Wedding Photojournalism
by Sylvia Lim- ImageStudio88

"What is wedding photojournalism?", asked a couple who came to me to arrange their wedding photo shoot.

Wedding photojournalism resembles the way news photographer cover events, all of which lead to spontaneous reactions to unfolding moments. To shoot photojournalistic wedding images successfully requires some special skills. First, you must keep an open mind, and an eye out for the unusual. Second, you need to have the technical skills to be able to shoot without thinking about equipment, exposure or lighting. Finally, to capture those unique moments at the right expression, the right composition, the right lighting, you must be totally aware of everything that is going on around you at all times. Doing this effectively requires anticipating the special moments of a wedding, and being ready before they happen.

Wedding photojournalism focuses on capturing the joy and emotion the bride and groom are experiencing on the wedding day. These could be the emotions on people's faces, and even details like the lace on a bride's dress.

Shooting wedding photojournalism might include some pictures taken as the bride transform herself with makeup, jewelry, etc; or the mom's reaction to see her little girl as a bride. A classic shot for any wedding photojournalism is one of the bride getting ready for the wedding, usually called the "dressing" shot. The pictures should convey a sense of intimacy, and are usually made with the bride, and maid of honor, with close friends or with a group that include the mother and perhaps even the mother-in-law to be. Tenderness, affection, and caring are the emotions the wedding photojournalism photographs should portray of the bride and mother. The emotions between father and daughter on the wedding day are strong, and wedding photojournalism captures that photographs that convey the feelings of warmth and affection they share.

Sylvia Lim - ImageStudio88