Why should I get a videographer if I'm already having a photographer?
I'm on the fence about videography and need that extra push. Can you tell me why I should have both a photographer and a videographer at my wedding?
Cindy S
Question Asked: 10/05/2017
Wedding Date: 30/05/2018
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(12) · Brisbane, Sunshine Coast and Gold Coast, servicing all of South East Queensland.
Posted: 26/06/2026
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?? Photos are beautiful. But video? Video brings it all back.
You’ll hear the vows. See your partner’s reaction. Feel the speeches. The way your dad wipes his eye. The roar of the crowd when you walk in. That cheeky wink on the dance floor.
It’s not either/or—it’s two totally different kinds of memories.
Photos freeze the moment.
?? Video lets you relive it.
Years from now, when the day’s a blur, you’ll never regret having both.
While a photographer is certainly important to capture the still moments of your big day, a wedding videographer can offer a unique and dynamic way to relive your memories. A video allows you to hear your vows and speeches, see your first dance and witness all the emotions that make your day so special. A wedding video is an investment in preserving the memories of your day in a way that photographs simply can't.
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I made a video with the exact reasons why it is super important. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUqWniOnSB0&t=59s
A photographer captures light, whereas a cinewmatographer captures the story. Photographs only capture one point of view. Liken this to skipping through a magazine. you look at the picture, turn the page and continue. Whereas a wedding film tells you a story with music, audio, movement and life. As a photographer and cinematographer by trade, I love photography, but it never compares to film in the way it can tell a story.
Videos and photos are very different in what they show. I shoot video because I believe there's a certain magic in peoples movements and reactions that can't be shown in photos and I think that's very valuable and special.
(4) · Sydney, Blue Mountains, Southern Highlands & Illawarra Areas
Posted: 26/10/2018
Cindy here's a way of looking at it. I know the ladies in my family have been fanatical about the Royal Weddings over the past 6 months or so. Imagine if you only got to see the images in the magazines and not the coverage. If you were anything like my family, they were glued to the TV. Video is the only way to re-live an event.
Stills are great, and a definite must. But simply put, nothing will capture your special day as well as a high quality, professional video. Video captures emotion and spontenaity in a way photos don't. Thow in the music, the fact you can capture key moments of speeches and things like that, then it really is a no-brainer. Put it this way: a picture says a thousand words, a video will say a million.
we offer video and photos, but suggest couples to choose video over photos if they can only afford one of them. Video gives sound, catches much more emotions and gives a fuller representation of the day
Given that a good Cinematographer with the right camera can extract stills at the same resolution that most Photographers shoot - and print them and even frame them for you if you wanted - maybe we should be asking why we need Photographers when we can hire a Cinematographer!
But we kid! We love Photography! We just love Cinematography more!
Look, the main thing a couple should consider when trying to decide whether they should order a Video, as well as their Photos, are all those things we gain from Motion Pictures - specifically the Motion and the Sound! A still frame of your first dance will never invoke that same visceral emotional feeling that watching that dance will. Looking at a still frame, you'll never hear that subtle tremor in the Husband's voice as he gives his speech.
Photography is beautiful, but Video is the closest thing we have to capturing full experiences and the closest thing we have to reliving them.
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The honest answer is that they do two completely different jobs, and the one most couples underestimate is sound. A photo gives you that one perfect, frozen frame you can hang on the wall, but it can't give you your nan's laugh, the wobble in your partner's voice during the vows, or the line in your dad's speech that had the whole room in stitches. Once the day is over, those sounds are gone forever, and video is the only way to keep them.
The other thing I'd gently point out is that your wedding day genuinely does fly. You'll be present for about half of what happens, because you're busy living it. Video catches the moments you physically can't see: the guests arriving, your partner's face before you've even walked in, the quiet bits between the big moments. People tell us all the time that the film showed them their own day in a way they never got to experience while it was happening.
If budget is the sticking point, and for a lot of couples it is, you don't have to go all in on the longest coverage. Even a shorter highlight film covering the ceremony and speeches captures the parts you'll most want to relive. Whatever you book, ask who actually edits it. Everything we shoot is edited in-house by us here in Queensland, never sent offshore, so the film actually sounds and feels like your day rather than a template.
My practical tip: if you're truly on the fence, look at a few full films from any videographer before you decide, not just the thirty second teasers. A polished teaser is easy. A full film tells you whether they can hold the emotion of a whole day, and that's what you'll come back to in ten years.