Wedding Photography Terminology Melbourne

Congratulation you are engaged. Do you meet some photographers before? I am assuming you have lots of terminology are confused. Today I will list the most popular wedding photography vocabularies in Melbourne.

Candid Wedding Photography

Recently, Natural and candid wedding photography is a most famous wedding photography style in Melbourne.

The Natural and Candid Wedding Photography Style is capturing the relax and fill of happiness wedding vibe and moments without any interruption from wedding photographer or videographer.  The Natural and Candid Wedding Photographers find the best location and the best light for couples and rarely staged or posed, but captured at real time.

Rustic Wedding Photography

Rustic Wedding Photography is photographers take photos in a simple and natural countryside locations. The aim of Rustic wedding photography is to give couple natural surrounding and simplistic vintage photography style. Normally, Rustic Wedding Photographers prefer to choose the location having haystack, old truck, cornfield, vineyard and wheelbarrows as photography backdrop.

Fine Art Wedding Photography

Fine Art Photography can be traced to the 1940s.

The aim of fine-art photography is to deliver an idea, a message, or an emotion from photographer(s). In contrast to photojournalism or documental photography, Fine-art Photography is the goal to express subjective intent of the photographers.

Classic / Traditional Wedding Photography

Traditional / Classic Wedding Photography is not only let the couples have posy photo shoot, and also use very predictable angles for photography.

Documental / Photojournalist Wedding Photography

Documental / Photojournalist wedding photography provides a documentary visual account of couples and weddings, literally representing wedding day reality.

Editorial Wedding Photography

Editorial Wedding Photography style is a magazine photography style. Editorial wedding photography means photographers shoot creatively and over the top. Normally Editorial wedding photography style more use the portrait photos.

Low-Key Wedding Photography

Low-key photography is a style of photography consisting of shooting dark-colored scenes. This style of photography emphasizes on the body sharp or the suits of groom. Normally, low-key photography is used in the groom getting ready.

High-Key Wedding Photography

High-Key Photography is a style of photography consisting of shooting bright-colored science.  But the high-key photography is not overexposed everything. This photography style is used to emphasize on the subject, or subject’s emotion. High-key Photography style is normally used in the bride getting ready.

Golden Hour

Golden hour is the magical time, normally is half hour before sunset. It is the most perfect time for photographs.

During the golden hour, the light is softer than the middle day.  The wedding photographers could have a soft glow. The couple will avoid strong shadows and squinty eyes.

Sunset Photography

Sunset wedding photography is the photography style capturing every bit of romance of wedding day.

Single Portrait Wedding Photography

Wedding photographer should shoot Single Portrait wedding photos during groom and bridal getting or during wedding photography locations. The Photo is only captured one person each time.

Handcraft Wedding Photography Album

Handcraft Wedding Photography Albums mean handmade photo albums.

Fine art Wedding Photography Album

Fine art Wedding Photography Album is a type of photography album using fine art printing technology.  The Fine Art Printing uses more than 12 colors at the printer and printing resolution is more than 12,000 dpi, comparing the normal printing just has 4 color and 250 dpi. Fine Art wedding photo album with outstanding color reproduction, the album will show rich color and detailed. The album will let the couple to treasure the album for couple of years to come.  

Aerial Wedding Photography

Aerial wedding photography means the wedding photos will be captured by a drone or aerial. It will show different and unique angle for your wedding photos.

Pre-wedding Consultation

We normally suggest the couple come to studio have a meeting with photographer or videographer. We need to go through all the details of the wedding day and take attention to every special and traditional moments. And photographer or videographer will provide some idea or suggestions to the couple such as wedding location, wedding timeline, etc.

Cheesy Pose

Cheesy Pose means the out of date pose or some weird pose.  The photo will show the fake and pretend laugh.  

Travel Costs

Travel costs is the surcharge for photographer if your wedding venues is 20 or 30 km away from the studio.

Every photographer will charge you different rates for the travel costs. Some photographer not mentioned the travel costs until near you big day.

But at Moments to Life, we will give you the final price before you make decision.

High-Resolution Wedding Photography

The High-Resolution Wedding photos mean the couple can use the photos to print at any printing store. Not necessary print the wedding photos from the wedding photographer.

Some wedding photographers in Melbourne will charge the extra fees for the high-resolution photos.

But at Moments to Life, we will provide all high-resolution photos for the couple booked us.

No Watermark Photos

All the photos show online have watermarks.

Some extra fees will be charged if the couple ask no watermark wedding photos from some wedding photographers in Melbourne.

But at Moments to Life, the final production of wedding photos are no watermark photos on USB.

Color Correction Photos

All the raw photos are plate and grey. The reason is wedding photographers need to give the editor more space to do retouch.

At Moments to Life, we will provide all photos enhanced and printable.  The color correction is to let the photo more colorful at the true color level compare with the retouch is to do some change for the color and make the photos more follow the recently fashion.

Black and White Photography

Black and white photography is the whole photo just use black and white color instead of the real color.

Same Day Editing Photography

Some couples require to have the wedding photography slideshow during reception in Melbourne. It means the couple need have same day editing photography. The wedding photographer take the photo shoot during the daylight, and editor will choose the photos and add music to the slideshow and will display to big screen during wedding reception.

Extra Cost

Extra cost means the photographer will add some charges on the top of the normal package, but the amount of fees will let the couple know before the couple make a decision.

At Moments to Life, the extra cost is travel costs, adding one album cost etc.

Hiding Cost

Hiding Cost is the charges from wedding photographer after the couple sign up the contract or even after wedding day. The hiding cost is common on wedding photographers in Melbourne.

Some wedding photographer will charge the couple a big amount of hiding cost for any reason before or after wedding day. For example, if the couple want to have high-resolution photos, some photographer will charge around $500 without any notice.

At Moments to Life, we will not charge any hiding cost. We will let the couple know the package clearly before sign up the contract.

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