What is editorial wedding photography?
Couples often have many questions when trying to find the right wedding photographer. It’s such an important celebration – you want to feel comfortable, stylish, beautiful – and most importantly, truly yourselves in your photographs.
A good place to start is by refining your search to a style of photography that resonates with you. My style is editorial wedding photography – but what does that mean? Let’s take a deeper dive below where I will explain a bit more about how this style of photography could work for your celebrations.
What is editorial photography?
Traditionally, editorial photography is photography that accompanies an article in a magazine, newspaper or online publication. It is a style of photography that helps convey the message of the article itself, portraying the same feeling or story that the words do. It is designed to enhance the narrative of the article – not, like commercial photography to sell a product. The focus is on the story, not a sale.
What is editorial wedding photography?
Editorial wedding photography captures the essence of editorial photography – storytelling – and its aesthetic, too. Those fashionable, composed shots that feel like they could have been lifted from the pages of a magazine.
That’s what makes editorial wedding photography so special – a combination of the high-end, glossy, fashion photography with an innately personal approach, designed to capture who you are, your story and the essence of your day.
As an editorial photographer, my clients come to me for this unique approach. Although expressive and candid, I seize unscripted visual moments between my couples and their loved ones; moments which take photographic experience and an artistic eye to position and capture.
Documentary photography implies a simple ‘I’m not here, ignore me’ photographic style, where moments are snapped exactly as they are, as they unfold. Editorial wedding photography aims to capture the most beautiful moments that tell a natural story, refined through very gentle artistic direction.
Flash
Unusually for many wedding photographers, I love the editorial feel of flash, tending to use flash for about 70% of a wedding celebration. Browse my work to see this aesthetic in action.
For me, flash is very much linked to the editorial movement. There’s something both kitsch and high-end fashion about the feel flash gives when used right. The feel of an editorial on an exclusive celeb party at a member’s club – intimate, hedonistic, glamorous and once-in-a-lifetime.