For budget brides, finding a reasonably priced photographer who does good work can be a major challenge. One trick I recommend is searching for talented people who are just starting out in the business. But where to find them?
I recently had that discussion with a Weddingbee reader from the West Coast. Curious what her part of the country has to offer, I headed to Craigslist-LA and checked out the first event photography ad on the list. And I just happened to stumble across a promising photographer at a great price, so wanted to share him with anyone near Orange County who’s working within a budget.

Sebastian Ho is new to wedding photography, but his artistic eye and experimental use of light already elevate his photos a notch above the ordinary. And, for a limited time, he is offering introductory pricing at half off his normal fees.
His middle package of 8 hours wedding shooting, an engagement session, proofs, and a high-resolution DVD is just $1,000.



You can find Sebastian at Triple Eight Imaging.
Anyone else have a great budget photography resource to share?
You need to be REALLY careful when doing this. I found a videographer on craigslist who was just starting out (so he had below market rates), and his gallery of work on his website was amazing. But if it is too good to be true, it probably is. I realized that I’d seen one of his videos somewhere before - and I had. All of the videos in his gallery were stolen from YouTube. More on this later - but you need to be careful who you send a deposit to - maybe he wasn’t a videographer at all and it was just a scam - or maybe he was but his work must not be any where near as good as the work he stole - or else he would have posted his own. I emailed the people he stole it from - apparently this is very, very common and they’ve found their videos misclaimed by other artists over a dozen times!