Just as fashion changes, so do our images
Where some are reticent to move away from the traditional portrait style, more and more people are seeking an 'indie' look for their wedding photography, and here's where it gets interesting…
The whole key to fashion (and in turn, what we seek to represent our wedding) is that it is evolving.
The bold colours, defined shoulder pads, and statement poses of our 80's wedding may begin to look a little dated on the wall, just as the staid images of 1930's weddings do, and after the resurgence of the sunflare again loses it's ember, so too will the 70's flower child wedding portrait.
Which brings me to the present day. I'm going to (for want of a better description) call it the 'hipster, funky, retro, vintage, shabby-chic style' of wedding portraiture, which I admit is covering a fairly broad range.
The homely, the pretty, a little vintage, a little gritty.
It's all about pastels, caramels, and greys. There is still a bit of sun flare here and there, and a fair smattering of light bleed.
It's fashion.
It's cool.
It's bold and different – especially for something so 'traditional' as a wedding – a (you hope) once in a lifetime event. One that cannot, ever, be replicated.
So you had better
get
it
right.
Right?
Well, not strictly.
You see, the beauty of digital 'film', coupled with the fact most of these 'indie' looks are created in post production, means that you can digitally remaster/restyle your wedding pictures – provided your photographer kept the RAW files (as I always do).
That means you can take you 'hipster, funky, retro, vintage, shabby-chic style', which I am certain that as 'editorial' and pretty as it looks now with it's (for the most part) lack of any true whites, and 'album cover naive posing'…
Ok. I have to stop here. I'm worried you are taking this all wrong.
I love the look!
I really do. If I were lucky enough to be getting married now, it's what I would have for my photos. I'm just breaking it down for the purposes of description here.
…So you can take your wedding photos from 2013, and restlye them
ten, twenty, thirty years from now!
The raw image that your photographer took won't look like that finished product you have printed.
Your scope is endless,
and I think it's so cool.
You can update your wedding photos to suit the fashion, to suit your decor, to suit your mood!
Again, provided you have a photographer like myself…. a hoarder of images, who will have kept all of the RAW files, the 'negatives', the originals from the day.
I'm going to start offering a re-touching (bumps, lumps, lines, general gussying-up) and re-styling (changing the whole look/vibe/theme) service.
Here's a couple I mucked around with last night…
Before.
After.
Before.
After.
Before.
After.
It's a new, old look. What do you think?
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