Nov 10 2010 3:18PM
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Barry
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Photos
A journalist is a story teller and a photographer takes pictures. The role of the wedding photojournalist is to tell the story of your day through pictures that will bring back the emotional memories and feelings of the day.
A photojournalist captures actions, people doing things, and this requires constant diligence and eyes everywhere, and especially on the bride and groom.
The photojournalist will be in the background, unobtrusive but aware of the key moments, capturing un-posed, unique images.
The photojournalist will not attempt to control the proceedings but will record the flow.
With this philosophy and work ethic, the photographs for every wedding will be completely different and unique.
A photojournalist will take the minimum of posed pictures, as requested by the bride and groom.
A sense of composition and timing is essential for the photojournalist.
This compares with a traditional wedding photographer who will take pictures of objects, group shots, all carefully arranged and orchestrated. The traditional photographer will take control of the day, dictate who stands where, with whom and for how long. In this way they are not recording events, but creating them to a standard, always used format. Every image taken is staged and false.
Weddings photographed in this manner will be the same, just with different heads, clothes and colours…same traditional poses.
One expert photojournalist, Mark M Hancock put the difference very simply. A photojournalist captures verbs. A photographer captures nouns.