Q: How long have you been shooting weddings? A: Our photographer David, has been shooting weddings for more than a decade, whereas our videographer/photographer and editor, Joe, has been shooting and editing wedding videos for the past 5 years, and the occasional wedding photography. OKPhotos.com was established in 2002 to combine oustanding wedding photography with wedding videography. Q: What approach do you take to wedding photography? A: A mixture of both classic and photojournalistic styles. While our photographer is very good at classic portraiture, he also like to capture a lot of candids throughout the day. However, instead of just giving you a handful of 4x6 prints, we try to tell a story of your wedding, using our very own creation, called the Bixbook™, an elegant 13x19 wedding picture storybook. Beside an artistic and a super nice guy as your photographer, the best camera and lenses in the wedding trade are there to document your big day. Afterwards, we utilize our expertise in digital artistry to adjust the images individually to create a consistent set of excellent photographs of the highest technical quality, picture to picture. Q: What approach do you take to wedding videography? A: Documentary, long-form, with occasional (licensed) background music added, and plenty of guest interviews before and after the ceremony and at the reception. The ceremony is produced in its entirety, usually with 4 or 5 video cameras. While most all other high-end wedding videographers use two video cameras with two operators (only), which enables them to cover the action from two different angles, we chose to use one or two manned cameras, plus 2 to 4 other unmanned cameras, capturing two to three times as much footage, which enables more creative editing, more content-deep editing, later. Two manned cameras might be enough to cover the action, but they miss the reactions of those not in the camera. The reaction of the guests, mom and dad, and even of the groom as the bride is coming down the aisle. Sure, these other guys will pan to the parents once or twice during the ceremony, but reaction can happen any time, hence we always try to put a locked-down camera filming the people in the front row all throughout the ceremony, while still placing two or three cameras on the happy couple. Our goal is to obtain clean, clear, beautiful video footage of your wedding day, as much of it as possible, even in the dimmest chapel and darkest reception hall, using our broadcast-quality cameras with their low-light capabilities, something that many wedding videographers and most amateurs lack. We try to capture everyone in their sunday best, grandparents who might not be long for this world, cute little nieces and nephews who would be growing up soon, and loving friends who might move away at some point. And then the raw footage is edited into a wedding feature WIDESCREEN movie starring YOU. A beautiful musical intro, a story line, smooth elegant transitions, special effects, cinematic soundtracks, moving interviews of friends and family, multiple-camera coverage of the ceremony in its entirety, the reception, and a dramatic ending and closing credit. Your own personal wedding movie, with you and your new spouse, and mom and dad, loving families, and best friends. Something you can watch again and again for years, and eventually sharing it with your future friends, children, grandchildren, and even great grandchildren. Q: Do you come to the rehearsal? A: Most of the time, one of us comes to the rehearsal, in order to scout the ceremony location, lighting, church rules, ceremony flow, etc, to produce the best video possible. However we usually do not stay long, 30 minutes perhaps, just to check things out first hand. On rare occasions the rehearsal night conflicts with another project, in those cases, we would have to arrive earlier on the wedding day instead, and obtain our information then, and/or days before on the phone. If our coming to the rehearsal is important to you, please check with us at contract time, we can usually tell by then whether there will be any conflict. Q: How would you be dressed for our wedding day? A: We require everyone to dress professionally, most of the time all black. However if you should need something more formal, please check with us. Call us at 405-377-5967 day or night to check if your date is available, and we will also be glad to answer any question you have. We cover Stillwater and surrounding areas, OKC and Tulsa, at no additional charge. No travel fee, and clock does not start until we get to your location. Please consider booking at the earliest moment, it will not only secure your date, but a great package deal as well. 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