Black and White Wedding Photographer

Another compilation post today, this time regarding Black and White wedding photography.  Firstly let me start by saying I love black and white photography, not just wedding photography but various other genres, for example landscape photography.  There are many Black and White wedding photographers out there which I drew a lot of inspiration when I was learning the basics, I won’t go into them all here as you might end up booking them for your wedding!  I love the timeless quality the black and whites have, not old fashioned as such just something that will never look dated, or not as dated as some of the sin city inspired colour isolation wedding photos out there.  I also enjoy the vintage style photos which are popular at the moment as they compliment the rusticy , DIY, type weddings which many couples are going for at the moment but I always come back to the black and whites and generally my favourite shot of a wedding will be in black and white (or monochrome).

Brides and grooms tend to like them as it gives the skin a more flattering tone and smooths out any imperfections or blotches.  The black and whites also work well with the informal documentary style of photography that we like to do.  Not that we are purely photo journalistic and have no interaction with the couple at all, far from it, but we do try and let the day unfold on it’s own and just get the photos as it happens.  The black and white style does take some tweaking and again is unique to each photographer, I always say it’s not a case of just clicking a B&W button.  Generally the quick black and whites come out as uninspiring, low contrast collections of grey pixels whereas I like to tinker a little and make the whites nice and punchy and the blacks deep and moody.
Another bonus with getting all your images on a DVD is we also include the colour versions of the black and whites if they aren’t quite to your tastes, or if you fancy an early marriage argument where one prefers the black and white and the other prefers the colour!  But as this isn’t an in depth photography post (one or two of those in the archives) I’ll just get onto posting some images and a slideshow and see what you think.  Thanks for looking folks.