I have dipped my feet into the river of wedding photography. It's something I never had any inclination to do, but it's one place you can make money doing photography so I gave it a chance. And now that I have gotten myself into it, I want to produce the best work I can.
Which to me means giving my customers more than just a book full of shiny posed photos. I want to tell the story of their wedding. I want my finished product to be a living fairy tale, filled with moments, funny and intimate and honest, all driven on by the narrative of the event.
Forget starchy posed pictures of the forced-smiling couple leaning over a huge wedding cake trying to look comfortable. I want to capture that moment they have when they think nobody is looking. Whether it's a glance or a conversation, it's real, and that matters to me. And the fact that I froze it in time will matter to them too, maybe not right away, but it will.
I want to capture the essence of what happened that day so that when the couple looks back years on down the road, the whole thing will come to life again in their minds. And what they will see when they look into their album are the real moments, not nice neat rows of relatives in fig-leaf poses.
When I tell couples about this kind of "photojournalistic" photography they instantly love it, and they all want it.
But then they get a really strange look on their faces and ask "Can we get SOME posed pictures? You know, for Grandma."
2 comments:
I'm going to hire you when I get remarried. At the rate my husband is going...should be soon.
I love your photographic style and if it were my wedding, I'd want you to capture the memories. M
p.s. You're crazy creative! (inside joke)
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