Choose Your Wedding Day And Wedding Reception Photographer Carefully
Wedding photography has become much more creative over the last number of years. It used to be that you could identify the wedding photographer by the poses of the couples in the wedding day photographs. All that was changed it seemed was the couple- everything else was basically the same – the setting, pose, backgrounds etc etc.
In the new millennium things have certainly changed. Now, in addition to the ever traditional photographs many couples opt for a “journalistic” approach that capture the day’s unexpected special moments – such as when the best man’s toast brings tears to the bride’s father’s eyes or other spontaneous moments that will always be fondly remembered.
Although the trend in earlier times was almost exclusively toward color photos (black and white photographs seeming “old fashioned”), it now seems that a mixed approach is apparent, with black and white making a definite artistic comeback. Many couples now choose a combination of color and black and white photographs for their wedding day album. Black and white photos can even be hand tinted as a special touch and extra special emphasis.
It is important that when selecting a photographer, and whittling down your choices, that you look through as many samples of the photographers work as you possibly can. Bear in mind that any portfolio that is submitted for your review and consideration is a selling collection of the very best of that persons stock and trade –
in this case their ability to shoot outstanding photographic pictures. The collection that you are basing your valued choice on may consist of only 50 photographs out of a total of 10,000 that the artist may have shot over his career. That would count as only
