Photographers & Video
Staging the perfect wedding is one thing, but it’s another thing entirely to have your day preserved for posterity.
Traditionally, preserving your day used to be limited to a few shots by a professional photographer, but nowadays, the range of options for making sure your memories last is much more diverse.
For a start, video technology is so accessible and refined nowadays that it’s just as easy to have a professional videographer instead of, or in addition to, a conventional photographer recording the day’s events. Check before you book, but invariably, videographers also include editing in their services. The ability to chop out undesirable moments and those moments where nothing much is happening keeps your video really interesting and maintains the continuity and pace of your day.
Videography is great for providing you with a realistic, moving audio including representation of events, but photographs are far more evocative. While being able to watch the proceedings over and over is a luxury, photography has its advantages too; namely, the ability to mount a print in a suitable frame and display it on the wall of your living room or in a smaller frame at work so your loved one can always be near you when your paperwork is piling up!
Further, photographs can be as artistic as you want, while videography was traditionally limited in its ability to apply art to an event. Modern photographers tend to use digital equipment now, and while your domestic digital camera may not be up to much, professional digital cameras give a superb image quality.
The very nature of digital cameras also allows for an immediate preview of images taken, allowing you to to approve your photographs on the day all dressed up and with loved ones around rather than after, when the event and the atmosphere have come and gone.
Moreover, the necessity of a computer at the ‘other end’ means that more photographers are offering the ability to render oil and water colour prints, monochrome and sepia prints, feathering and other such effects to your images.
While a video captures the mood rather than just the physical appearance of the event, rowdy relatives in the background of your wedding video and the various high-jinks generally enjoyed at evening do’s might not be something you care to have in the background when recording your perfect day!
Finally, do check with both your chosen wedding and reception venues that recording is allowed; most venues won’t mind but a few do ask you to refrain from recording in certain places that might disturb other guests, for example.
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