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Santa Barbara & the Central Coast, California

Photography & Videography

In Santa Barbara & the Central Coast: The marine layer is the local technical problem, and it catches couples who book a sunset ceremony on the sand in May or June. Coastal fog can sit well into the afternoon, and the golden hour you pictured may simply not arrive that day. Ask any photographer you are considering how they shoot this coast in those months and what the plan is if the light does not break; the honest ones answer immediately, because they have had that day before. Expect $3,500 to $11,000. If your ceremony is at one end of the corridor and your portraits at the other, price the travel and the coverage hours it consumes rather than assuming both fit. Public beaches and parks here permit separately, so ask early who issues it.

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