Reportage Wedding Photography is still thought by many to be a recent trend in wedding photography. In fact it has a long heritage and was often called candid photography in the context of a wedding. Seen by extreme traditionalists (a rare breed now) as a new fad, it was felt to threaten the supremacy of the medium format camera with its staged shots and posed set ups.
In the old style, photographers always had a big camera set up on a tripod and even a hood over the head of the photographer. This very formal and very posed art of portraiture was born, like so many of today's cultural norms, of technological limitations. Way back when, photographic technology required long exposure times, long winded plate or film changes and "keep still" poses. Fast 35 mm film basically solved this problem, again with certain
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