First off, The more time you put into a photo don’t mean it’s gonna make the quality better. (I once took a picture of a rotten apple, days later it was still rotten.)   A good photo is taken at the moment of the wedding and post production should be used for a slight enhancement of that image. A great photographer is going to have great images and should take a little amount of time to produce final prints.  Okay photographers might be spending a bit more time in post correcting or searching for good images. Personally as I’m shooting, I know in my head about how many great images I have and can remember where they are in the card sequence.  So like I said before you can’t make an image better after the fact you’ve taken it, you can spend more time in post to try to make it look better but if you take it right the first time you should only have to make quick adjustments to it.

Second thing, Video vs Photos.   Videos should always take a bit more time to produce then photos because no matter what, you have to import them, and most of the time convert them, then wait for render times, every time you adjust something, color, edits, etc…  Remember your creating a motion picture to tell a story. You have to look though lots of footage and watch it. Where in a still image you know what looks bad the second you see it.   My example, a bridesmaids nipple pops out of her dress in the background :-)…. in a photo you will see that right away and can discard it, where in video you would have to scrub though the footage, then “if you notice it” you have to scrap the video or edit well enough that it’s gone. 

When all is said and done it really is up to the bride and groom what they think is good quality.  Me personally I could get an entire video edited in a day with color corrections and all that Jazz but thats because I work professionally as a post-production editor.  People naturally expect good photos or video to take “a long amount time” and time is money! I’d hate to have to charge someone 2,000 bucks and then say ohh by the way took us like 10 min to do this entire video. You could make them feel like they got ripped off, even if its an amazing video.   

How would you feel paying (me) a stranger $3,000 to make you something, and 10 min later I had it all done? Feel kinda ripped off, like that only took 10 min! and you could have done it yourself!

Congratulations Antonio Domingo!!! Verdaderamente me impresionaste. : )
Thanks for the post.