Winkfotos
Company Name: Winkfotos
Address: Springville, UT 84663
Email: winkfotos@gmail.com
Phone: (435)313-1002
Years in Business: 2
Website: www.winkfotos.com
Blog: www.winkfotosblog.com
What first attracted you to work on weddings?
I love shooting all sorts of different events, but weddings are JUST more romantic. I am a sucker for love pictures and so that is my most favorite thing to photograph.
How did you get started?
I received my AA in photography many years ago working with film and in the dark room, but it wasn’t until my sister in law, who is a photographer, talked me into doing it as a business a few years later. I was married and we had a baby, and we were SO poor that I was willing to try anything to help pay the bills. I didn’t expect it to pick up so fast but it was and still is a huge blessing to me and my family.
Where do you get the inspiration for your work?
Honestly, I see it everywhere. Sometimes a commercial will come on TV that will pop ideas in my head. I love looking in any magazine at the photography and analyzing it, anywhere from billboards to posters, to viewing amazing photographers’ work that I admire.
What are the hottest trends in weddings right now?
Cute COLORED shoes for brides (no more white shoes these days), photo booths at receptions, more urban and crazy on location bridals and engagements, and mostly CANDID photojournalism that shows more feeling than posey perfect portraits.
Why would a client choose you over your competition?
Because my pictures are exploding with LOVE, emotion, and color. I give it my all, and I always become friends with my clients and try to really make them the focus of everything.
What is the best (most interesting, most inspiring) wedding experience you’ve ever had?
There are too many weddings to choose from. I always cry during the daddy daughter dances, I really have way too much fun with the wedding party pictures, and at the end of the day I’m EXHAUSTED with the good feeling of being a part of someone else’s most important day of their lives.
What is the most unusual (craziest, funniest) wedding experience you’ve ever had?
Hm I have had a few funny moments…one time I was taking pictures of a couple and a big group of people were watching me from behind when I accidently kicked my shoe off trying to demonstrate what I wanted the bride to do, and it flew about 15 feet OFF of my foot.
What was your most challenging wedding experience?
One time I didn’t bring an assistant for a huge wedding, and I will NEVER do it again! I had to haul ALL of my gear around, and I wasted tons of time setting things up and getting things ready. Lesson learned.
Describe your dream wedding experience (what you would most like to be hired to do / to create for a wedding)?
My dream wedding is photographing a small wedding on a beach on an overcast day in San Diego.
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When you work with the couple, what do you like to focus on? What is most important to you?
My most important task is to capture the realness of a couple’s personalities and chemistry.
After a wedding, how do you know that you have succeeded in your work? When are you most pleased and satisfied with your work?
I feel like I have succeeded when I walk away from a wedding knowing that I made friends, had a blast, and being excited to go home and look at all the pictures I have taken.
What is the best piece of advice you can offer a bride and groom on their wedding day?
Whatever you do, hire a good photographer. You get what you pay for, and the only things you walk away with from your wedding are 1-a new spouse 2- a new family 3- a wedding dress 4- your pictures. I have never heard anyone regret paying more for a professional photographer, but I have had PLENTY of people complain to me that they wished they had really beautiful pictures to look back at.
What did you do prior to your current work?
Stay at home mom…..well that also depends on how far back we go.
If you didn’t work on weddings for a living, what would you be doing instead?
I love the clinical side of athletic training. If I was not a stay at home mom I would LOVE to help people who have been in accidents or have injuries with muscle rehabilitation. Random huh?
What are some of your hobbies?
Volleyball (yes I still love to play), piano, I spent my younger years surfing the beaches in San Diego, and I really really want to learn how to restore furniture if time ever permits it.
Describe yourself – what makes you unique and interesting?
I am mostly a happy person. I am a monster in the mornings, and my kids to make me swear sometimes, but I love my life and I have learned that it’s too short to take too seriously.
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