Black and White Wedding Photography
June 5, 2008
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Black and white wedding photography manages to create the stark contrasts between light and dark that seems to get lost in different shades of color. The subtle grey tones introduce different degrees of depth and interest but the polar opposites of black and white are always in force in these compositions. Black and white wedding photos have another advantage. If the weather is overcast or it’s raining on your big day, color wedding photos can look dreary. Black and white wedding photography gives a classic and timeless feel to your wedding collection and also works very well with the artistic and reportage styles in our coverage of the day. Crowded backgrounds often disappear by removing competing colours to leave the purity of the subject being photographed, adding to the very natural feel of our photographs.
Photographic coverage starts at the bride’s home, followed by the ceremony, and a visit to a scenic location to photograph your family, the bridal party, and the bride and groom. The photographer will conclude by taking posed cutting of the cake photographs at the reception hall before your reception begins. Photographing portraits require special skills in metering and exposure, setting aperture and shutter speed correcty and accurately in order to capture perfect skin tones and expressions. Style and pose are critical.
Black and white wedding photographers with all these skills are few and the most talented people in this field are hard to find. Beyond the technical expertise with cameras, equipment, and a knowledge of lighting both broad and sublime, wedding photography requires sensitivity, compassion, intuition and an eye developed over many years of photographing people. Photographers who shoot digitally can decide which images will translate best in color or black and white during processing, since they can choose after the fact.
These methods are also less costly than traditional darkroom processing and much better for the environment, since it does away with all the nasty chemicals. Photographers from these fields have filtered into the wedding industry and created a great new approach to capturing your wedding day.
Colorful photography does provide a lot of variety and includes various colors of nature and the beauty and variations of unknown colors too. But, black and white photography captures the still motions, the unseen but seen truth of a photo and the intensity of a picture. Color is all very nice but sometimes the rich tonal qualities that we can see in the work of the photographic artists are something certainly to be savored.
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