We’ve been talking about shooting a wedding on the iPhone for most of this year (We’ve already shoot an engagement shoot on one). Anyone that knows us, knows how much we love shooting on our iPhone.
In fact our main wedding photographer Adam Bronkhorst has even written a book on using Smartphones and Apps for photography. This is due to be published in the UK and the US next year.
We wanted to be the first professional photographers to shoot and edit a wedding on the iPhone and have been banging on about it for most of the year. However we’re had such a busy year that we haven’t gotten round to pulling our fingers out and pushing this idea.
In the mean time a couple of American photographers have actually gone and done this!!!! We’re really pleased that it’s been achieved and people are taking iPhone photography seriously enough, so it’s a massive hat’s off to them, for actually managing to do so.
A while ago we shot the super sweet Brett & Lucy’s wedding with Toy Cameras and Lomo Cameras. (Watch this space for the blog post and images, we promise to post them soon). While shooting this, we also used the iPhone to take pictures throughout the day.
It did feel a bit strange standing at the front during the ceremony and shooting on an iPhone as well as taking the signing of the register photos, not to mention standing in front of 80 or so guests for the main group shot and holding an iPhone up!!!!
All of the images here have been shot and edited on the iPhone. They have only gone near a computer to get them online on the blog. We love using apps like Instagram and Hipstamatic so much that we edited the images with Instagram to give them that very popular iPhone feel to them.
We are really pleased with the results though, and although this isn’t strickly speaking shooting the whole wedding on just iPhones, it was shooting a paying clients wedding with the iPhone. We learnt a whole load about using the iPhone to shoot a wedding and would really like the oppertunity to tackle a full wedding head on and using what we know about shooting with phone’s and apps. After all we are probably the only wedding photographers who have written a book on shooting with SmartPhones and Apps.
If you love your iPhone or shooting with your phone, or actually love anything experimental with photography, and want to chat to us about shooting your wedding in a slightly unusual way, please please please do contact us………we would LOVE to hear from you!!!!!!
We love these pictures! They look just like they have been taken using a professional camera rather than an iPhone. It would be very strange having your wedding photographer taking pictures on an iPhone but if it is done properly, it works!
Not sure we could take pictures like these on our iPhones…we will leave it to the professionals!!!
Hello Chaps
I love my iPhone more than the next man but this is nonsense.
Whilst it might be rather nice to have a few shots taken on a phone, I think it’s just far too gimmicky.
Hello Stewart,
Thanks for your comment.
We knew it wouldn’t be for everyone, but wanted to experiment with the way that weddings are shot and see what else could be done. We are hopefully showing that a professional photographer can take good photos with a bad camera.
We wouldn’t advocate shooting every wedding on an iPhone, far from it. But wanted to see if it was possible. It may be that one couple love their iPhones so much and want this, but we imagine most will like it, but never want anything like it (hopefully they can see that you can be different).
It’s also a testament to where the cameras in phones are right now that this is possible and at the same we learnt a whole load about shooting in this way.
Impressive and really interesting to see your results – some lovely shots there! Don’t think I’d quite cut it with my 3GS though…
Wow – well done Viva, a very brave move! These photos are amazing, they look fantastic and have captured Brett & Lucy’s wedding day in a really natural way. And I love that they trusted you to do this too – what a cool couple. Mainly though I think this collection really serves to show that the creativity and talent comes from the person, not the kit they’re using. Not everyone with an iphone could do this – not at all!
Nice – but only as an addition. They haven’t got the same quality and clarity as a conventional DSLR camera.
Sorry but they don’t look like they have been taken with a professional camera at all.
Wendy
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Oh bugger,
I know I shouldn’t look at things on my phone, I now come across as a complete bastard, I was referring to the other iPhone only stuff ( with all the expensive addons and lenses) , not your work.
I think you know me well enough that I’m not in the habit of logging onto sites and just slagging off their hard work.
Next time I see you, beers are on me.
Stew
Hi, I don’t have a problem with the medium you’ve used to capture these images, but do you really think that using a sub standard tool to capture images of one of the most important days of someones life is doing them justice. You’ve not just helped to undermine the memories of their most precious day, but actually have joined a small ( and hopefully short lived band), and idiotic group that thinks it’s cool or ‘experimental’ to not provide the best quality photographs that a PROFESSIONAL photographer should. Sell your Hasselblad and retire please and do us hard working guys a big favour. And by the way – I wouldn’t buy these photographs, they show a lack of understanding of the basics of good photography. Maybe you should stick to a good old DSLR
Go and photograph some traffic cones or something less important – You photography stinks.
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