| Reportage Wedding Photography is still thought by | | | | low-ish light) became a signature "look" found in Time |
| many to be a recent trend in photography. In fact it | | | | magazine and other iconic journals. |
| has a long heritage and was often called candid | | | | Naturally, wedding photography started to borrow |
| photography in the context of a wedding. Seen by | | | | this look and start demanding the grainy black and |
| extreme traditionalists (a rare breed now) as a new | | | | white look. The grain is of course a form of visual |
| fad, it was felt to threaten the supremacy of the | | | | artefact - a distortion of the truth in reality. Today's |
| medium format camera with its staged shots and | | | | technology now takes this several steps further with |
| posed set ups. | | | | the equivalent of ISO 102,000 available on some |
| In the old style, photographers always had a big | | | | machines. A shot at ISO 6400 is now considered |
| camera set up on a tripod and even a hood over the | | | | routine - affording incredible reportage wedding |
| head of the photographer. This Very formal and very | | | | photography options to the photographer - with no |
| posed art of portraiture was born, like so many of | | | | grain in sight. |
| today's cultural norms, of technological limitations. | | | | At times the modern, digital photographer is asked to |
| Way back when, photographic technology required | | | | add a simulation of celluloid film grain to otherwise |
| long exposure times, long winded plate or film | | | | pristine photograph. Although it can look great, it is an |
| changes and "keep still" poses. Fast 35 mm film | | | | intriguing fact of aesthetics that a photograph can |
| basically solved this problem, again with certain | | | | seem more timeless and real with artefacts added to |
| limitations. Lighter cameras holding rolls meant that | | | | it. |
| photojournalistic techniques could be applied to | | | | Part of the maturation of reportage wedding |
| wedding photography. | | | | photography has to be the evolution of the Wedding |
| The game changer was that wedding photography | | | | Album. Rather than present the married couple with a |
| needed no longer to be posed. Wedding Photography | | | | simple book with best pictures placed in order of |
| could now become Reportage Photography. Precious | | | | preference, the wedding photographer's task now |
| moments, unrepeatable in a pose are only possible | | | | includes the design and layout of a book that well tell |
| with the participants being unaware that a camera is | | | | the story of the wedding. Photographs are placed in |
| in use. Fast film offered this to a degree, although | | | | a digitally printed book, in chronological order. Each |
| the fastest film was ISO 1600 or 3200 and were | | | | photo relates to each other photo as part of a linear |
| very grainy. In fact the grain produced by fast film | | | | story, bringing vividly back the memories of the big |
| (which enabled action freezing photojournalism in | | | | day. |