We get asked whether we shoot digital or film, less and less, but it still happens from time to time. We even had a specific request recently for us to shoot film. But why would we ever shoot film again?!?! Shooting digitally allows us to change ISO on the fly, avoid missing key moments due to changing rolls, and most importantly, to bring our work directly into our digital darkroom.
We pride ourselves on the post-processing that we apply to every image that we print or place in an album, often spending hours enhancing our images, much the way a lapidary cuts and polishes a gemstone to produce a finished diamond suitable for a wedding ring. The things we do range from cosmetic retouching, to vignetting, dodging and burning, color toning and conversions to b&w, sepia and duotones, and more.
We do this work full-time and view ourselves as storytellers and artists foremost, and we view our photography as a tool we employ toward that goal. We are looking for only a few dozen commissions per year, and we yearn to produce big, fat, magazine-style contemporary albums which artistically evoke the spirit of our clients' wedding celebrations.
Check out the following image from Jen & Noah's Engagement Portrait Session, presented first as it was shot SOOTC and then below, as a fully-worked, finished art print. One of the things that post-processing did was to bring out the blurred tiger lily that our wide-open 85mm lens had captured directly in front of their faces, which created a warm, orange glow reminiscent of a lens flare.
