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Documentary Wedding Photography

In our last article we looked at the traditional wedding photography style and saw that this classic form is methodical and it is a way for the photo-artist to control elements of an image in order to convey a logical flow of the wedding day. Its purpose is so that the interaction between the photos and people after the fact, will keep intact the actual emotional interaction of the wedding day itself.

Documentary photography differs from the classical style in that the documentary form is a close up view of the wedding over a timeline.  It is a picture by picture, frame by frame, way of documenting the wedding day story. You capture what has taken place from one point in time to another including events within "documenting the event."

The importance of the documentary style of wedding photography is the objectiveness of the photos.  In other words the photographer’s intent on your wedding day is to candidly capture the true and actual events of the day as they occur.

The one obvious problem with this type of photography is that the actual events of the day are captured and retold from the perspective of the photo-artist. Since perspectives change from one person to another the interpretation of the photos will not be the same for everyone.

But that is ok if what you desire from your wedding photos is a view of the day, one candid moment by candid moment without specificity to the whole wedding day story. Each interaction with one of the photos will impress a unique feeling upon the photo viewer one photo shot at a time. The photo shots as a collective whole will allow for a blend of each feeling and a unique interpretation of your wedding from person to person.

Documentary wedding photography is the historical capturing of your wedding. It is a style that can be quite compelling and a unique perspective of your wedding day.

Until next time - Michelle Noel www.michellenoelphoto.com

Traditional Wedding Photography

  

Traditional wedding photography is posed and planned photography. It is also called a classic style because it is the oldest and the most common. The main goal and benefit of the traditional style is for a portrait type of album or portraits themselves. 

The history of wedding photography stretches back to the year 1826 with the French inventor Joseph Nicéphore Niépce who pioneered photography and has taken some of the oldest known photographs. Continuing in the practice of this early photography which was passed down from generation to generation, traditional wedding photography is a format of photography that is methodical in it's form. 

Thinking in terms of a checklist, (or a numbered list) traditional wedding photography provides the photographer a great deal of control in setting up the specific poses. The ability to control elements of an image allows the photographer to convey a logical flow of the wedding day so that the interaction between the photos and people after the fact, will keep intact the actual emotional interaction of the wedding day itself.

It is a very powerful way of conveying facts both methodically and accurately, as the events of the day occur, posed to the spirit of the bride and groom.

That concept where you take the bride and groom’s desire for the photographic retelling of their wedding day is critical. It is encompassed in the precepts of traditional wedding photography. It starts with making an assessment before hand of how, when, where, and with whom the days photos should be with, which paramount if you want to be able to engage in real form future photograph viewers with the wedding day.

Traditional wedding photography is powerful in recounting, in a very realistic way, the beauty of the wedding day. Traditional wedding photography captures the bride and groom’s love for one another through a formatted pictorial translation of the wedding event

Until Next Time, Michelle Noel www.michellenoelphoto.com                                                             

                                                                                           

                                          

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