Shooting Style

Emotion

Emotion is the central focus of my wedding photography. Any photograph can help you remember how your wedding looked - but it’s my goal to help you remember how your wedding felt.

I aim to make photographs that will allow you to place yourself inside your special moments every time you look at them. When viewing your album, I want you to feel the same overwhelming emotion you experienced when you peered into the mirror after putting on your dress. I want you to feel the fidgety nervousness as you prepared to leave your dressing room. I want you to feel the pounding of your heart as you prepared to walk down the aisle. And when you share your album and photographs as your family grows, I want your children and grandchildren to feel the emotions for themselves and imagine what their own special day will feel like.

Trendy vs Timeless

Remember slap bracelets? Beehive hairstyles? 80s music? The Macarena? Yeah, I agree: awesome! But I don’t think you want your wedding photos to be that kind of awesome.

I’m a contemporary photographer rooted in classic, elegant styles, and I shy away from the latest fads and trendy Photoshop tricks. In fact, unlike most photographers, I don’t use Photoshop in my workflow at all! Producing timeless photographs that won’t embarrass you in 20 years is incredibly important to me. After all, your wedding will be perfect already – it doesn’t need fake embellishments. Instead, I capture and provide natural images that document the real moments of your day. No artificial sweeteners. No added preservatives.

Enhanced Photojournalism

Most people who hire me share my personality and sense of humor. So although I always say “I intend to quietly document the wedding from an unobtrusive, photojournalistic approach,” most of my clients end up grabbing me by the arm and yanking me into the action anyway. At first I thought this might detract from the objectivity I was striving for. But it’s actually quite the opposite: it gives me much more of an intimate access to my subjects, which translates into more photojournalistic photos than if I were simply hanging out on the sidelines.

That said, I still say I’m unobtrusive. By that, I mean that I’m never going to interrupt your natural moments to pose you or re-shoot something. And if your fiance’s best man is shirtless on the dance floor, shakin’ it to “Dancing Queen,” I’ll be right next to him… but I’ll be the last person trying to stop him!