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Michelle
Rockstar December 2022

Photography styles

Michelle, on May 6, 2021 at 8:57 PM Posted in Planning 0 14
Is there a certain style you gravitate toward? Or one that does not appeal to you?

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Latest activity by Samantha, on May 9, 2021 at 10:03 PM
  • Rosie
    Master February 2022
    Rosie ·
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    It's super popular right now and many of our friends have had this style of photos, but I personally don't like that kind of... silvery toned, dark and dramatic look photographers are using. Like this:

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    When we were searching it seemed like most photographers were using that, and whilst the emotions they were capturing were amazing, it's just not the vibe we really wanted for our day.

    Our preference was basically the opposite - light, soft and pastel:

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    our photographer does photograph in that style and our engagement photos turned out exactly the way we hoped style-wise so I'm really pleased with our choice.

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  • Erin
    Expert May 2021
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    Bright and airy and outside full of color !!! ❤️
    I CAN NOT STAND THE NEED TO TAKE BEAUTIFUL PICTURES AND THEN TURN THEM BLACK AND WHITE THOUGH. 😡
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  • Nicole
    Master September 2020
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    I’m not a fan of popular filtering that’s happening on a lot of pictures right now. I want true to color, maybe enhancing natural light a hair. We hired our photographers because of how great they are at capturing natural light.
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  • Taylor
    Devoted October 2021
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    Our big thing was finding a photographer whose style looked like what you saw with the naked eye. We felt like “bright and airy” photos often look washed out and you wind up losing details, and a super moody edit wouldn’t hold up forever for us/we think we’d get tired of it. We went with someone who had a very natural style, and I absolutely love how our engagement photos came out.

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    Also, I know you didn’t ask but my biggest advice when selecting a photographer is to see a full gallery!! Cannot stress it enough!!
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  • Taylor
    Devoted October 2021
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    These are absolutely stunning!!

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  • J
    Devoted September 2021
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    We wanted bright, true to life colors, & an ability to capture candies, & that’s what we got! I really can’t stand the overly-light photos or the yellow/beige tinted photos. Moody was my second choice but true-to-life was really what we both wanted!
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  • M
    VIP January 2019
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    I prefer true-to-life color/lighting with minimal editing (ideally, no obvious/visible editing) and a candid/documentarian style (instead of all posed/artificial set ups).

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  • E
    Super July 2023
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    When I got married, the super desaturated "vintage" look was the trend, and I absolutely loathed it. Example:

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    I also don't like the dark moody look that Rosie posted. Again, it's due to color - the image is very desaturated, the colors are all muted, the green trees are more of a grey-green, the skintones look very cold. Just not a fan.

    I don't want my photographer giving me filtered photos. I don't like any muted/pale colors or anything very dark. I don't like anything that looks like I could have taken it with a disposable camera. I want vivid colors and crisp images, with the natural effects that a good photographer can create through depth of field, light play, etc. I prefer cinematic styles, like this:

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  • Kari
    Master May 2020
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    What appeals to me - true to life colors and candid, storytelling style photos that capture authentic memories of the day and not just contrived, posed moments.

    I feel like processing styles have their place - dark and moody, black and white, light and airy, warm and golden, low contrast vintage, etc can all look beautiful BUT those styles also go in and out of fashion. True to life colors are timeless and most accurately capture what your day actually looks like. Why spend time agonizing over fabric swatches to find the perfect mauve color if you are choosing a photographer who is going to make your bridesmaids dresses look more like a rose pink or a dusty blue? And while I like all of those other styles, I didn't want all
    of the professional photos from my wedding, every single last one, to be processed in such a heavily stylized way. I'm a photographer myself, and with a little bit of work I can edit any natural photo into looking like any of those other styles, but you cannot as easily take a photo where a heavy processing style has been applied and restore it to normal, natural colors and tones. Its a bit more difficult to do with jpegs (as opposed to RAW files), but I've been able to edit some of the professional photos from our Covid elopement beautifully, and I'm really excited to get more photos (and more variety) with our wedding celebration this June.

    The other thing that is really important is skin tones. Some of those processing styles have a tendency to alter skin tones in ways that look unnatural - too ghastly and washed out, too over saturated and orange, etc. When I was comparing wedding photographers I was taking a hard look at skin tones and making sure their editing style represented human flesh naturally.

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  • Michelle
    Rockstar December 2022
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    Those are pretty. The vintage style is nice in the right context, with a vintage theme for example, but I can see why it would be personal preference to not be a fan.
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  • Michelle
    Rockstar December 2022
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    I love bright crisp vivid cinematic/magazine quality. With natural lighting. Those are very difficult to find actually.
    At the same time, I am probably in the minority but I am not a fan of the Golden Hour trend where everything is saturated yellow and the filming into the sun so that any people are dark shadows and/or unnaturally tinted. To me, that’s what someone who doesn’t know where to focus the camera on would do and I can’t imagine spending thousands on that

    I have seen some beautiful black and white photos and sepia.
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  • Michelle
    Rockstar December 2022
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    The light and airy is beautiful
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  • Rosie
    Master February 2022
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    Thank you! Hopefully it will be sort of dreamy and romantic.

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  • Samantha
    VIP October 2022
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    These ate gorgeous. But I also am having anxiety LOL
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