Unique Idea for Formal Wedding Photos

Unique Idea for Formal Wedding Photos

Any artist can serve as your inspiration for your artistically posed wedding photos. If you are having a hard time finding ideas, take a look at artists such as Renoir, Fragonard, and Seurat. A famous painting like "Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" would be a marvelous scene to use as the inspiration for a large bridal party portrait shot outside. "Luncheon of the Boating Party" by Renoir would be another fantastic inspirational painting, and could be adapted for an indoor or outdoor wedding. Of course you will want to change up the original poses as needed so that the faces of all of the members of the bridal party are visible. However, they should not be looking directly at the camera as one would for a standard photo, which would take away from the effect and make the pictures look too much like standard group wedding portraits.
Or what about lining up all of the ladies in the bridal party with their gowns and jewelry in poses which bring to mind the famous images of ballerinas created by Degas? The bridesmaids would not have to stand like ballerinas, but the general arrangement of the ladies could be based on one of those lovely scenes. This same idea would be a wonderful concept for special wedding portraits of the bride and groom. Choose a romantic scene such as one by Fragonard to get you started. If you like, your photographer can even use special editing techniques to make the photographs really look like Old Masters paintings. What an amazing wedding portrait that would make to display in your first home together!