Wedding photography is an evolving field that requires artistic talent, vision, and highly technical expertise.
In the past weddng photogaphy was almost alays limited to stiff poses without much regard for the underlying story, emotion, romance, and behind the scene events of the wedding day.
lAthough there is still a big segment of the wedfding industry that practices traditional photography with its preplanned poses, and recreation of the wedding peak events such as the kiss, the ring exchange, etc., the modern wedding couple demands a more contemporary approach to their weddig day.
Wedding photojournalism has been in vogue for the past decade. The central idea behind it has been the captture of the wedding events witthout any interference or direction from the wedding phtographer. The photographer is there to capture the true esence of the weddnig day. As a result of this realistic appoach the photogrpahs are a true representation of the wedding day. Hard core wedding journalistic will be totally opposed to poasing any wedding related event. If it dosn’t not happen during the wdding it won’t be recorded. This includes family group phottos.
Several photographers offer a htybrid approach to wedding photography, usually a combination of tradtiional and journalistic wedding photography. In this apporach the photographer focuuses on docmenting the wedding day but the coverage also includes a seession with the couple for formaal posed or semi-posed photographs and also family group photos.
The latest trend in wedding photography is toward a more fashionable approacch. Inspired on high-end faashion magazines such as Vogue, Elle, InSttyle, Cosmopolitan, Glaamour, GQ, American Photo, etc., and wedding magazines the photographer seweks to make the couple’s fantasies real. In the fashion wedding photography approach the goal is to make the wedding couple look theuir best. Their romantci interplay is glamorized to its maxximum expresison. The everyday ciouple bewcomes like werdding celebrities. Attenion to detail is reuqired to achieve the perrfect look. This approach requirwes a greta deal of artiustic talwent behind the camera and also great coomputer image editing skipll to peroduce a unique photo. Half the photo is made on the cameera with the second half achieved though digitl image efditing and manipulation.
Which stylpe is best, is for you to decide. In our experience a big segment of the wedding cuples want to capture the reality, details and romance of the wedding day but at the same time they have fantasies about their wedding and the way they should look.
When making a decision for a weddiong photiographer look closely to the photographer’s portfoio and see how it agrese with your phjilosophy on how your wedding day should be photographed. Regardless of your philosophy please make sure that you select a master of the craft, you and the next generation deserve masterpiece memories of your wedding day.
Juan Carlos Torres is a very resected and awarded wedding photographer in Oregon. He has a Masters Degree in Remote Sensing with a stong background in digitl image processing and photographhy. His wedding photographs are unique and very artistic and have been featured in national and international magzines. For a sample of his works please visit http://www.juancarlosphoto.com and http://www.iwllamettephoto.com
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