Joshua J Krause Storytelling Wedding Photography

Welcome to Joshua J Krause Photography! I'm a wedding photographer offering couples a unique and passionate storytelling photography experience for your special day. Focusing on mostly candid moments, I adore capturing the joy and sincerity with each couple I work with. Joshua J Krause photography offers two approaches for your wedding day: Documentary Wedding Photography or Traditional Wedding Photography. What exactly is Documentary Wedding Photography? A Documentary Wedding Photographer will tell the story of your day, through candid, unposed images. It allows you to spend ALL of your time with your friends and family. This is a great for intimate weddings, and for couples who feel very uncomfortable with being in front of a camera. What exactly is Traditional Wedding Photography? Traditional wedding photography takes the documentary approach one step further. This style still focuses on storytelling while setting time aside for formal portraits To learn more and view additional wedding galleries, click the arrow on the right side. Enjoy!!

The wedding of Anna Jacob is an example of a traditional wedding with time set aside for formal portraits.

The wedding of April and Heath is another example of my documentary approach. This style allows you to fully celebrate your precious day with family and friends. There was not one posed moment during this wedding.

Bring fun and excitement back to your special day! Traditional wedding photography with formal posed photos can add hours to your day. It can be extremely exhausting for couples. It becomes work instead of a celebration. My style brings back that celebration and allows you to fully celebrate your precious day with family and friends.

One thing I like to do in addition to capturing candid moments is to take the couple on what I call "photo walks." The best time for this is after the wedding service when the couple is still emotionally charged. It's a great time for the couple to reflect on what just happened. It gets the couple away from everyone for a few minutes and lets them bask in the moment. During this time, I’m taking photos while not being intrusive and capturing those desired couple photos in a non posed fashion. Shooting this way, allows for real genuine emotions without the hassle of the photographer telling the couple how to pose.

Telling a story and capturing real heartfelt emotions is very important to me. I want the couple to be at ease and have a great time. Christine had this to say about her experience: “Joshua is an extremely talented photographer. He took our engagement photos and was also our photographer for our wedding day. Josh has a friendly, yet knowledgeable and professional demeanor. He captured our wedding in a very “real” and beautiful way. His working style put my husband and I at ease and the result gave us so many photos that look both candid and glamorous. He gently guided our friends and family into beautiful shots that we will cherish forever. We truly can’t recommend Joshua enough to anyone planning a wedding.” -Christine