Styled or Vintage Photography or is it the Printing?
It used to be that wedding photos were pretty much a what you see is what you get proposition. We processed film, the pictures were printed with straight-forward color and brightness. Boom, done. These days however, wedding photos have been given a lot more attention with fun processing and crazy color and texture treatments (in part) because of the amazing Photoshop & Lightroom actions now available. We seem them all over wedding blogs and websites and they end up on our Pinterest boards because of the vibrant color that matched our inspiration boards. How do you get that for YOUR images you wonder?
I realized it was high time I did a blog post about processing and treatments. You see, the idea seems to be prevalent that the actual picture taking is responsible for the “look” of an image. Although this idea might be correct when it comes to “styled props”…. in reality a photo can be given a plethora of different looks and treatments. Each effect will change greatly the mood and style an image projects.
I’ve recently added a section to my website with some treatment samples. This is a work in progress, so check back now and then for more samples.
1 comment March 27th, 2012
