Through a lens of love
Though many proclaim that wedding photographers aren’t true artists in the vein of photogs who concentrate on carefully composed portraits, I disagree. Capturing a still subject is fairly easy. It’s far more difficult to turn something as chaotic as a wedding into a visually stunning piece of art. Forget the usual pictures of Aunt Edna doing the Chicken Dance and the maid of honor passed out on the dessert table that do little more than tickle the funny bone. Photographer Caroline Yang takes wedding photos that touch the heart.
Have a look at Yang’s black-and-white and color galleries – they are full of gorgeous images of the accoutrements and actors that come together to make happily wedded bliss a reality. Of course, her client list is corporate, so I don’t know which of the weddings she has shot were stage and which were real. But I don’t care. I’m just happy to have spent a lovely few minutes basking in the glow of matrimony Yang captures so wonderfully.
Those are gorgeous photos, NtB! Color or B/W, they rock.
I love how in almost all of the group shots, it seems that Yang snapped the pictures just before everyone was ready to say “Cheese.” So all the people involved look genuinely happy rather than ‘camera happy.’
I like the subjects of these photos – i.e. the shoes, the invites. They’re quiet poetry on their own and would otherwise not get much camera time on the big day.