Monday, 30 June 2008
On the 3rd June I wrote a beautiful piece of nonsense on modern wedding photography. I think it must have been one of those afternoons where I'd loaded too many grounds into my cafetiere and not eaten enough that morning. Nonetheless, looking back at my previous post the stream of consciousness I tapped into did contain some fairly impressive points. Well in my opinion anyway. I am sitting here now looking at the screen and wondering whether the same thing is about to happen whilst I discuss the world of contemporary wedding photography. I mean, really it amounts to the same thing. Contemporary and modern are words which can be interchanged. Maybe I'll check the difference in their definitions to see if that adds another dimension to the concepts.OK, so to make this absolutely fair I'll use the same dictionary for both words and I'll take the 1st definition in the case of several being offered (not that I'm claiming this to be a particularly scientific investigation). "Modern" then is defined as being "of or pertaining to present and recent time, not ancient or remote". "Contemporary" is listed as "of the present time".
Well there you go. No need for further investigation really. The two words are interchangeable. So if you want your wedding pictures to be of a current style then feel free to use contemporary wedding photography or modern wedding photography. I'll know what you mean. Having said that one of the things I do as part of my service is to meet with the Bride and Groom before any pictures are taken so we can discuss exactly what you want to achieve with your portfolio.
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