Ask Anything :: Do you only photograph weddings?

 

This question has been asked of us a lot lately. More than ever before really, and we couldn’t figure out why. It seems, as the industry morphs and adapts to the ever growing number of photographers, it’s becoming more and more important to find one’s niche. “Specialize in something” they say. Decide which vein of photography you are best at, enjoy the most, or frankly the one that is most profitable for your business and stick with it. As this advice is passed out, more and more photographers are making huge efforts to rebrand, and making big announcements revealing their declared specialty. We’re guessing this movement is where the influx of “do you only photograph weddings?” question is coming from. Maybe because we haven’t made a major announcement in regard to our specialty, folks are waiting for that blog post of ours? We’re not sure, but today we’re answering this question. (Although, we hope our website and blog give it away)

Our answer: We exclusively photograph weddings. We are wedding photographers, and it’s all we’ve ever been in this photography jungle. Five years ago when we threw common sense out the window, quit our jobs and decided to make a go of this business, we had absolutely no doubt that we wanted to photograph weddings, and that’s precisely what we set out to do. Oh sure, we tried it all, but we realized very early on we were not cut our for most types of photography. Families? Nope. Newborns? Love babies, hate taking their photos. Corporate head shots? Not our thing. Real Estate? Oh please no. Weddings? Yes! Real live love stories? We’ll take all you can give us. The wind in her veil, the smile in his heart, and everything in between that tells the story of that one day… all of that is what we love to photograph. Wedding photography found us, and we’re exactly where we belong.

We want to give our couples an experience above and beyond the standard. Our goal has always been to specialize, and master the art of wedding photography. Narrow in on this one area, and give it all of our attention and focus. We have never wanted to spread ourselves too thin, and from the first wedding we ever photographed together, we have made our couples’ experience the most important aspect of our business. And you see… it’s really the people we love the most. The couples we have the privilege of working with, they make the stories we get to tell with our cameras. They make us love what we do. They always have.

Yes, we photograph engagement sessions as a part of the photography experience we provide to all of the couples we work with. These photos are exactly the type of portraits we’ll take on their wedding day, and these engagement sessions prepare everyone for the big event. In today’s wedding photography industry, engagement sessions are a no brainer.

So then what about our Plume Boudoir studio? On rare occasions, and almost exclusively for our Brides only, we photograph Bridal boudoir sessions. These shoots are extremely similar to the bridal suite portraits taken on a wedding day, and is one more way we connect with our Brides. In all, we photograph a handful of bridal boudoir sessions a year. This little studio came as a result of several Brides pushing for us to start offering boudoir photography just for them, and so we did!

Maternity sessions? Even more rare are the maternity sessions we photograph. Sometimes we publish them on our blog, however most of the time we don’t. Because we adore the couples we work with, and because we’ll take any excuse to hang out with them again, we do offer maternity sessions for any of our previous couples. As their journey continues into parenthood, we’re honored to finish our photography journey with them by documenting this moment in their lives… the last time it’s just the two of them. Again, these sessions are not offered to the public, only to former Brides and Grooms.

We’ve always been wedding photographers. And we keep going back for more. Always digging deeper, growing, working hard to live up to our own expectations of what we want from ourselves. It’s always been weddings, we doubt that will ever change.