Modern Wedding Photography.

Is there a typical wedding photography package for the modern bride? What can a bride expect, or better still, what does she really want? Many photographers today seem to want to separate their styles by offering traditional, contemporary and reportage. Firstly, what’s traditional? I guess this means a recognised approach to the entire day which will include formal arranged groups and portraits. This is a style recognised as the benchmark of all wedding photography for many years. Contemporary, this has been a bit of a buzz word in recent years. This style generally seems to involve taking the stiffness out of the regimental side of traditional wedding photography in favour of a more relaxed and fun approach. This can stretch as far as having the friends and family bouncing about on space hoppers, but would certainly have groups sitting, chatting, drinking and generally appearing to enjoy themselves rather than standing in stiff rows. Portraits too in the "contemporary" style are more artistic utilising landscapes, architecture and mixed lighting to produce a different style of portrait. Reportage, this is a more candid and photojournalistic approach to a wedding. Here the photographer steps back a little from arranging and creating his or her opportunities and lets the day unfold before them. The images taken capture the mood of the day with people enjoying themselves without the intrusion of posing for the picture. This style becomes more of a documentary of the event.

But what is right for you? Well, Andrew Starkey of Incadoo Professional Photography will tell you that all brides should have the best of all styles. When you log on to www.incadoo.co.uk you will see that throughout the site there is a true mixture of disciplines. This is because over the last 30 years of Cheshire Wedding Photography and Staffordshire Wedding Photography, Incadoo has seen many changes in attitude in the Wedding Photography market. This is why a modern photographer must produce a good mixture of traditional, contemporary and reportage. The page http://www.incadoo.co.uk/wedding_photographer_cheshire_manchester_staffordshire.php shows just how these styles merge together to give what all brides should expect. The modern bride is a discerning customer and will appreciate a photographer that can create a folio of images that touch on all three major disciplines at once.