I tagged along with Jefra today as we took some photos of this beautiful utah bride. We went to the Springville Art Museum to shoot the bridals, which was an awesome place to take photos. These are a couple photos from the shoot today.

These are some photos from a Utah bridal session we did yesterday in Provo, Utah. It was snowing in the morning, but by the time we took these, it was sunny and semi-warm! It was a modern miracle.

I was going to put this up before but I got distracted by American Idol; it’s a collage of some of the utah brides I’ve photographed over the past few weddings I’ve done. Jefra and I have a few brides were going to photograph here in a few weeks. I can’t wait.

1. Photojournalistic – This style focuses on telling the story through photos, usually done in black and white, with the emphasis on telling the story of the bride and groom in a way a journalist would, but through photos, weaving the storyline of the bride and groom with pictures.

2. Vintage Style – This type of style is about creating the photos in the same way that was done in earlier periods of photography. Usually black and white with textured layers and textured borders as an allusion to vintage photographs. This type of photography is very much la mode du jour.

3. Traditional Black and White – This style is similar to photojournalistic style, but the emphasis is more on the creation of the photographs as independent works of art in and of themselves, portrayed through distinct tonal ranges. This lends a certain seriousness and solemnity to the subjects.

4. Modern – this style of photography is about saturated and vibrant colors, lens flare, out of focus shots, all in a way to capture creatively the subjects and wedding in a non-traditional way: new, colorful, bright, and with different compositions and framing.

5. Traditional – this style is a familiar format for the wedding photographer – very tried and true poses, bride in the center of the frame, everything lit correctly, no unique angles, maybe some soft blur on the bridal portraits with her hand on the chin. This type of style can become a cliche, so modern wedding photographers tend to avoid it, but traditional style is still the way the formal pictures are taken of the family and groups during the wedding.

5. Artistic Wedding photography – This type of photography combines many of the different styles I’ve gone over and uses them at the artit’s discretion. The photographer can use all the styles to paint a different canvas for the bride and groom, and they can sit back and enjoy the photographs as a unique representation of their wedding.

The different types of photography styles offer the bride and groom a chance to personalize their wedding day memories. Some brides are more artistic, and some are more traditional, it’s all just a matter of taste and what the couple would like for their day.

Now for the vote, which photography style do you prefer?
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I haven’t put these on our main portfolio site yet. Do you think we should add them?

I really enjoy the black and white photos I get to shoot, but sometimes it posses a dilemma. When do you pick the photos to be black and white and when do you choose them to be in color? I really like the bw photos because it tends to paint the mood a bit better in a documentary style, which is kinda the point when shooting a wedding; you’re really telling a story through photographs, the bride and groom’s story of their life together.

I’ll post tomorrow about different wedding styles, or different types of photographs you can get for your wedding, and we’ll put the different styles to a vote :-)

I took this awhile back with a holga camera. It was from my first roll, and now I don’t even know where I put the camera. I’ll have to get the holga back out and try a few more frames. Anyway, I thought I’d start posting some personal work on the blog. You know, for kicks.

Here’s some more Holga work from an engagement session I did awhile back. They loved the look the film gave the photos.

These few photos were taken at the Provo City Library, which is a great place to do engagement sessions.

I bought the holga from a guy named Randy at Holgamods.com, but from his website, it says Randy was in a car accident and isn’t taking any new orders. I hope he’s ok.

If you have a link of where to get a holga that’s been modified with interior flocking, link me.

This one’s an oldy but a goodie. I took this photo in Mapleton, Utah with a beautiful bride.