Wedding Photography FAQ

Your wedding photography shouldn’t depend on finding a last-minute replacement. If your photographer has an unexpected emergency, we have another Images by Daniel Michael photographer already on call for your wedding day.

Your backup photographer isn’t a freelancer we’ve never worked with. They’ve been part of our team for at least two years and have completed our training and certification process, so they understand our approach, photography style, posing, lighting, timeline management, and expectations.

That preparation helps ensure you receive the consistent experience and photography style you chose, even if the unexpected happens.

With today’s technology, there should be multiple safeguards protecting your wedding photos. Here’s how we protect yours from the moment they’re captured:

• Two copies in-camera: Our professional cameras use dual memory card slots, recording every photo to two cards simultaneously—not simply using the second card for overflow.
• Cards are separated immediately: When coverage ends, one memory card is removed and kept separately with the photographer.
• Studio server backup: Back at the studio, your photos are copied to our multi-drive server with built-in redundancy, allowing multiple drive failures without losing your images.
• Off-site copy: Another copy is stored on an external drive that leaves the studio with the photographer.
• Cloud backup: Your images are then uploaded to secure cloud storage for another layer of protection.

Since transitioning to digital photography, we have never lost wedding photos. It’s a behind-the-scenes process you may never see, but it’s an important part of protecting memories you can’t recreate.

Since professional cameras began offering dual memory card recording, we haven’t experienced this issue. We've always used the second card as a duplicate and have never had both cards fail or become corrupted at the same time.

In the unlikely event that both cards were affected, there are advanced recovery tools designed to retrieve data from damaged or corrupted memory cards. We have an IT professional on staff with the specialized software and technical knowledge needed to recover files.

Combined with recording every image to two cards from the moment it’s captured, this gives your wedding photos another important layer of protection.

We’ve been photographing weddings professionally since 1999.

We blend a Film Based approach to Traditional, Editorial and Photojournalistic photography to document your day in a timeless manor. We then add a touch of Vintage, Fine Art, Light & Bright, Dark & Moody according to your vision for your day.

When we are taking portraits our teams give direction and orchestrate your day. When we are at the Ceremony or Reception we should barely be noticed if at all.

Cannon, Nikon or Sony.  More importantly, we use primarily full frame professional grade cameras and lenses.  

All photos are captured in RAW format to allow for the best possible editing and are converted to JPEG afterward for ease of use for you.

Yes! We have a comprehensive wedding photography shot list of the standard moments, family combinations, and details we typically capture. We’ll send it to you before your planning meeting so you can review it ahead of time.

Rather than creating a long list of every photo you want, focus on anything unique to you that isn’t already on our list—special people, meaningful details, traditions, or specific photo ideas. This helps ensure your most important requests don’t get buried in a lengthy checklist.

During your personal planning meeting, we’ll build your final shot list together, combining our experience with your priorities and special requests. That way, you can enjoy your wedding day knowing we have a clear plan for the moments and people that matter most to you.

Of course we can.  However, this is a bit of an outdated request with all of the available online reviews such as The Knot, Wedding Wire,  and Google. Any photographer's list of references will surely include nothing but extremely satisfied couples.  At least with online reviews they have much less control over it.

We are always flexible to make a payment plan.  If not, out standard payments are three payments (30% deposit, 50% month of wedding, 20% photo pick up).

Reservation Fees are non refundable but can be used as a credit toward a future date or other photography needs.  There are no rebooking fees unless you move to a prime Saturday (May, June, September, October). Off season discounts do not apply to a new in season date.

Yes.

No. Though many photographers do include the tax it is not legal to do so. According to Ohio state sales tax law, photography is considered a service with the intent to sell product and is subject to sales tax on 100% of the package amount. To include sales tax requires a special permit intended for street vendors and such.