Photojournalistic Style vs. Traditional Style....
We offer just the right blend of both styles to really make your wedding
photos sizzle!
In today's world some people think of Traditional Style wedding photography
as old fashion, stale and stodgy. These people seem to favor what has
become known as Photojournalistic Style of wedding photo coverage.
It is a much looser style of wedding photo coverage than Traditional Style.
The trouble with Photojournalistic Style is that the photographers
who specialize in it by itself is that (in our humble opinion) it avoids
including the traditional properly posed group photos that are essential
to well balanced wedding coverage and good lighting techniques are avoided.
These same photographers appear to believe that it is it better to avoid
using flash whenever possible, relying instead on grainy fast b&w films
and the existing light that many times produce either really contrasty or
poorly lit, thin, washed-out photos .They also seem to think it is good to
avoid ever having their subjects looking anywhere in the general dirction
of the camera when the photo is taken. In my humble opinion, they take "candids"
to the unnecessary extreme in the hoity-toity name of "art".
With all that said, I do a modified photojournalistic style as to the type
of subject matter I capture during your wedding and reception and how I do
it. (I correct for what I feel "purists" are doing wrong.) I do lots of candids
and never let any good photo opportunity get by me without it being taken.
Unlike some pure photojournalists, I use my expertise, professional training
and skills to make sure that my photos are properly lit by softened flash,
(except for existing light photos during the actual ceremony and some for
flavor at the reception and outdoor photos), have great expressions, are
taken from the best possible camera angles and don't have strong ugly color
casts in them that photojournalists seem to get from relying on not using
flash to properly and adequately light their candid photos. (I was a full
time newspaper reporter-photographer in my late teens thru my early-to-mid-20's,
so I've been there, done that, too.) AND OUR PHOTOS SURE DON'T LOOK LIKE
AMATEUR SNAPSHOTS YOUR GUESTS HAVE TAKEN, WHERE THEY ARE POORLY LIT, DON'T
SHOW THE SUBJECTS' FACES, AND HAVE BAD COLOR CASTS... WHICH SEEMS TO BE TRUE
WITH WHAT I AM SEEING ON A LOT A OF PURE PHOTOJOURNALISTS WEBSITES NOWADAYS!
My solution to the problem of choosing a style to offer was solved by me
creating my own unique style that blends the best of both styles to give
you the looser style of candid coverage that's offered by a photojournalistic
style during the ceremony and reception, but combined with just the right
amount of traditionally posed group photos in about a 20 minute lightning-fast
group posing session either before or after the wedding. My style is by no
means self-taught, as I have studied under better than a dozen of the top
wedding photographers in the world throughout my wedding photography career,
that is now starting it's fifth decade.
When it comes to black and white photos, I can produce them from any photo
I take without having to use b&w film. This way, those who what a photo
in color can have it and those who want THAT SAME PHOTO in b&w can also
have it. (Pure photojournalists paint you in a corner on this as they can't
make color photos from b&w film!)
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