Every wedding photographer has different styles, but there are a few tricks in the arsenal of every photographer that can make photographs look completely unconventional. While some photogs choose to create effects through computer programs like Photoshop, others choose to take photos using cameras or lenses that create the effect. Probably the one I’ve seen most is the fisheye, which has become so very, very standard at weddings. The fishbowl look is fun and because of the perspective, pictures taken in fisheye can capture an extremely wide angle of everything going on in a scene.

One look that I love is the lensbaby. They are these neat lenses that capture one part of the picture very sharply, and then everything around that sharp part is blurred out. People have created amazing effects with this. File Magazine keeps a gallery of lensbaby photos here.

The look that I have completely become ob-sessed with is a look created using toy cameras–a Holga or Diana. Holgas were created in China in the early ’80s as cheap plastic cameras. Because they were cheaply made, light would leak into the body of the camera and expose the film, creating blurred edges in the photograph and unexpected light spots or streaks. Since you can’t tell how much light is being let into the camera, every picture that is printed is totally unexpected. Best part–this is a less than $30 camera….crazy!

Fabulous wedding holga photo here.

If you’re interested in having photographs in fisheye, or done using a lensbaby or Holga, you should talk to your photographer so that they have the right equipment or know how to photoshop/process the pics after they’re taken.