Jon Rouston Wedding Photography - Profile
An insight into the style of Jon Rouston, one of the leading wedding photographers in the East Midlands.
Jon Rouston is one of the leading wedding photographers in the East Midlands area, probably best known as a Nottingham wedding photographer specilising in a contemporary style. However, this profile highlights more than just a simple attempt at contemporary photography, the purpose is to combine contemporary wedding photography with natural and unposed shots. This is a style that is really hard to master well, it is quite easy to take an unposed shot, you just point and click, but the actual composition that is required to take a great shot, worthy of a wedding album, takes skill.
Consider typical traditional wedding photography with several of the major shots taken of posed or semi posed groups, friends of the groom, the brides family and so forth. These are posed shots that are not particularly difficult to capture, if you have the right lens for the light conditions and the backgrounds. By capturing more natural shots, you don't have time to coerce the subjects into position, to create the pose, look away from the camera, look towards the camera, you do have just split seconds to make choices that help you to get great shots. That is the skill, the speed of thought about the camera angle, shutter speed and a million other minute details that all combine to determine as to whether you have just taken an ordinary image or a great picture.
How do you then go about developing such as skill? In part, this is natural, unfortunately you just have it or you don't! Experience counts as well and knowing the type of shot that works, comes with experience. If a story is unfolding before you and you have to capture a specific shot quickly, the camera angle and focus need to be rapidly altered to suit the subject and typically, the shot needs to be taken within a split second. By having experience from previous weddings, you really do understand how the shot should be captured, the angle that will make the shot bespoke and the focus that will fit the situation.
Ultimately, the style the style of Jon Rouston is therefore partly skill based and partly instinctive, the images are designed to reflect the desire of the clients wishes and to capture events as they happen. This is a popular technique for weddings because a bride and Groom will be so rushed that they will have very little time to actually see individual events unfold around them. The contemporary style of wedding photography incorporating unposed shots in a story book manner therefore helps the clients to see specific events of their day that they were not aware of or that existed as a fleeting moment. The purpose of wedding photography is designed to capture images, to hold them as memories and the style of Jon Rouston encapsulates this perfectly.
If you would like to contact Jon Rouston Wedding Photography directly, please call Jon on 0115 714 2137 and please remember to inform him that you saw this profile in Photographers for Weddings.
