My Photography Style

My philosophy of shooting is simply: Storytelling.

A photo image is about a moment in life as captured through a photographer’s eyes. As a photographer, a beautiful life image deserves my heartfelt sensitivity in interpreting the beauty and significance of the moment.

I let my heart guide me to such moments where attention to every detail is key. I seek to capture the inner beauty of people by focusing on qualities that shine from them.

Everyone has such qualities and it’s a matter of focus and anticipation on my part to capture them.

I follow several technical preferences to help me achieve the desired results. To draw the viewer’s attention to the emotion and expressions of the subject, I shoot with wide-open apertures for shallow depth of field. I like using natural lighting as much as possible because it preserves the natural dimension and contrast in an image. It keeps the subject’s skin tone natural. The telephoto lens is my favorite because it allows me to stay out of the way, yet close enough to capture important moments.

I do emphasize on backgrounds and make sure they have a part to play in the final blend of the image. My backgrounds are kept bright yet not take away focus from the subject. I usually seek out positions that will incorporate people in the background who are watching the subject with interesting expressions. The appropriate backgrounds can enhance the story of an image.

I seek to capture images that flow and narrate a story. I’ve done my job and am rewarded if my models are reminded of the feelings and emotions that they shared in my images.

Here are some ways in which these ideas can be crystalized:

#1: I firmly believe in the unobtrusive style of wedding photography. This is often conducted on my part without the active participation or even knowledge of the subject at hand. These techniques were pioneered in commercial, fashion and documentary photojournalism and I seek to document all precious moments along these guidelines.

#2: Increasingly, today’s savvy brides are demanding a fresher, more spontaneous approach to event photography — one that captures the often subtle, candid and genuine images and emotions of real life as they unfold.

Wedding photojournalism seeks to document your wedding as they are — not by staging and arranging, but by quietly observing and discretely documenting those little moments and scenes that make up the overall theme, or signature of the event.

#3: When you look back on your wedding images, the essence of the event will be characterized less by what people wore, and more by the intimate details that connected people together.

We think of those posed or contrived images look that way to today’s sophisticated brides. There is something uniquely compelling about that one candid moment captured as it occured that simply can’t be staged.

I focus my lenses for those brides who appreciates that difference.

#4: I believe that there is an inherent interest in all of life’s moments. One must simply figure how to capture it before it’s gone. Accomplishing this takes more than the technical mastery of photography. It requires someone skilled in the art of observing and anticipating.

I love to observe and anticipate.

#5: I pledge to retire from photography altogether the day it stops being fun for me OR for my clients.