Brides! Special Alert! Caution! Orlando brides who read this blog article will learn dangerous information about their photographer. Brides who read these words could feel their entire concept of wedding photography transformed forever!
Sterling International Photography means more to brides than just pictures. Look into the heart of a committed, professional photographer in the words below–if you dare.
A Photographer’s Open Letter To Brides
Dear Brides–Next to the groom, your family, and your best friends, your wedding photographer is the most important person at your wedding. Why? Although these seem to be bold words, remember, you will always share the memories of your special day through the eyes of your wedding photographer.
We are often inspired by the words of Dorthea Lange, the great photographer, who said, “Beauty appears when one feels deeply. 
Art is an act of total attention.”
Lack of attention to detail can often result in photographs that look like everyone else’s. We are sure you have seen that mediocre style of wedding photography; its as if the photographer is just coasting through the event, not engaging with it.
We invite you to take another look at the warmth and beauty expressed by the opening image on the blog page, leading to this blog.
Taken shortly after the close of the ceremony, Sterling uses gentle prompts, not stiff poses, to illustrate the “light and the heat” of the new couple.
Photographers: Empowering Brides To Time-Travel
Dear Brides–Your wedding day will be a whirl, and you might miss a thousand special moments. That is why you need a professional.
With professional photography, you can re-live the moments you barely remember or you can see all the details that flew by in a blur of excitement.
In time, your children’s children will see these images—and they will be cherished.
Sterling International Photography specializes in the expert capture of rare, fragile and unforgettable, wedding moments–
the tender ones, the formal ones, the casual ones, even the funny ones.
We feel that moments of genuine emotion deserve to be captured by eyes that are experienced, trained, and artistic.
This is not to say that Aunt Edna can’t get a lucky shot with her little flip phone.
However, for a consistent story of your wedding day, you need a trained and experienced professional whose images will help you travel through time to enjoy, long after the wedding day.
Put simply, the successful wedding photographer is engaged in the moment-by-moment life of the bride’s special day.
R.J. Sterling connects with brides on an almost spiritual level that results in artistic images of authentic and emotional moments.
In the last 25 years, wedding photography has changed markedly.
The really great photographic artists don’t depend simply on trends and fads or the latest cute pins on Pinterest.
WPPI (Wedding and Portrait Photography International) Conference keynote speaker, Sue Bryce, stated the mission of the artistic, involved, passionate wedding photographer: She said,”…you reveal to them who they are.” And she added, “It’s a powerful experience for both client and photographer. ”
7 Secrets of Great Wedding Photographers
1. Timeless Work: Great wedding photographers know about the timeless techniques of fashion, photo-journalism, portrait, editorial, and formal work.
They do not box in their creativity by choosing just one technique when they can master all of them.
2. Authoritative Skills: In less time than the blink of an eye (1/100th of a second,) they know which style is required within a given moment.
3. Excellent Equipment: They know which angle to use, the lens to choose, and the mysteries of light and shadow.
4. Flexible Endurance: They can plan a complex moment of artistic vision or they can shoot from the hip.
5. Great Communication Skills: They are as quick with perception as they are with focus and proper shutter speed.
6. Like chameleons, the great wedding photographers can change their style to fit the occasion, the wedding venue, and the moment.
J.R. Sterling can blend in quietly with the crowd or liven up a moment with animated style and energetic personality.
7. The Biggest Secret: Great wedding photographers simply see the wedding day story unfold, not only through their experienced eyes, but through the eyes of the bride. The Wedding and Portrait Photographers International (WPPI ) keynote speaker, 2016, Sue Bryce, said to wedding photographers, “you reveal to them who they are.” And she added, “It’s a powerful experience for both client and photographer.”
At Sterling International Photography, we always think of the special wedding day connection between brides and their photographers when we hear certain lines from the 1986 song, by Peter Gabriel, “In Your Eyes.”
…Without a noise, without my pride,
I reach out from the inside.
In your eyes, The light, the heat,
In your eyes, I am complete…
In your eyes, I see the doorway to a thousand churches
In your eyes, The resolution of all the fruitless searches
In your eyes, I see the light and the heat
In your eyes, Oh, I want to be that complete.
I want to touch the light,
the heat I see in your eyes.”
We touch the light with cameras and pixels, so that, later, the bride can slow down time. She will be able to experience moments she might have missed in the blur of energy, love, and light of the day. Likewise, the photographs will lead her through the memorable moments of her day.
J.R. Sterling “reaches out from the inside,” to see the excitement and beauty of the bride’s special day, not only through her eyes, but through her heart.
