers out there, I think Inkubook and Blurb do a good job.
You know, I've just never been a big fan of packages. I capture memories, one frame at a time. That's just what I do. I have a base ($2250 for 5 hours) plus hourly rate ($125/hr after first 5hrs) and travel expenses ($0.48/mi) to get me there and home. Everything else is optional and À la carte.
Where can I find examples of your work?
My entire portfolio is digital, so what you see on here is what I have delivered to clients. Want to see more?
How
about Here (full wedding)
or Here (sample)
or Here (full
wedding),
And in case you wanted to see some non-wedding work I have done, Project 365 was fun. Project 365 went from January 23, 2007 through January 22, 2008. I took an image a day and posted it to a blog. There are a few wedding examples on there too. Click here or here or here. I also am enjoying being a part of the SeeVida Project photographers. Which aims to have photographers from around the world contributing daily photos.
How long does it take to
get our images?
Every wedding I do is as unique as the couple who invites me to share their day with them. I take great pride in my work and strive to make every image memorable. After your wedding day, it will take me approximately four to eight weeks to give your images the time and attention that they deserve. If it is going to be longer for some reason, I will let you know. I try to aim for a month though.
Sign me up. Where can I find a wedding agreement?
Right here [PDF]. You will need a copy of Acrobat Reader or Foxit to view and fill in the agreement. The only information that has to be filled out on the agreement to reserve your date is, well, the date of your wedding and preferrably the name of the bride and groom. The rest is just details and can change as you much as you like. Though its a little weird if you change the name of bride or groom after booking.
There is a $500 (plus tax) non-refundable retainer to reserve your date. This retainer will be applied to your total price.
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You will still get all your images to use
as you want, just like your wedding! See how easy I am to get along
with. 
