Kirk Tuck

I am a photographer in Austin, Texas. I create images of people for ad agencies, magazines and private commissions. My clients have included: IBM, Tivoli, Freescale, Time Warner, AMD, Texas Monthly Magazine, Elle Magazine, GSD&M, Hixo and many others. While practicing my skills for the pickiest clients in the world it dawned on me that the same skills would work for weddings. Let's talk.

I'm asked from time to time to shoot the weddings of my clients:  art directors, creative directors, marketing people and others who value a perfectly crafted image but value even more a calm, easy to work with professional who has years of experience doing this the hard way.  With digital cameras the whole wedding thing is a relative piece of cake.

I'm not inexpensive but in a year like this I'm inclined to be pretty flexible about budgets.  

As I researched wedding photography I discovered that right up to the 1960's most people just wanted a few beautifully crafted group shots, and bridal couple portraits. I think this will come back in to style.  In the near future we'll be hired to come in with the lights we use for fashion and annual reports and we'll offer you perfect group shots either before or after the wedding and then we'll pack up and go home. Most of your friends probably already have decent digital cameras and would love to take turns snapping at the reception and sharing the images with you.

But, if you are more modernly tranditional and would like hundreds or thousands of photographs getting dressed, dancing and generally standing around at a country club while people eat and drink, we can do that to.

But when it comes to monster budgets I would probably counsel you to save your money and invest in your future.  I'm happily married and have been for 23 years and I can count on one hand the number of times my wife and I have sat down and looked through our wedding album.

Don't take my word for it.  Ask other couples.  The keepers are these shots:

Giant group shot of wedding party,  family groups, bridesmaids, groomsmen, parents, bride and groom.  Everything else is window dressing.

We can make this painless for you and your parents.  Give me a ring and we'll talk.