Nashville Wedding Photo Styles

Nashville Wedding Photography Styles & Techniques ::

Photographers each have their own style of shooting pictures. After years of taking pictures, you can usually distinguish the various approaches and techniques into different style categories. At Nashville Wedding Photography, we typically use four different formats of photography for weddings that we cover. We are completely and fully skilled in each style and allow the couple to choose the style that best represents their personality and shows off their distinctive character.

1. Nashville Wedding Photojournalism

The photojournalistic style of wedding photography tells the wedding story through photographs, with the photographer’s involvement not very evident. There is less emphasis on the typically posed and planned images, with the photographer mostly on the sidelines shooting from the background as unobtrusively as possible. However, we have the viewer in mind and the interesting photos we capture put the viewer in the middle of ongoing events. The images we capture represent natural moments that are very real, doing away with the typical set up of arranged people posing for a picture. This style of photography makes us consider ourselves the “photographic storytellers,” leading the viewer through panel-by-panel story of your wedding day. We at Nashville Wedding Photography consider this as our choice format for wedding photography. We try to find those significant fleeting moments and capture them with out lens. This is what we enjoy most, those rare moments that can pass by so quickly but caught in time and shown through the images we produce.

2. Nashville Traditional Wedding Photography

The traditional wedding photography is unlike the photojournalistic style of wedding photography because this involves the photographer’s direction at most times. Most of the portraits in the traditional style are set up and posed, with the people in them aesthetically arranged or traditionally placed, like all male on the right and the females on the left; or all bridesmaids first, then all the sponsors next. The wedding photographer becomes a director of sorts in this wedding photography style, guiding the wedding guests to form and pose for the photographs. Although we take pride in our Wedding Photojournalistic style, we at Nashville Wedding Photography are also experienced in the direction of wedding parties into posed groups, and in taking individual formal pictures.

3. Nashville Fashion Wedding Photography

The Fashion Wedding Photography style is exactly what it says, focused on the elements of fashion. Brides who choose to sign in for fashion wedding photos often book several hours of studio time aside from the normal wedding day shoot. The photographer in this wedding photography style plans out a session incorporating flattering lighting and creative techniques. A fashion wedding shoot done in a studio allows the bride time to be properly made up and dressed according to her desires and gives her the freedom to move into fashion poses with the more serious and appropriate “fashion model-like” facial expressions. Both the bride and groom go through this style of wedding photography and they are integrated for a different and dramatic effect into their wedding photo album.

4. Nashville Trash The Dress Wedding Photography

As the term or name denotes, this style of wedding photography involves shooting the pictures of the bride “dirtying” the wedding dress worn after the ceremony. This style is also sometimes called “rock the frock” or “fearless bridal.” The brides typically choose this type of wedding photography as a creative alternative to storing away a wedding dress they will never wear again. A bride can venture out in city streets or on railroads, on a beach or a fountain, in fields or abandoned buildings or even go out in the woods to get muddied up. This session oftentimes make the bride feel that this helps them release the tension from the just concluded ceremonies. This can also be the bride’s declaration that the deed is now done and the dress is never to be worn again; so they get creative and artistic and “trash” it. At Nashville Wedding Photography, we will be happy to work with a bride who like to “Trash The Dress!”