Salt Lake City Wedding

April 25, 2009 | Filed Under daniel, photography, wedding photography | 2 Comments 

Jefra and I finished shooting our second wedding yesterday! It was a beautiful wedding in Salt Lake City at temple square. It was a great day to get married, especially because the spring flowers were in full bloom. These are a couple of my favorites from yesterday.

they were bridals we shot

April 9, 2009 | Filed Under Photo, bride, cake, headshots, jefra, photography, wedding photography | 1 Comment 

i’m not a person of many words. so here are the pictures.

a few from tonight

March 31, 2009 | Filed Under Photo, bride, jefra, photography, wedding photography | Leave a Comment 

daniel’s back in town!!! yippie!! we had fun shooting some bridals tonight.

Wedding Photography Styles

February 27, 2009 | Filed Under bride, daniel, photography, wedding photography | 4 Comments 

There’s many different photography styles a bride can choose from, and being a photographer, you sometimes have to pick one of them to present to your potential clients. Here’s a rough breakdown of all the different types of photography that are current in today’s wedding photography culture:

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?

Black and White Wedding Portraits

February 25, 2009 | Filed Under bride, photography, wedding photography | 2 Comments 

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 :-)