Category Archives: Hints, Tips, & FAQ

Hints, tips, and Frequently Asked Questions for your wedding day, engagement shoot, and photos.

The Many Styles of Wedding Photography

bride and groom kissing in a tree

Our brides often ask us what style of wedding photography we do. They wonder if we take traditional posed photos or if we use more of the “photojournalistic” style popular today. They want to know if we like to be interactive with the wedding party and help to direct and create the images we take....

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Why do an Engagement Session?
(And what is that, anyway?)

Engagement photo session using playground equipment.

Many wedding photographers offer something called an “engagement session” with their wedding photography packages.   We include engagement sessions in many of our own wedding photography collections.  But before we discuss why to have an engagement session, let’s look at what they are and where they came from. Engagement photo sessions have been around for a...

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What are “Proofs”?

sample proof image

I’ll start by saying that every photographer is different, and that every photographer has a different idea of what a photographic proof is. Back in the “old days” when a photographer was finished shooting your wedding he or she would take the shot film to the photo lab and get a quick set of prints...

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