| If there is one technological development that had a | | | | 'wedding event.' |
| great impact on wedding photography, then it has to | | | | The fact that the early camera was such a huge |
| be the miniaturization of the camera. Miniaturization in | | | | machine also meant that it was expensive. It was |
| this context means 'making small of' - like where we | | | | also a rare machine. The few studios that had it |
| see the computer being miniaturized, from being a | | | | knew that they could charge a fortune for their |
| machine that used to fill huge buildings, into being a | | | | services, and get away with it. For this reason, |
| machine that can be 'baby sat' on the lap. The early | | | | wedding photography in those days was a very |
| camera, too, was a very huge machine. It was, like | | | | expensive venture; and there were many couples |
| many machines of those days, made from the direct | | | | who - desire it as they may - found it way beyond |
| application of principles that were being discovered in | | | | their means. |
| physics labs. Those were raw principles, and the | | | | All this was to change with the miniaturization of the |
| machines made out of them quite unrefined. So the | | | | camera. |
| early camera was the type of machine that filled a | | | | The miniaturization of the camera, at its |
| building, the building in question this time being the | | | | accomplishment, resulted in a highly portable machine |
| photography studio. | | | | - which was no longer confined to the studio. This |
| The fact that the early camera was confined to the | | | | was a machine that could be carried to where the |
| studio meant that it was a machine that was of very | | | | wedding ceremony was being held, and be made to |
| little use in wedding photography. Unless a couple | | | | capture the 'wedding event.' So from a position |
| decided to hold their wedding right inside the | | | | where the best a couple hope for was 'photos of |
| photographic studio, there was no way they could | | | | how they looked like on their wedding day,' we |
| have the 'wedding event,' the exact moment when | | | | ended up in a situation where couples could also get |
| they were declared man and wife, captured on film. | | | | photos of the exact 'wedding event:' when they |
| The best that a couple could hope for was to go to | | | | were declared man and wife. |
| the photographic studio, where the large camera | | | | The miniaturization of the camera also made it more |
| machine was resident, and have photographs of | | | | affordable. More businesspeople started to invest in |
| them taken. This they could do right after or right | | | | the cameras - and with this enhanced competition |
| before the wedding ceremony. They had to do it | | | | came a lowering of price. And with the lowering of |
| knowing that the pictures they would be getting | | | | price came the possibility, for every couple that |
| were to be pictures of how they looked on their | | | | fancied it (even those that were not so rich), to |
| wedding day, rather than pictures of the actual | | | | engage in the wedding photography. |