Wedding Photography has changed

Wedding Photography has changed with the advent of digital cameras.

Traditionally the album was the centre of the wedding photography. A traditional album would use maybe 3o or 40 images, meaning relatively few of the images taken were used.  As technology developed with albums allowing printing direct to the page you could use many more of your images as each page was individually designed often using more than one images.

In addition to the album, the bridal couple and parents would order a few prints for the mantlepiece and these were generally the more formal or posed group shots.

Things have become much more relaxed now with couples looking for more casual shots both during the day and into the evening.

In the days of film photography photographers using medium format, the preferred format to give the quality for larger print enlargements, a camera was limited to 12 shots on a roll. This made for a much more considered approach before the shutter button was pressed.

A modern professional camera can take 1,000 shots without the need to change battery or memory card and at 10 shots per second if you really need to!

This has made for a more risk-free approach with many more images taken in the anticipation of capturing the image. In reality the photographer partly creates an image and partly just captures it in the right way.

What people want to do with the wedding photographs has changed and has moved away from printed media. A computer monitor is never going to be same experience as looking at a good quality wedding album, it will be just different.

Having images online with platforms like Facebook gives the opportunity for your wedding photographs to be viewed bu many more people than would see your album or prints. It also gives the opportunity for interaction with people commenting.

Many photographers have reacted to this demand by offering electronic images, either as high quality images so that the client can print as they wish or just web-sized images.

This change has not pleased some photographers as the sales made with additional prints were often viewed as just more profit in the bag from a client.