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One aspect of our wedding that we really enjoyed researching was wedding photography. Mr Snow works with quite a bit photography as part of his job, and my dad is a photographer. We like snapping pictures, and we like thinking about and trying out interesting styles of photography. In the end, we chose our photographers because of their composition. To us, composition, or how photographers incorporate and weave together symmetry, depths of field, lines, and texture into the photographs, is most important to us.

But it is fun to geek out over all the cool photography styles out there.

So, instead of collecting a series of wedding photographs we liked (we’d be here for years… there are some seriously talented photographers out there), we had some fun daydreaming about photography styles. Here are some interesting photography approaches we thought might be cool for weddings:

Lomography/Holga:

picture link courtesy of lomography.com

Mr. Snow and I often take our Holga with us on vacation. These large plastic toy cameras produce dreamy pictures due to light leaks and simplistic construction. They’re not precise, and you never know what you’ll get, but both b&w and color pictures turn out really cool. Here’s some of our Holga photography (BTW, none of these have had any Photoshop or editing except to crop the negative):

I think B&W Holga photography could make for some amazing wedding shots.

Ring Flash:

Canon MR 14EX - Ring-type flash

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Ring flashes were originally developed by dentists for lighting on close up photographs of teeth. Now they’re used for portraiture and fashion photography (think American Apparel catalogs). They’d be so cool for beautiful portraiture or for weddings in an urban/city setting.

Check out some great ringflash photos here: Orbis Ring Flash Gallery

Tilt Shift:

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Wikipedia does a nice job of explaining this technique here. Wouldn’t tilt shift make for some impressive large groups shots or photos of the venue?

Check out some seriously cool tilt shift photography and links for tutorials here.

Of course, these are “If we had all the time in the world…” ideas. We trust our photographers implicitly and are really excited to see their artistry through our engagement and wedding photography.

What styles of photography do you love? How did you choose your photographer?