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When I meet with clients, usually there is only one question from the Mother of the Bride, usually while worryingly rubbing her hands together, “do you still do the standard pictures at the church?” \u00a0When I tell her that I absolutely still do them, the sigh of relief is almost palpable as those shots are really important to Moms. \u00a0I jokingly call them “Mom Shots” because if I don’t get them, Moms are usually the first ones to be upset. \u00a0While I do not always do them in the church (I can’t stress enough how going even outside on the steps in front of the church can make for much better images!) I still ALWAYS do the standard posed shots. \u00a0In non-photographer terms, they are the pictures with the families and bridal party after the wedding, the standard one-two-three-smile! pictures that everyone dreads after a wedding. \u00a0 They don’t take long but after the wedding is over, having even ONE shot of everyone looking at the camera and smiling can be priceless. \u00a0The above picture of Kristin and her Dad isn’t going to win any awards, but years from now, Kristin’s still going to look back on that picture and smile because she has that one nice shot of her and her Dad on her wedding day smiling at the camera.<\/p>\n
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It’s kind of a personal reason why these pictures are so important to me. \u00a0As you may know from reading my blog, my immediate family is all deceased. \u00a0Pictures are all I really have left of them and us as a family. \u00a0Sadly though, there aren’t many of them. \u00a0I have one shot from my Aunt’s wedding that is blurry and barely recognizable and one image from Christmas (above with my Grandmother) and that’s it of me and my family as a whole, smiling at the camera. \u00a0Even with my first wedding, the photographer didn’t take any standard pictures of me and my Dad smiling at the camera, he had us pose and fake stuff (putting the veil on etc) rather than take a nice portrait of us together. \u00a0Even though the above shot isn’t remotely formal, or professional it’s still all I’ve got. \u00a0Who knows, maybe I wouldn’t even be a photographer had my family made it a point to go to a studio every few years to get a nice picture of us together… but we didn’t. \u00a0So during a wedding, I toss my photojournalist hat aside and make sure that for that half hour, I’m making sure for that moment in time you have awesome pictures of your family frozen forever (bonus is that you all will look amazing since you’re fancied up!).<\/p>\n
Regardless if you book me, or someone else – make sure you get the standard portraits. \u00a0You never want to look back and wish you had one nice posed shot of you and a loved one. Instead, you want to look at it and be happy you have it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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