FAQ

Why Choose Us?

Candid & natural moments, American Luxury, Classic-chic, and Art Deco are my personal favorites. New York, Art Deco, Mid-century Modern, the city, urban landscapes, skylines, steel, exposed brick with plaster, and simple, minimalistic styles, and romantic 1930’s era houses are some elements I like to incorporate into my work. Listening to the ideas of my clients and incorporating your vision with my style is a great reward to create for you.

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What do you want your wedding pictures to convey about your relationship?

We want you to invest in only those professional and personable services that will benefit you and your family for years to come. We would love to meet with you, connect, and openly talk with you how we will navigate your wedding day and discuss your options based on your wedding wants. We realize each couple and wedding event is distinct and not like anyone elses. Choose us to guide you through your wedding day.

Our Mission, Your Benefit.

Peace-of-mind experience and heartfelt moments delivered.

My goal is to create the foundation for your pictures to be made through careful planning and to allow you to celebrate during your wedding day because you would not have to worry about your professional wedding photography coverage on your wedding day.

Professional Luxury wedding photography with a personalized customer service experience to deliver to you unique, elegant, timeless, expressive, and classic heirloom memories you will enjoy looking at with your loved one, share with your friends and family, and pass your family legacy to future generations.

Our exclusive approach

Professional wedding photography with a customer service approach is not for everyone. After all, you will invest more in David Baker Studios than other studios who offer basic services. Is a peace-of-mind experience to help you navigate through struggles that can ruin a wedding day important to you? After your wedding, your heartfelt memories (pictures) will be that one legacy you will be able to look back at, share with your friends and family, and pass on to your children as an heirloom to proudly remember family roots. Peace-of-mind and heartfelt memories delivered - this is my promise; this is what you will receive.

You prefer the professional who will take the time to learn and understand what is important to you on your wedding day. There is a lot required to successfully photograph you wedding day.

You like the idea of not rushing through your once-in-a-lifetime wedding day because you want to celebrate with your family and friends and have plenty of time for wedding day couple’s portraits.

You expect to receive pictures. Leave with a memorable experience. Contact us today!

Why Do We Implement a Customer Service Approach?

Wedding days are fast and very unpredictable. There is so much that must happen per the timeline. We are service providers who create the foundation for your pictures to be made. Our personable customer service approach to professional wedding photography puts an emphasis on creating a foundation for your beautiful, classic, timeless memories to be made when you have your wedding at a luxurious venue for you. Allow my team to help make your wedding day perfect!

I personally prefer the personalized  customer approach because I like to help people have a more relaxed and pleasurable experience. I do not like impersonal service. I don’t want to be treated as a number. I prefer personable and professional experience. If you prefer one-of-a-kind and creative works of art created on your wedding day and an expert guide leading you through your wedding day. Please read on:

During fast-paced wedding days, there is limited time to create high-quality pictures and there is no second chance after the moment has past. This is why we emphasize guiding you through your wedding day, through particular events, and we pose you into natural and candid appearing shapes (its not the pose we capture, its your interactions and personalities that are expressed between you and your soulmate that are captured!).

We will create a timeline together to ensure you have the necessary time to capture all of those important moments you value, all the while, creating enough time for you to enjoy your day, have peace-of-mind, and celebrate with your loved ones’ on your wedding day.

How does our customer service approach fulfill your unique wants?

We at David Baker Studios are more than photographers — we are expert guide’s that help you navigate your wedding day. I emphasize the importance of us sitting down to create a well thought out timeline because this sets the foundation for your pictures and important moments created during your wedding day. We are here to help guide you from the start of your wedding process to the end because we are expert guides who will help you through your entire wedding day. When you are guided through each particular event (e.g., first-look, group posing, cake cutting, etc…) and you will receive expert guidance as we pose you, provide suggestions for best pictures created you are free to follow, and help you through this emotional day.

Meetings to Connect, Plan, & Solidify Wedding Particulars

We meet with you at least twice. We believe it is our responsibility to help ensure you have enough time in your timeline so that you get all of those important wedding day family and wedding couple pictures. If your professional wedding planner and coordinator will create your timeline, we ask you include us in your timeline creation process before your timeline has been finalized because we need to make sure there is time for photo between and before certain moments, so we can create pictures consistent with all pictures you see on our website. Plus, having an extra eye on your wedding day timeline is a good idea - especially your wedding photographer!

Do you prefer non-posed, romantic, expressive, and comfortable looking pictures?

It is not the pose I photograph. It is your interactions and your personalities I capture. My posing method is to guide you through activities to create candid moments. If you prefer formal posing. I am familiar and experienced in editorial posing.

My artistic style is designing scenes where you feel comfortable and look natural during your wedding day — portraits that are tailored to fit your unique personalities. One of my specialty’s is creating moments through natural appearing poses I put you into that allow your unique personalities to shine through and seizing spontaneous and honest moments. I want my couple’s to appear natural and not posed, while creating expressive, romantic, and timeless moments.

If you prefer purely candid pictures and this is your personality type and that is what you want. Let’s do it! What does candid mean? Candid means you do what you are inspired to do, and I provide very little instruction. I may make suggestions or say “hey! his arm is blocking your face“. Other than that, after you told me you want candid, and I photograph that. That is what you’re getting. I will show you what I photographed to ensure what was captured is what you had in mind.

If you want a hybrid between candid and posed. Cool. Candid, in a way, if couple is not 100% comfortable doing candid, can take longer because if you prefer a little guidance. I can do that. I will guide you through prompts or provide suggestions to capture “candid“ moments, non-posed (100% guided).

Do you prefer quick and short wedding-day couple photo session?

If you prefer to spend the most time possible during your wedding day visiting with your friends and family. We have the solution: abbreviated wedding-day photo sessions. These are available. Let us know during your planning meetings, so, we can prepare for ourselves and we need to provide you with special information to enable us to move quickly.

Wedding Checklist Before Your Wedding Day.

We can imagine how overwhelming it must be to plan your large, modern luxury wedding. Our peace-of-mind customer service promise includes a short what-to-expect guide that will be sent to you before your wedding day. This guide will generally touch on your entire wedding day, and what you can expect each event during your wedding day going like. We have discovered from our past wedding experiences that when everyone is familiar with the process, our past brides have enjoyed their wedding days more.

Bridal Party Getting-ready Routine:

During your getting-ready, you want to enjoy time with your bridesmaids and family, right? Enjoy each others company, enjoy drinks and food together, and be guided through your wedding day. We have the plan for a smooth and relaxing getting-ready process to help you feel great and look great in pictures!

  1. The Lead Photographer will enter room, greet everyone.

  2. Depending upon if makeup and hair is still happening, Lead may start with a few makeup pictures of the bride before makeup artist leaves because bride is the last to receive hair and makeup.

  3. Lead will capture any food, room decor, and getting-ready candids and any fun moments.

  4. Lead will photograph bride accessories, jewelry, and invitations; photograph dress and shoes; and any other details the bride wants captured.

  5. When Bride and bridesmaids ready. Fun robe pictures will be photographed.

  6. This will be the time when bridal party changes into ceremony dresses. Any time bridal party changes, David or a man will step out of getting-ready space to provide privacy. After bridal party ready, David or a man will step back inside. We ask that bride’s dress be halfway closed in the back. If closed completely, we can guide whoever is closing dress to make their actions look realistic.

  7. Lead will guide bride and whoever is helping her with her dress through a short photo session showing the back of bride’s dress getting closed.

  8. If within timeline, bridal party will then have a ceremony-ready dress picture photo session with bouquets (if inside room).

  9. Bride may have a wedding-day bridal inside hotel room, inside hotel, inside their getting-ready location, at getting-ready location, or decide to have their bridal at ceremony location or a separate location on the way to the ceremony.

What Are We Like During Your Wedding Day?

As we guide you through your wedding day. We are personable, kind, respectful, hard-working, courteous, professional, and diligently work for you.

What I do specifically for you:

  • I guide my couples through the struggles of a wedding day because uncertainty and anxiety is uncomfortable. I realize your wedding day is an important financial and social investment. My guidance results in peace of mind experience and heartfelt pictures delivered. You will feel at ease knowing you are getting what you shared with me during your consultation meetings (Meet & Greet and General Overview & Planning & Timeline).

As a person, I am good at leading and helping others confidently and with empathy through difficult situations which require strategic problem solving during dynamic and fast-paced events. Yes, I may be a photographer. But that is not only how I define my identity. That is what I do. Much like the mechanic to their tools. The mechanic has the knowledge, experience, wisdom, and ability to use their tools to fix a car. My camera is a tool. Just as important as my camera is. A solid plan and timeline and understanding what you want to do during your wedding is just as important.

Lighting: Why is lighting important on your wedding day?

I am a lighting specialist. I create vibrant images that reveal your true essence no matter how dim the venue. Our two favorite Art Deco 1920’s wedding venues are Lawless Spirits (part of Crystal Ballroom) and The Astorian, in Houston, Texas, one of our favorites.

Using the right lighting on a sunny day will reduce shadows on your face and soften the background. The proper lighting of a chandelier at your wedding reception captures the elegant details as well as the glow of the individual bulbs. Your white wedding dress will not look yellow with the correct lighting. I adjust to every lighting challenge — even if the power goes out, I can still create natural-looking light.

Prefer Natural light during your wedding day? We have you covered!

We also specialize in photographing weddings in natural light. Our Rustic bride sometimes prefer this style. When we photograph you wedding natural light or without our off-camera flash. We may still flash on-camera during reception because in some locations, it can become very dark inside. You will still receive pictures that are consistent with the natural light style, i.e., more emphasis in natural light look and with help from particular lenses we would prefer to use during natural light weddings.

How Do We Dress When We Photograph?

Formally dressed to appear consistent with your traditional and classic luxury wedding, wedding party, and guests.

We Specialize in South Asian Weddings

We specialize in serving Indian (Hindu-Punjabi and Catholic) and Pakistani (Muslim and Ismaili) wedding couples.

  • We are familiar with your multi-day wedding events

  • The routine of your wedding events

  • Able to anticipate and get in position before an important moment may occur

  • Able to create inside your home for Mehndi or other pre-wedding events

  • Light ballrooms for Sangeet and Walima

  • Light stage setups

  • We are comfortable during a fast-paced South Asian wedding another professional wedding photographer may not be familiar with professional south asian wedding photography.

We wrote both of these blogs about professional South Asian Wedding Photo and Video in Houston:

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Camera and Photo Backup

We use two cameras each with dual card slots.

When we safely store and backup your digital files (wedding pictures). We follow a routine procedure to ensure your pictures are secure and that there are multiple redundant copies - one off-site in Cloud storage and (at least) two on-site copies on our hard drives.

We Arrive Before Your Coverage Time & Leave After Coverage End Time

We arrive before your wedding starts to setup and get familiar with location/wedding venue, so when coverage time officially begins, we are able to use your time effectively. Again…wedding days are FAST!!!

Why do we serve you with heirloom albums and wall art?

As you and your husband turn the pages in your heirloom album, together you will relive and be transported to that wonderful day and milestone in your lives together. Your heirloom album and wall art leaves a lasting legacy, great as a coffee table book, and allows future generations to understand their roots and bear witness to a monumental day in their family history.

What is Important to you on your Wedding day?

You prefer someone who will take the time to connect with you, learn and understand what is important to you on your wedding day.

What story will your wedding pictures tell about you?

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