Traditional, Digital and Contemporary Photography

Traditional photographers create wedding images that are mostly posed and scripted and where the photographer takes posed pictures of the entire family and/or bridal party together. Usually, high level of the intrusion is involved. Sometimes there is a great amount of frustration is also involved because of the artificial posing. Wedding Photography generally means informal photojournalism and photographers usually aim for catching original moments through candid shots from a distance.

Digital Wedding Photography is a form of contemporary photography that uses digital technology to make images of subjects. Until the advent of such technology, photography used photographic film to create images which could be made visible by photographic processing. By contrast, digital photographs can be displayed, printed, stored, manipulated, transmitted, and archived using digital and computer techniques, without chemical processing. Digital photography is one of several forms of digital imaging. Digital images are also created by non-photographic equipment such as computer tomography scanners and radio telescopes. Digital images can also be made by scanning conventional photographic images. The advantages of digital wedding photography faster post-production, negatives can be obtained in the form of a DVD or CD which don’t erode over the years. Digital photographs can be more easily posted online or sent via an email. They can be posted on Facebook or Myspace in 2 minutes. Generally, more wedding photos can be taken on the day of the wedding because it doesn’t use expensive film. Artistic Wedding Photography generally involves more post production to edit the photos to achieve artistic angles, blur, colors and lighting to create the WOW effect. This is the complete opposite to documentary wedding photography.

Wedding photojournalism (Florida and Miami is covered for free by Haring Photography) branches away from traditional photography and is becoming more and more popular in the wedding industry. It allows the day to pass by as usual while the photographer captures bridal pictures without any involvement in the composition of the photograph. Wedding photojournalism is originally derived from news photography, where the photographer captures an event like a watching bystander. Contact me if you are curious about Florida wedding photojournalism (Miami).

Documentary Photography The photographer attempts to produce objective, truthful, and usually candid photography of a particular subject, most often pictures of people. Documentary wedding photography is opposite to artistic wedding photography and it is correlated with informal wedding photojournalism. It mostly involves taking the pictures in a method to capture the day without any bias or modification. Documentary photographers generally concentrate on capturing the moment as it is. The images reflect the natural undisturbed activities of the day without artificial poses. The photographer documents the day in its natural flow. Emotions are more natural without acting.