Photo Journalism Wedding Photography
Today's couple with its interest in style, fashion, and a contemporary look, demands wedding photography that is in tune with their image and lifestyle.
Couples are moving away from the traditional stiff, "posed" pictures in wedding albums and look for alternatives such as candid photos, black and whites and grainy photojournalism shots.
They are looking for a particular 'magazine type' of wedding photography...a style that is more contemporary and more relaxed.
Wedding photography now demands artistic talent, vision and technical expertise. It captures the story, the emotion and the marvelous candid behind the scenes events.
Photojournalism shots are more animated, and show groomsmen jumping for joy down the street, the bride and her flower girls dancing in the garden and guests singing up a storm at the reception. As a journalist captures and reports on the day's events, photojournalism photography communicates your modern wedding story.
Presentation is paramount. The traditional album with its few matted photos is no longer attractive to the modern couple. Wedding album companies now provide wedding photographers with modern artistic designs that compliment their artistic photography.
Flush Mount Magazine Style Albums
When properly designed, these wedding albums are a masterpiece. The photographer or the album company produce the album design using your wedding photos in a way that it tells the story of your beautiful wedding day. Once the photo pages are printed they are mounted on a rigid frame and trimmed flush to the edge of the page. The resulting book album is then covered in exquisite materials such as leather, silk, wood, cloth, or other fine contemporary products such as brushed metal. The best thing about this type of album is the control that the client and the photographer have on the design and style and allows the finer details of the wedding such as the wedding invitation, poems and other meaningful text to be included.
Coffee Table Style Albums
Coffee table style albums are very similar to the flush mount albums, however the main difference is the thickness of each page ... they are made up of thin pages and look like a modern magazine .
The inspiration behind the flush mount magazine style and coffee table albums are high-end fashion magazines. Photographers designing these types of albums require great artistic talent to take the photographs and to produce an album design that is classy, contemporary and elegant.
For the couple that prefers a more traditional look, achieve the best of both worlds by selecting a wedding photographer that combines traditional and journalistic photography...one that captures your wedding day story in 'Vogue' style, with a mix of formal and semi-formal poses.
Photographers design the album on a computer with the input of the couple to create a chronological design of the wedding day using different designs and photo arrangements. Once the design is finalised, album photos are digitally retouched to perfection and printed.
