I just read this article by wedding stylist Lauren Johnson. It covered something that I have been thinking a lot about. The gist of the article is that pro wedding photographers are moving back to using traditional style portraits. This trend was brought to the fore front when Mario Testino released the wedding portraits from Prince William and Kate Middleton. The images were not shot in a rustic urban setting, they did not have the vintage film look, and they were posed very conservatively.
This look goes back to my style of wedding portraits. I like to shoot traditional style. Give a timeless look to the images. Will these trendy looks survive the test of time or will they become cliche' and outdated. When we look at wedding photos from the 80's and 90's we can tell if they were taken during those years because of the trendy looks they had. Sometimes these images are mocked for how dated the styling is. What will we think if 20 or 30 years from now we look back at the images from this time period? Will we mock them for being so "instagramy"?
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