Freeland Photography has been in business since 1997.  Lead by Mike Freeland, owner and published photographer, we have photographed over a thousand weddings in the Kansas City area. 

Please check out our Real Wedding galleries to view our most recent work in its entirety.  These galleries can also server as a great tool when getting ideas for your wedding.

Pricing is an important part of the wedding planning process.   We have worked hard over the years trying to find price points that meet the needs and budgets of our clients.  By filling out our Wedding Photography Quote form, we will email you pricing information, and schedule a consultation to work out a package that fits your product and pricing needs. 

Looking for additional products?  Download our Wedding Catalog for information about our Albums, Books, Portraits, and additional services like Engagement and Rehearsal Dinner coverage. 

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We would never take any chances on your wedding, you shouldn't either.

Newbies in the wedding business can undercut our prices by having cheap lenses, and no backup equipment.  Many do not have a storefront or liability insurance, so good luck tracking them down if there is a problem.

Cheap plastic lenses warp on the edges.  Non Canon manufactured lenses may have nice glass, but do not autofocus precisely (which mean you cannot capture those split second moments)

We not only have the best equipment available on the market today, but have backup equipment of everything.  We are fully insured and have redundancy of equipment not only at your wedding but in our photography studio as well to insure nothing is ever lost.

Camera bodies:
Canon 5d Mark II
Canon 5d
Canon 7d
Canon 40d
Camera Lenses:
L series 15mm fisheye
L series 16-35mm wide angle
L series 28-70mm
L series 50mm 1.2 fixed focal length (low light)
L series 85mm 1.2 portrait (low light)
L series 70-200mm Telephoto Image Stabilization
50 1.4 Macro
Lighting:
580ex Flash
550ex Flash
Gary Fong Lightdome
Chimera Softbox
Dynalite 42” Umbrella
Photogenic 1500 watt
Powerlight
Photogenic 1000 watt
Powerlight
Accessories:
BG-E6 Battery Grip
BG-E4 Battery Grip
Canon Batteries
LP-E6 x6
BP511 x12
Sandisk Extreme Pro Compact Flash cards
Bogen Tripod with quick release head
Bogen carbon fiber monopod with quick release head
Ni cad lithium batteries 2800mah x 16
Tamrac photo bags
Pellican cases
NAS external backup Raid system with mirrored hardrives

Your wedding day is one that must be perfect.
These helpful tips are compiled from our 20 years of experience in the business.

Reputation.

With over 15 years full time in professional photography, most likely you have been referred to us by someone you know.  We strive to make every wedding we photograph the best wedding we have ever done.  Just because a photographer can hit the other 4 points below, doesn’t mean you will enjoy working with them. We have an easy going personality that will help you relax on your wedding day. Our professionalism means we work hard, but can abide by the rules set forth by your venue. We can get a list of requested photos prior to your Wedding day, if you like. This can be especially helpful for any family and friends that are not in the wedding party. We have had over 20 Real Weddings featured in KC Weddings Magazine and at theknot.com. Even though our work is displayed in magazines, as is nearly every wedding vendor in Kansas City, the bulk of our business is still word of mouth from our brides. We are proud to be the only photography studio voted by brides “Best of Weddings” at theknot.com three consecutive years.

Print Release.

Nearly every photographer will give you a disc of your wedding images these days. However, not all discs are the same. Many will be copy protected. Others will just be the low resolution versions of the full files. Some discs will play in a DVD player, like a movie, but not allow you to print or copy what is burned on them. At Freeland Photography we will not only give you the full resolution files of your finished Wedding images, we will also give you a print release that allows you to make copies of that disc or have photographs reprinted anywhere you like. Also, the “finished wedding images” means an Adobe Certified Retoucher Photoshops every image before they are burned on the disc you receive. This includes stray hairs, blemishes, color correction, etc.

Reliability.

The foundation of any photography studio is reliability. The amount of preparation, wedding day routines (everything from flash card storage to appropriate attire), and established protocol for downloading and storing your photos are essential to making sure the worse case scenario never happens. If anything goes wrong, you cannot redo your day. A wedding professional will have backup equipment of every camera, lens, and lighting gear with them at every event. In 2009 Freeland Photography installed a state of the art computer system that insures dual backups of every file. We also store a set of your images off site to ensure protection against fire. Because of all this rigorous criteria that we choose to follow, we have never lost a wedding. We have backup photographers that can be called to fill in under rare circumstances, like an illness.

Precision.

In today’s digital world many photographers rely too heavily on post production to fix their images. Anything other than perfect exposure (under or over exposure) will produce grainy images or blown highlights than cannot be recovered. Thanks to our extensive background in film, our expertise allows us to produce stunning images no matter what time of day or what season. We switched to full digital in 2005, and now have greater control over white balances than we did with film. We color correct for skin tones and strive for consistency in our whites, no matter the lighting (tungsten, fluorescent, shade, etc.) All of this knowledge and effort help us produce images of life like clarity. We pride ourselves in producing magazine quality images and we feel this is a direct reflection of our precision behind the camer.

Presence.

You want to make sure you hire someone that not only fits your personality, but knows the ins and outs of a wedding day. Capturing the day as it unfolds requires being in the right place at the right time. Only an experienced wedding day photographer can see these opportunities arise before they happen. At Freeland Photography we strive to capture the story of your day and seamlessly blend into the environment at the same time. Our photographers like to stay close at hand if needed, but not obtrusive. The best compliments we receive are those of friends and family that attend your wedding that comment they forgot we were even there.