The art of reportage photography is basically where images are captured in a documentary style rather than posed shots. This means that the final photos tell the story of events as they happened and the album looks more like a story board than the more formal style of the traditional albums. A friend asked me to hunt down the best reportage wedding photographer Yorkshire had to offer for her daughter’s wedding and I gave her the name of one which we had used earlier for our son’s wedding.
Whether you wish to have traditional style photos or the more contemporary style, you need to ensure that you chose someone who is professional and courteous as he will be with you all through the day and you do not want someone who will offend people or always be in their faces. A Reportage wedding photographer will document your big day and present the pictures in a storybook album, much like photojournalists do.
The final results will depend on many factors but make sure that you see samples of their work before you book them and try to use someone who has been recommended to you and whose work you are happy with. You want unique and distinctive photos which will bring back happy memories and put a smile on your face when you look at them.
Another point to remember is that the setting needs to be conducive to pretty pictures and a church and gardens will always make for nicer pictures than a wedding in a register office. A good reportage wedding photographer will be able to make even the more sedate and boring wedding look interesting but he cannot work miracles. Having the wedding set in the grounds of a stately home is often not so much from a desire to play at being a part of the aristocracy for a day, but from the need to have great looking photos for the wedding album.
You want someone who will be there to document all great and small moments of the day and capture the mood of the wedding. Some weddings are fun and noisy and these usually make for great candid shots while the quieter weddings lead to a more traditional style of wedding album and look more posed.
Weddings are made up of so many small factors and any of these can go wrong. The largest of mistakes can usually be fixed with some quick thinking and plenty of cash but take care because if you have poor results from your reportage wedding photographer, you cannot fix that. You will have lost the only permanent physical mementos of the big day and this will upset not only the bride and groom, and their respective families, but also all the guests who were looking forward to seeing themselves in the wedding album. So take your time and do not select the first reportage wedding photographer Yorkshire ,or any city, throws at you, nor the cheapest one you come across.
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