page_title: Wedding photography
section_title: Approaches
hierarchical_section_title: Wedding photography / Approaches
caption_attribution_description: English: Portait of wedding couple circa 1926. In the early days of wedding photography usually only several posed portraits of the couple were photographed.
context_page_description: Wedding photography is a specialty in photography that is primarily focused on the photography of events and activities relating to weddings. It may include other types of portrait photography of the couple before the official wedding day, such as a pre-wedding engagement session. On the official wedding day, the photographer will attempt to provide portrait photography, as well as documentary photography coverage to document the different events and rituals throughout the wedding day.
context_section_description: Two approaches to wedding photography are traditional and photojournalistic. Many wedding photographers will fall somewhere in between the extremes represented by these two descriptions.
  Traditional wedding photography provides for more classically posed images and a great deal of photographer control during the ceremony.
  A Photojournalist style of wedding photography takes its cue from editorial reporting styles and focuses more on candid images with little photographer interaction; a wedding photojournalist typically shoots images quickly using available light or on-camera flash rather than using traditional, formal posing techniques and studio lights.
  A third style is a fashion-based approach. In contemporary/fashion-based wedding photography, a photographer will combine candid images of the events of the day with posed images that are inspired by editorial fashion photography This style often involves more innovative and dramatic post-processing of images.
  A fourth style that is popular in Asian countries, especially in China, is wedding studio photography (Chinese: 婚纱摄影; pinyin: hūn shā shè yǐng).  Typically, couples will make an appointment with a studio for an in-studio or a location shoot, with support from a hair stylist and make-up artist in addition to the photographer and the couple.  The couple will go through many changes of clothing and backgrounds in a similar manner to the fashion based approach.
  The term contemporary wedding photography is used to describe wedding photography that is not of a traditional nature. The emphasis in contemporary photography is to capture the story and atmosphere from the day, so that the viewer has an appreciation of what the wedding was like, rather than a series of pre-determined poses.
caption: Wedding couple portrait circa 1926. In the early days of wedding photography, usually only several posed portraits of the couple were photographed.
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