Albert Lea MN Photographer for Wedding and Engagement Sessions

You have announced your engagement and you are now looking to hire a wedding photographer in the Twin Cities. You want the best moments immortalized on camera, without posing. You are looking for a natural and timeless classy style of pictures that would reflect the elegant side of your event. You value photography and are looking for an experienced and talented professional who could handle any kind of unexpected situation. You have no experience with weddings, and you would appreciate someone to support you during this day, helping you to make it simple and easy. Then welcome! Let me introduce you to my work.

Our Photography

10 Hours Coverage to Tell Your Story

If you are looking for a photographer for “just a few pictures at the church and some group pictures,” then you are not in the right place. At French Touch Photography, we consider that wedding photography is exciting when it tells your story. Thus, we consider ourselves storytellers.

As a result, our smallest package includes 10 hours to unlimited reportage. Ten hours is usually enough to catch pictures of the bride getting ready up to the party and dances.

Interaction Instead of Awkward Poses

Most of our clients don’t want to pose in front of a camera. Thus they hire a professional wedding photographer to have their ceremony in the Twin Cities captured, but also to be naturally directed during their photo session. We know how weird it is to stop an action and to look at the photographer with a large fake smile. As a result, we have developed simple techniques to make you feel at ease. We ask you to play games and to interact with each other. In consequence, you have fun, and we can catch natural images.

Pre-Wedding Session

We have included a photo session prior to your wedding in all our packages for several reasons:

• It gives our clients a first experience of having their portrait taken. Basically, you are like students learning what to do and what to avoid. Don’t worry, it’s pretty simple. Thus on the wedding day you don’t lose time and have better pictures sooner.
• Having this experience helps you to expect the session, resulting in lower stress, and thus better pictures.
• That allows you to validate your choice. Given we will follow you for at least 10 hours, you want to make sure our personalities match.
• That would increase our mutual confidence (your photographer also is a human and needs to be at ease), and your trust in your professional. Thus, if he asks you anything that sounds weird on your big day, you would trust him beyond doubt.
• Finally, we also offer you the option to cancel the contract without questions, if it does not satisfy you after the session. That’s a kind of “try me for free” argument that no other photography company offers, but that is essential!

Albert Lea offers several great nature locations to have a portrait taken, such as the Myre-Big Island State Park, Bancroft Bay Park, Fountain Lake, have fun with the Freeborn County Historical Museum, Library & Village.

If you want complementary historical urban landscape for your photos, use Broadway, Clark Street, William Street, Washington Avenue and Newton Avenue. Let’s think of the State Bank building, the pride of the city. If you prefer modern landscape, probably drive a few miles to Saint Paul.

Quiet Photographer

During a ceremony, the wedding photographer captures memories of your mutual engagement without being noticed. He works quietly, without attracting attention. We especially understand the restrictions and limitations that some churches have. We avoid using flash when it’s possible. In a general manner, we prefer the stolen shots that are more natural and more powerful.

Hundreds of Candid Shots of Your Friends and Relatives

Best memories of your wedding in Minneapolis would probably be candid shots. Check this wedding at the Saint Paul Athletic Club in St Paul, Minnesota. Despite the bride and the groom having over 300 guests, they have candid shots of all of them. We value the veracity of the photography medium, and we agree with the concept of the decisive moment, from the French photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson.

Good photography is an alignment of the photography equipment, the operator’s eye and the heart. We take pictures where your guests look great, and that reflects their personality.

Low Light Environment

A celebration in a low light environment, such as this wedding at Aster Cafe (Minneapolis, Minnesota) creates a warm and intimate atmosphere. They usually use candles or vintage light bulbs with tungsten filaments. That’s also a very common trick used by the venue or caterer to focus the attention on the flavors of the plate, instead of having guests gazing at the venue’s decoration. Being able to shoot in a low light environment is complicated in photography. Only the most experienced photographers can handle it!

Artistic Pictures With Cinematic Lighting

When you host your celebration in a sublime venue (such as the Marjorie McNeely Conservatory, St Paul, MN), it’s easy for your photographers to take advantage of it. But that’s more complicated if your venue looks like a meeting room. That’s precisely the case in most golf clubs and convention centers. We have developed techniques to create astonishing pictures even in a “basic” location. For that we can set up staged pictures involving studio flashes, with color gels and some props (smoke bombs, mirror reflection, etc.).

Vanity Fair-Style Group Pictures

If we love candid shots, something we like to do is staging cinematic group pictures that look like paintings. To create such a piece of art, we use some studio lighting techniques. Without being bossy, we give directions to people so they look great. It’s usually a moment of entertainment. That’s the kind of picture that would make your wedding unique and please your friends. We use furniture, give you directions to stage a perfect Vanity Fair-style group picture with your families and your bridal party.

Products and Services

Who Are We?

Locations Served

Based in Rochester, MN, we capture not only wedding portraits but also advertising photography in the Southwest of the 10,000 Lakes State, Wisconsin and Iowa. We offer free transportation fees for the first 60-mile round trip of travel around Saint Paul and Rochester.

We also serve other locations such as Mankato, Faribault, Northwood, Waseca, Austin, Owatonna, Mason City, Duluth, Winona, Red Wing, Waseca, Plymouth, White Bear Lake, Anoka, Brainerd, Columbia Heights, Blue Earth, Saint Cloud, Washington County, Wisconsin Dells.

Conclusion

If you are hosting a wedding ceremony or a simple celebration and want all the best moments immortalized with our camera, just call us!