Professional St Louis Photographer, Vladimir Sterkin, Offers Wedding Photography Advice
Posted: Wednesday, November 18, 2009
by Vladimir Sterkin
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There are many highly experienced companies that provide photography service, as well as proofing options, printing options, and wedding albums.
It is highly recommended to choose a photography company that does a majority of their business as weddings. This guarantees you're getting service from a photographer that is confident in being able to provide the expected styles of photographing .
Photo journalistic styles of wedding photograph simply means that the photographer acts more like a journalist, as in they will be following you around and they will capture more non-staged, intimate moments of your wedding day.
Contemporary can mean different things to different people. The way this photography works is that the photographer finds places where the backgrounds are beautiful and there is proper lighting. Thus the photographs of the bride and groom are in a more ideal setting. When this technique is done properly, the results can be stunning! These are the style of pictures that you will see in fashion and wedding magazines.
Traditional is the style that is now somewhat out of fashion. It consists of posed groups and portraits. There is a lot of direction from the wedding photographer on how to stand or pose. The benefits are that you get pictures that are attractive but predictable. Please note that requesting this type of photography can be time consuming and may take away from time with your friends and guests.
It is mostly recommended these days that you use a blend of styles to get a well-rounded result. 80% journalistic and 20% traditional is a great way of capturing your wedding and being able to have a wide spectrum of photography styles to choose from when your album is designed.
Wedding albums have changed dramatically in the last decade. The popular types of albums these days are called coffee table style albums or digital albums. They are essentially high quality hard-bound (some soft-bound options are out there) illustration books similar to what you'd find in an art section of a bookstore.
Since the layouts of digital albums are not limited to simply stacking common photo sizes one after the other, very dramatic artwork can be created from your wedding photographs. Imagine an image of your wedding cake spanned across two pages of an open digital book and several stylized shots of the couple feeding each other the cake are digitally layed on top. This gives a very dynamic result, and prevents the often 'boring' factor of traditional wedding albums that one gets after flipping through several pages of the same 'quadrant' style albums of the past.
It is also important to choose a photographer that has good credentials and positive client experiences. Ask the photographer for a list of past references and see what the wedding couple says of their results. Always question photographers whose prices are outside the norm (especially prices significantly below other competitor's pricing, like the kind you may see on Craigslist). A lot of inexperienced photographers charge much lower pricing to create a portfolio or to expand a limited portfolio.
While every wedding photographer has to start somewhere, it is generally discouraged to use an inexperienced photographer because the results could be poor, and that is not a good way to guarantee happy memories of your wedding day.
Hopefully you picked up some useful tips in how to choose a good wedding photographer. There is a lot of information on the web on choosing a photographer, so visit some reputable websites that can help assist you in finding the perfect company to archive your wedding day.
Principal photographer and owner, Vladimir Sterkin, has over twenty years experience behind the camera. He always uses his high technical ability and an uncompromising artistic and cinematographic approach to each and every shot. Vladimir has won several awards for his work and has shot for companies such as Toni & Guy Intl., Nice Modeling Agency, Remax, Coldwell Banker Gundaker, and has been recognized by Wired Magazine for his personal work.
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Top-level comments on this article: (4 total)Hi Vladmimir,Thank you for this article. Welcome to SearchWarp!Mark
Vladimir, Thank you for writing a very informative article. Best of luck to you. Welcome to Searchwarp. ~Nenita~
Hi Vladimir. Your article came up as a suggested reading through the Reader's Club, so here I am again reiterating what I said previously, very informative article and filled with useful tips. Happy Thanksgiving! ~Nenita~Great! Thanks a lot, I'll check out Reader's Club too!Vladimir SterkinProfessional St. Louis photographer
Hi Sandy, Thanks for this article. Welcome to SearchWarp Writer community.
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