Weddings by Chris Sherburne Photography
Before hiring a wedding photographer I always recommend that brides and grooms take a look around the web and understand the difference in the main styles of wedding photography. Become an educated consumer. If you don't know what you want, then how can any wedding photographer or vendor give it to you? If you don't know, then they don't know, and that's the recipe for a wedding disaster. Remember, this is your wedding and you want your pictures to look the way you want them to look. The question is "do you know what you want?" In general you could break wedding photography into a few "popular" styles like traditional, portrait or photojournalism.
Weddings by Chris Sherburne Photography
After looking around the web for a few hours and coming up with some example for me to look at, most brides will say that they want their wedding images to be taken in the photojournalism style. Most brides don't want old fashioned portraits taken and they don't want cliché pictures either. However, there's another style of wedding photography that's popping its head up and becoming very trendy – posed photojournalism. Huh? Do those words even go together? Yep. As Doug Gordon would jokingly say, "that's an oxymoron". Well, he's right – it is. However, it's also what most brides want and they don't even know it. Here's why.
Weddings by Chris Sherburne Photography
Posed photojournalism makes life easier for the bride and groom, makes the pictures better, and gives you the wedding pictures you've dreamed of since you were a little girl. Most brides and grooms aren't professional models and have no experience posing in front of the camera. How can you be expected to know how to pose for your wedding pictures? It's simple – you can't. It takes practice (that'll be another posting on why practice or "engagement" pictures are taken). By getting together with a photographer who's playful and fun and who'll do anything to get you great wedding pictures, you'll be on the right path to great images. Your wedding photographer should be there to help you and make sure that your pictures turn out perfect. Your job is to look beautiful, be happy, and get married. My job is to document your wedding day and make sure that you look your best while I'm doing it.
Weddings by Chris Sherburne Photography
You don't need to worry about the little things – like is your hand in the right position or do you have a hair out of place. Or, is your gown beautifully spread out and your delicate veil showing? By watching carefully before the picture is taken and fixing or "posing" anything that will improve your wedding picture, you'll have much better wedding images. Remember, by practicing "posed photojournalism" with your wedding photographer (on your practice engagement shoot), you can relax on your wedding day and be sure your images will look real and flow naturally. You'll think they came right out of "The Knot". Ah, perfection.