Colour or Black & White Wedding Photography?
What’s better, colour or black & white for my wedding photography?
One of the questions I get asked most when meeting future clients is if their photographs will be in colour or black and white. These days we all (well most of us) use Instagram and other social media apps which allow us to filter our photos in our hands creating different looks to otherwise ordinary images.
Black & white photography has been around since the beginning, it’s how it all began.
Colour wasn’t an option, only tone, light and dark and it’s how I learned photography back in school, college and university. Black & white strips back an image to its bare components and can invoke the idea of memory. Your wedding photography will be full of ‘in-between’ glimpses of emotion and reactions throughout the day. I find these images work well in black & white when telling your story. Within an album of colour images, these monochrome moments link the bold and stand out images, guiding you through your wedding story.
Within an album of colour images, these monochrome moments link the bold and stand out images, guiding you through your wedding story.
Colour Wedding photography can be interpreted in so many ways.
As I said before, we all have smartphones and can apply many different filters to our photos (I personally like ‘Juno’), so you may have a strong vision of how a colour image should look. Often a wedding is full of specific colours, you will likely have chosen your flowers based on a colour scheme, or you are sticking to the colour-of-the-year trend. Either way, I want to let those colours pop in your photographs. And so my colour work contrasts deeper shadows along with bold tones.
When all is said and done, there is no right or wrong answer when it comes to colour or black & white only preference.
If you have an idea of what might work for a certain image, or you have created a Pinterest board with different looks, bring these with you when we meet over coffee and let’s talk. I like to think of my wedding photography as a collaboration as well as a service.
