My style as a wedding photographer is innovative and intuitive…

and is very deeply rooted in candid photojournalism…

My style as a wedding photographer can also include portrait photography, as I have studied the art of portraiture and I know it well. How much or how little we would do is up to you…

I believe a photography session should not be lifeless and static. It has been said it is a dance of the souls…

And I believe in being playful and having fun…

And, if you like the look of it, I include a little infrared for an added dimension…

And to round out your wedding day story, I include editorial coverage as well…

And I think my vision as a wedding photographer is fully realized with my customized and totally unique Designer Storybook album…

For more about my style as a wedding photographer, please visit my html site: www.deremus.com.

To see more of my photography, please  cruise my blog postings and visit my main wedding, engagement session and portrait galleries on my flash website.

DeRemus Photography is a Pasadena based wedding, portrait and fine art photographer and offers service to all of Southern California including the San Gabriel Valley, Los Angeles, Orange County and Santa Barbara and is available for destination weddings worldwide.

All photography and text are copyright David DeRemus Photography and can not be removed from this site or reproduced without prior, express written consent.

Glossary of photography style terms:

Editorial Photography:

Editorial photography is based on creating photographs to support the printed word, as in magazine or newspaper articles. So in the truest since, editorial photography can include portraits, photojournalism, candid and even product photography.

For a professional wedding photographer, it usually means set up photographs with defined compositions and controlled lighting, of anything from the rings and bouquets, the gown, details of the gown and even the shoes. And can also include  pictures of the wedding site, reception room, table tops or any other thing that maybe significant to the day. In other words, the details of the day, no matter how large or small, to provide another element of the story of your wedding day.

Infrared Photography:

In infrared photography, the film or digital image sensor used is sensitive to infrared  light. A type of light not visible to the naked eye.

When using either digital infrared or infrared-sensitive film, very interesting “in-camera effects” can be obtained and further enhanced and defined when using digital; false-color  or black-and-white images with a dreamlike or sometimes lurid appearance known as the “Wood Effect,” an effect mainly caused by foliage (such as tree leaves and grass) strongly reflecting in the same way visible light is reflected from snow. Or buildings made out of concrete or stucco taking on a glowing effect.

The other attributes of infrared photographs include very dark skies and penetration of atmospheric haze. The dark skies, in turn, result in less infrared light in shadows and dark reflections of those skies from water, and clouds will stand out strongly. These wavelengths also penetrate a few millimeters into skin and give a milky look to portraits, although eyes often look black and men almost always show a heavy 5:00 shadow. If being used to photograph people, it is best suited for use in environmental portraiture or photojournalism.

Digital camera sensors are inherently sensitive to infrared light which makes them ideal for conversion to shoot infrared. Infrared can be photographed in either color or black and white although the most popular look is black and white. It is also great for conversion to duo-toned and sepia and prints.

Photojournalism:

According to Wikipedia, photojournalism is a particular form of journalism (the collecting, editing, and presenting of news material for publication or broadcast) that creates images in order to tell a news story. It is now usually understood to refer only to still images, but in some cases the term also refers to video used in broadcast journalism. Photojournalism is distinguished from other close branches of photography (such as documentary photography, street photography or celebrity photography) by the qualities of:
*Timeliness — the images have meaning in the context of a recently published record of events.
*Objectivity — the situation implied by the images is a fair and accurate representation of the events they depict in both content and tone.
*Narrative — the images combine with other news elements to make facts relatable to the viewer or reader on a cultural level.

Photojournalism for the practice of illustrating news stories began sometime between 1880 and 1897. It is not known exactly when wedding photojournalism came into being, although what is know is as that as film qualities started to improve significantly in the 1980′s, it allowed professional wedding photographers to be able to supplement their use of the large and slow to focus medium format cameras, with the smaller and much faster 35mm cameras. The use of these cameras then opened up a the world of wedding candid photography. Then, as more and more candid pictures were being taken and presented to clients, the art of candid wedding photography became established. Sometime in the early 1990′s, wedding photojournalism became in style in Europe, then caught on in the US, and was done primarily in black and white. Throughout the nineties, the style became so popular both in Europe and the US, it allowed for the advent of the wedding photojournalist, which were photographers who provided wedding coverage using photojournalism only.

Faux-tojournalism:

Faux-tojornalism, which is also known as controlled candid, are images that have a look of being candid and photojournalism but in reality, the subject or subjects have been given or are being given direction from the photographer.

Portraiture or portrait photography:

Portrait photography or portraiture is the capture by means of photography of the likeness of a person or a small group of people (a group portrait), in which usually the face and expression is predominant. The objective is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the subject. With the most common known type of portraiture, the focus of the photograph is the person’s face, although the entire body and the background may be included.

Another type of portraiture, is environmental portraiture, where the object is to photograph a person, or group of people in a particular setting. And is typically done to show a relationship between the subjects and the environmental setting.

A portrait is generally not a snapshot, but a composed image of a person in a still position. A portrait often shows a person looking directly at the camera. Some professional photographers have learned how to tweak this dramatically. For an example of this style of portraiture, see the images at the top of this page. Yes, those images came out of my portrait session with this couple… Or further down the (above) page, check out the two images below the couple in the church interior. Again, these are a pictures from a portrait session.

Unlike many other photography styles, the subjects of portrait photography are often non-professional models. Family portraits commemorating special occasions, such as weddings, pregnancies or new additions to a family, may be professionally produced or may be vernacular and are most often intended for private viewing rather than for public exhibition.

However, many portraits are created for public display ranging from fine art portraiture, to commercial portraiture such as might be used to illustrate a company’s annual report, to promotional portraiture such as might be found on a book jacket showing the author of the book.

While photojournalism can be done “on the fly” using only available light or on the camera flash, professional portraiture typically involves multiple lighting sources, even if done out of the studio, for instance at a wedding.

When portrait photographs are composed and captured, the professional photographer has control over the lighting of the composition of the subject and can adjust direction and intensity.

Proper lighting, lighting techniques, composition, rules of thirds, golden rectangles, “Nautilus Spirals”, posing styles, posing techniques and the appropriate equipment, are all essential elements of professional portrait photography.

Professional portrait photographers who are up current with the lighting methods and techniques used in today’s  portraiture created on location (not in a studio), have learned techniques allowing them to create images that the look of studio portraiture 2 or 3 light setups using just 1 off camera strobe and then controlling the ambient light using their camera’s ISO and aperture settings. And of course we also know that sometimes the natural ambient light, just as it is, can be just perfect.