Choosing the right photography style to suit your wedding Picture THIS @christianchr1s TRADITIONAL This style typically follows a formal route, where the images are all posed and the editing is kept pretty standardise. They’re the sort of pictures you’d recognise from your mum’s wedding album. These things stay classic for a reason, and you can’t argue with a traditional wedding photo. They stand the test of time, and you still get to see all of those lovely faces from your special day. These sorts of photos go hand-in-hand with black and white ones in a similar traditional format. Clean, classic, timeless. It would be very easy to sit here and say, ’a picture is a picture, why do I need to care about the different styles’, but in this approach, we lose the magic of photography. If you and I took a picture of the same thing – yes, the subject would remain the same, but the style would differ completely! Mine might be more slap-dash and yours may be artistic. The same applies to wedding photography – what one artist views as improper, the other will see opportunity and vice versa. There are countless different types of photography, but for the sake of this feature, I have broken them down into the current most popular types: traditional, dark and moody/ flash photography, documentary/photojournalistic, light and airy, and fine art. @nate_dumlao DARK AND MOODY/ FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY This style is something we are seeing more of in the wedding world; it celebrates the dark and allows that shine as a definitive feature. These styles are ones you see more of in autumn weddings and I love the ethereal feel they often bring. This photo style is, admittedly, quite dramatic but who wouldn’t be on their special day? The flash photography is a spin-off of the dark and moody vibe and utilises the flash from a camera to light the image. We can thank the comeback kid, digital cameras, for this being in fashion again. People are loving the vintage feel this gives an image, especially if it’s paired with the classic date and time in the bottom corner. PHOTOGRAPHY 37
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