Film vs Digital Wedding Photography

So when does digital photography versus film matter? Reality is that film and digital photographs can be equally convincing in the hands of a competent wedding photographer. A photographer’s workflow will greatly influence the look of your finished prints.

Advantages of film photography (especially medium format film photography) over digital are mostly in the look and feel of the photographs that film photography creates – truly a romantic notion, given today’s new advanced technology that we use at Lux. From a technical aspect film has a wider dynamic range than digital. This means than in high contrast scenes film has the edge. Here, however, as far as wedding and event photography is concerned, this is where all film photography advantages over digital photography end.

Digital wedding photography has many benefits that increase workflow and ease of use, which allows the photographer to shoot more frames without the expense of film and development, which can translate into a more complete coverage, and even savings for a budget conscious client. Advantages of digital wedding photography include faster post-production, ease for posting online, high-resolution digital negatives in the form of a DVD, and more photos that can be taken on the day of the wedding. Digital wedding photographers have been known to take thousands of images in a single day. Digital retouching that is quicker and more efficient with digital photography in the hands of an expert can create amazing results that may make bridal photography look like an editorial at a fancy glamor magazine.

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