Jun 05
Boudoir photography has become a popular trend with brides who want to offer their ‘husbands-to-be’ a wedding day present which will they never forget. Generally associated with a woman’s bedroom, boudoir is a term which has been coined to describe a genre of glamour photography where sexuality is implied by showing women in a state of undress or wearing alluring lingerie.
Of course, photographing women in a state of partial undress is hardly a new phenomenon, but the boudoir trend has brought an air of respectability to what used to be considered a rather daring and controversial area of glamour portrait photography. Continue reading »
Tags: Boudoir, Wedding
Mar 30
Reportage Wedding Photography is still thought by many to be a recent trend in photography. In fact it has a long heritage and was often called candid photography in the context of a wedding. Seen by extreme traditionalists (a rare breed now) as a new fad, it was felt to threaten the supremacy of the medium format camera with its staged shots and posed set ups.
In the old style, photographers always had a big camera set up on a tripod and even a hood over the head of the photographer. This Very formal and very posed art of portraiture was born, like so many of today’s cultural norms, of technological limitations. Way back when, photographic technology required long exposure times, long winded plate or film changes and “keep still” poses. Fast 35 mm film basically solved this problem, again with certain limitations. Lighter cameras holding rolls meant that photojournalistic techniques could be applied to wedding photography. Continue reading »
Tags: Reportage, Wedding
Apr 21
When it comes to your wedding, no detail goes unnoticed; everything from the dress to the food to the flowers comes under careful scrutinizing as you work to create the wedding of your dreams. And when the day has passed and you are left with your memories of it, nothing helps to bring you back to that special day like the photographs bound into a keepsake album and available at any moment to whisk you back to the day you said “I do.” Modern brides and grooms, however, often will not settle for the traditional wedding photography that graced the weddings of yesteryear. Instead, today’s savvy couples expect creative wedding photography to capture their day. Continue reading »
Tags: advice, Wedding
Dec 05
Are you conscious of how much time should be save for your wedding portraits? For your photographer to do a good job, it perhaps more than you realize.
Usually, the photographs will begin at the Bride’s home before the ceremony. Here the photographer will take portraits of the Bride, her family and the bridal party. It is vital that your hair and make-up appointment is planned early enough so that you begin your photographs on time. Hair and makeup should be finished a minimum of one hour before you are planned to begin photographs. Allow time for travel, dressing and finding that lost pair of earrings. Continue reading »
Tags: Wedding
Boudoir photography has become a popular trend with brides who want to offer their ‘husbands-to-be’ a wedding day present which will they never forget. Generally associated with a woman’s bedroom, boudoir is a term which has been coined to describe a genre of glamour photography where sexuality is implied by showing women in a state of undress or wearing alluring lingerie.
