3 Wedding Photography Styles With Descriptions for Couples To Understand
3 Wedding Photography Styles With Descriptions for Couples To Understand There are basically three major wedding photography styles that are common within the wedding industry. However, in today's world, it's easy for couples to get confused because sometimes terminology is often used interchangeably and (not intentionally) sometimes wedding professionals forget that couples don't always know those terms. As a couple you're probably thinking that all wedding photographY is the same in terms of style, but the truth is that there are different wedding photography styles. There are also different elements that can differentiate the styles I'm discussing which is where the terms "light&airy", "dark&moody", "double-exposure", and more come into play. After a few years of shooting weddings and being a part of a couples journey to becoming officially married, one of the most common statements made by couples is, "I get overwhelmed looking at these different photographers and I don't know the difference between a documentary-style photographer and a fine-art wedding photographer..." Does that sound familiar? For couples, choosing a wedding photographer that shoots in a style fit for that couple (what the couple likes) can be very confusing--at the end of the day it's important for couples to at the very least have some basic understanding of the different types of wedding photography styles that are out there to reduce this confusion and avoid as much overwhelm as possible.
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Video Transcript:
hello there so I'm here today with the
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question of the day and that is your
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couple planning your wedding you just
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got engaged and the first thing what one
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of the first thing that you're probably
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doing is you're looking at different
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wedding photographers you might even be
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looking at different wedding
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videographers which you should be and so
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you're searching the web maybe your
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friend is telling you about different
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you know oh I went to this person or
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this company whatever right and you're
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online you're getting all these amazing
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references and referrals but you're like
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I don't understand the different types
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of wedding photography styles this is
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very common so don't panic so I am here
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today to give you a quick description
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and outline of three common wedding
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photography styles now let me just say
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are there more than three absolutely but
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I wanted to focus on the ones that I one
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commonly here that I know and I was also
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able to give you guys some descriptions
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and some prime examples of photographers
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that fall within these different
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categories so as you know I'm always
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sharing my live videos so that is the
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intro if this is your first time tuning
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in this is unashamed imaging live where
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I go over different things majority I
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have to honestly say all of my content
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uses real weddings
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majority of them are mine so I have been
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doing this for said last year and I
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really enjoy it because I get questions
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all the time from couples whether it's a
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bride a couple as a whole etc and I'm
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able to help them along the way because
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who better to get advice from then
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someone who actually does
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the work right so let's get started so
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there are three common wedding
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photography styles so you have fine art
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you have like documentary photo
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journalistic and then you have lifestyle
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so those are the three that I'm going to
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be focusing on so basically in today's
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world it's easy for professionals to
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kind of talk about themselves because
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that's what we do you want to connect
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with you but we also talk about our art
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and sometimes we can't I would have to
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say that we're guilty of just saying oh
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I'm a fine art wedding photographer or
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I'm a documentary photographer and then
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you're like that's nice what does that
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mean so this live video is just going to
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break that down real quick for you guys
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like I said that's gonna be a quick one
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today for these different types of
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wedding photography my style so I hear a
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lot of couples say things like oh my
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gosh I'm looking around and all these
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photographers are great but like I say I
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don't know what she falls under or he or
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she falls under or their company falls
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under so let's start with the first one
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that I have here which is by one of my
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friends that I enjoyed lovely love
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loving looking at her work and that's
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joy Michelle photography and she is
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without a doubt 100% fine art whatever
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your whole style is fine art this is her
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artwork right here and if you click the
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link in the post or I'll add it to as a
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comment you will be able to check out
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her work so I'm just gonna end us in a
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comment check out the blog posts and you
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can get some more information outside of
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the live video so join Michelle is 100
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percent a great example of fine art
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wedding photography this is the kind of
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work that you would find in lengthen not
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or Martha Stewart Weddings like any type
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of another where's the twenty-seventh
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magazine that you'd pick up
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in a sore that is like real real fine
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are real high-end that's the kind of
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work that she does so the best
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description for this type of photography
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is definitely penny and capturing
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details so you'll see a lot of close-ups
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of like florals bridal accessories
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bouquets very I mean like look at
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whatever shots really you can see it's a
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lot of focus are here on okay
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very intimate very emotional driven and
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in some cases it can also be dramatic
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now be sure that you don't confuse
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dramatic with like I don't know like
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adventurous like Marvel Studios it's in
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any more type of like drama stuff like
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that that's not it dramatic would be
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more of you can like you'll see the
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details and the images but you'll also
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feel the different types of energy
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between a couple like you know this
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couple it's not like he's just sitting
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there in your life whatever you can feel
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they're in the moment so you get that
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like intense emotion is probably the
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best to simplify it and then I want to
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share here some examples of details that
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are captured in like fine art wedding
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part so you'll see a lot of close-up
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shots like they said so every little
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detail that the bride is as a part of
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her day I guarantee you is going to be
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shot in this type of photography and
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that is why you know somebody may feel
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differently but that is why I believe
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that this is the type of work hate
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Jennifer businesses have work that
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you'll find in magazines like the night
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market because they love showing details
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so let's go to the next one which is
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lifestyle photography and I'm featuring
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one of my good friends L of captured by
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L and she's definitely like we have just
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talked about this so I'm just tell you
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guys are not just random people right so
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she definitely falls under lights off
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photography when you read the
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description and we were talking to each
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other reliable like yes that's it so
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this is like a mixture
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and she calls it like a hybrid mixture
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of documentary and find out which I can
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agree with as well so you'll finds it
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being definitely a mixture of
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photojournalism and traditional so how
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do you get an understanding of this they
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cope like what I just showed you which
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was fine art but a little bit more
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candid and natural and a genuine feel
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moment where for example now I'm sure L
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wouldn't do this during the ceremony
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because that's just a moment that we
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we've rarely interjections unless
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someone is like standing directly in
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front of us that is being inappropriate
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but in the event of like a portrait
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session or bribe you know riding through
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a couple portrait session however you
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like to call it this is where we
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probably would interject so that you had
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you still have that natural candid
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moment but she would interject which she
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felt led to to have her creative input
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so the cool thing about this this kind
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of photography is that anyone I was
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writing this I was like yes this is
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really cool because you get that mixture
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you get those documentary style moments
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you get those fine art details but then
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you also get the moment where it's like
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you you almost have you almost go look
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at the work and say okay assistant
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natural moment was this pose so if
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you're kind of feeling that way I
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guarantee you it's more of lifestyle
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photography and I was sharing as well
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that I can definitely relate to this
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because I do this style as well even
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though I'm leaning more towards fine art
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I still incorporate this within parts of
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my day
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so definitely love I love all three of
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these that I'm talking about cuz they
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all serves like a great purpose and so I
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gave some examples here of life what it
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means like interject it within a pose
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moment so this is my work here and of
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course I placed like for instance the
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price let's look at this little I place
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them on the stairwell I told them you
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know this person's that beyond but I
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love live with those she said she
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completely agreed
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the description absolutely that's good
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see guys so I'm leading you in the right
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way so with this photo obviously I told
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them to get on the stairwell and I lined
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them up because as a photographer you
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know I know what I wanted to look and I
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don't want to get this look however you
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know outside of that there's going to be
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kin in actual moments and I find those
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moments to be you know the best so of
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course I'm telling them I'm talking to
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them you know in the moment I'm not
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going sick so exactly what I'm saying
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and it's not because I have this big
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secret because every wedding is
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different so I buy differently with how
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I need to communicate but that is an
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example of you know that's an example of
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having a moment where your interjecting
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but you're still linked still allowing
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the natural and candid moment to
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transpire so this one the next the last
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one that I'm going to talk about is
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documentary and photojournalistic first
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of all let me just say I love this guy's
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work okay I worked with him before at
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their camara of 33 in the photography
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his work is so good now he definitely he
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would definitely be dark and moody
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compared to like my style or join join
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me tell or else final back to show you
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guys but in his work is so good like
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seriously it when I worked with him that
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day I was just like flat-out like I
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loved his approach I love how there was
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moments where I was not like myself I
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wouldn't do that because it doesn't go
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with like how I approach but when I saw
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what he produced in the end I was just
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like that is phenomenal so I love that
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he has like this documentary or photo
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journalistic touch to his work and so
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what you'll find like with that type of
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photography is it is definitely more
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natural and candid they're not going to
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be that much posing but if there is it
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would be more so like to correct
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something because it doesn't look right
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which any of any of these styles would
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definitely do but I wanted to make sure
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that it's understood that this type
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Photography is to be you know value just
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as much as excuse me as fine art or
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lifestyle photography sorry guys I have
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to reload this I don't know why it just
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glitched up isola there we go
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okay so I just thought that sounds like
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that's weird
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so I also wanted to make sure that you
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guys understood like even though this
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may be more of like a laid-back in
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that's all like opinion as well don't
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confuse it with a lazy photographer like
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this type of photography is the type of
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photography that you like see or line
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and you're like wow like I wanted to be
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there or I wish I was there like and his
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work is so good I think that too just
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joined us
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so hey actor I think that's you um his
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work is like super good like like I said
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I worked with him before and I was just
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like me it made me actually the weddings
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home that I put out for Shalika and
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Kevin he actually made me be more
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creative with their wedding film because
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they hired the both of us which is which
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was great and we obviously have two
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different styles if you look at like his
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work and fine but he actually made me
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push my creativity for that wedding that
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we shot together so this is why I chose
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these three type of these three types of
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wedding photography to highlight in the
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blog post because I see a lot of it like
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I see a lot of posts and I see couples
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you know talked a lot about you know
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they just they're just confused with the
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different types of wedding photography
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cells that are out there and so I was
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like you know what I'm gonna highlight
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three of the best wedding photography
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style that I like that I've seen and I
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had to pick people that I'm better
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absolutely killing it in their
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particular style so if you want to check
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out any of the people that I mentioned
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in this blog you can go to the link that
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put it in the comments and you'll be
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linked all three of them to their
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website so you'll definitely be able to
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see they work there
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oh you're welcome Hector like I met what
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I say it so he said he just ladies
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scrolling hints on your site but
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seriously like I actually can say I have
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an element of like all three and I said
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I'm leaning more now towards more fine
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art but all three I definitely have done
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and I know like for documentary like I
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definitely shoot perceptions like a
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documentary and the reason why is like
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I'm not about to go I'm not about to
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like stop people dancing during the
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reception think I'll turn this way so I
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can get you like on camera in the right
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way like no that's a--that's a
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difference also between a professional
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but I felt like that was a really good
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example of what documentary style
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photography looks like during a
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reception which I excuse me stated in
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the blog post so I hope this right L
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okay see I still look L agree that his
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work because he tell you look first of
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all Golding is about peace don't even
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look at work yet like I want you to but
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his about page super chill
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like I love how you feel like you you
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know him just by looking at his about
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page which is like a witty way because
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he just being himself in like as someone
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who worked with him looking at is about
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page it's like equivalent so I'm going
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to stop there I also added some
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different things that you like as far as
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like how far in advance you should you
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book your wedding photographer how to
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implement an unplugged wedding in 2018
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wedding trends in the same piece so
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definitely go check it out
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I am hopping off but if you're catching
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to replay this was basically the
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question of the day of how do I know
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what style what type of style of my
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wedding photographer is if you have any
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questions drop them in a comment below
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and I'll see you guys next time
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fine
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