Do You Know Which Wedding Photography Style Fits You?
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I always tell my wedding photography clients, the three things you get to keep from your wedding day are your rings, your spouse and your wedding photos.
Everyone has different priorities when planning their wedding; whether it be venue (honestly ours), dress or food, photography should always break the top few items on your wedding planning to-do list. But how do you choose a wedding photographer, and how do you know which wedding photography style fits you best?
It can be hard to articulate what you’re looking for in a wedding photographer. Maybe you like the style of a certain already booked or out-of-budget photographer but you can’t describe what their photos look like? Or perhaps you’re a photo novice and you’re not quite sure which group you and your fiance fit into.
Fine art, reportage, editorial, documentary, cinematic, traditional – we make sense of all of these sometimes confusing and ambiguous wedding photography keywords and help you find which photography style fits you and your love the best!
Fine Art Film Wedding Photography
Wondering how to describe that dreamy, grainy, light and airy photography filling your Instagram feed lately? The best keywords to go hunting for your dreamy photographer is “Fine Art Wedding Photography” made so gorgeous thanks to being shot with film (or analog) cameras.
Fine Art Photography, or Film Photography, touts creamy textures, a fine grain that makes for crisp – super high resolution – portraits, and a slight desaturation. Thanks to the modern age, wedding photographers who have mastered this style (humble brag: like our own wedding photographer Corinne Graves) take photos on film, scan the negatives, and are able to edit the images further for flawless, heirloom style photos.
Generally, these coveted fine art film photographers come at a higher price tag. Not only because their technical talent deserves to be rewarded, but purchasing and developing film for your wedding can be costly for the photographer.
Candid Documentary Style Wedding Photography
Looking to ditch the bridal portraits and maximize your photographer’s wedding coverage with candid moments of you and your loved ones? Candid documentary style photographers capture real-life rather than poses, giving you those “magic moments” and make sure nothing looks staged. This is my (Claire Eliza) signature style!
There are a number of keywords to use to find such cinematic photographers: candid, free-spirited, documentary, photojournalistic, reportage and even “unposed”.
