Lake Como from the Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio
DEDICATED TO YOU
You who are searching for the best wedding photographer on Lake Como
- “Te Larii Maxime” (“You, Lake Como the Great”; Virgil, 1st century BC).
Lake Como is a place celebrated for its beauty since the time of the ancient Romans.
- It is no trivial matter that the greatest love story of Italian literature ‘The Betrothed’ by Alessandro Manzoni was set here and saw the light together with the birth of photography.
- The notebook of sketches made during the Grand Tour by William Turner, the immense “painter of light” of English romanticism, is titled “Como and Venice”. This was for him the greatest enchantment that Italy could offer.
In more recent times many famous films have been filmed here, including:
- A Month by the Lake (1995), comedy directed by John Irvin with Vanessa Redgrave, Edward Fox and Uma Thurman.
- Casino Royale (2006), the twenty-first film in the Eon Productions James Bond film series directed by Martin Campbell with first starring of Daniel Craig as Agent 007.
- Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones, because on Lake Como and around the promontory of the Villa del Balbianello (Lenno), George Lucas found the perfect place to set the scenes of Naboo, the Planet of the Lakes.
Laglio: Daniel McVicar going to a private party at Villa Regina Teodolinda
Varenna, San Giorgio church: light reflections on the black marble floor
What kind of pictures have we chosen for you in this post
- The first sequence of images is taken from a work we call “personal photographer”, this means following a person or a couple in certain situations (usually for half a day).
In this case the bride and groom asked to be followed for a shooting set in the picturesque village of Brienno after celebrating an intimate wedding without guests in the gardens of the Relais Villa Vittoria, Laglio. - On the other hand the second sequence was chosen specifically because it does full justice to the magnificent beauty of Lake Como: a location with spectacular scenery (Villa Passalacqua, Moltrasio) and a tour by boat before the reception on a lovely day. Guests from all over the world were able to experience the beauty of the surroundings as fully as possible. In this service, unlike the previous one, the couple chose not to pose for any photograph except those requested by them on the spur of the moment (wedding photojournalism style).
One fundamental thing to bear in mind in order to make the right decision for your wedding photographs
- Seeing as we have a lot of experience in this field we wish to give you some advice. Towards the end of the 90’s we were the first Photographic studio to propose the revolutionary idea of ‘wedding photojournalism’ – style without pose – on an internet site. Before our studio spread the idea of wedding photojournalism most photographers used an unnatural and uncreative style, or conventional poses, sometimes using many artificial light points.
- The artistic ideas of the photographer prevailed over the atmosphere of the party and the hearts of the newly-weds, and distracted them from their guests.Nowadays wedding photojournalism is the most-used style in Italy.But in our opinion the whole idea of being different by being a ‘photo-reporter’ is an outdated concept, if not banal. Posed photographs and portraits, if done with a mature and renewed style, are now living a new life especially as a stylistic citation or modern vintage, fantastic when placing the wedding couple in a ‘shabby chic’ surrounding, and if taken by a good photographer can give wonderfully poetic photographs in little time, so allowing the couple more time to enjoy their guests and reception!
Villa d’Este: fireworks facing the lake
Como: winter wedding at the Teatro Sociale
“Oh what a pity we did it…” Vs “We’ve found the best solution”
The first secret for deciding which kind of wedding photographs to ask for is contained in these two great tips:
- On the day of your wedding you should be happy about anything you do with your photographer.
- Do not feel obliged to do anything you do not like just because it ‘has always been done that way…’
- After your wedding day you shouldn’t regret not having done something with your photographer, if you have doubts, do it.
- If the photographer has the right sensitivity he will surely make you feel at your ease.
- As for the studio Luca Rajna Progetti Fotografici,
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SEQUENCE.01
Personal Photographer
Relais Villa Vittoria, Laglio. External Shooting: Brienno
Preset infos // Color: Luca Rajna – Lario Rivera // B&W: Luca Rajna – Lario Biancoenero
That branch of the Lake of Como, which extends towards the south, is enclosed by two unbroken chains of mountains, which, as they advance and recede, diversify its shores with numerous bays and inlets.
Suddenly the lake contracts itself, and takes the course and form of a river, between a promontory on the right, and a wide open shore on the opposite side.
The bridge which there joins the two banks seems to render this transformation more sensible to the eye, and marks the point where the lake ends, and the Adda again begins—soon to resume the name of the lake, where the banks receding afresh, allow the water to extend and spread itself in new gulfs and bays.
The open country, bordering the lake, formed of the alluvial deposits of three great torrents, reclines upon the roots of two contiguous mountains, one named San Martino, the other, in the Lombard dialect, the Resegone, because of its many peaks seen in profile, which in truth resemble the teeth of a saw so much so, that no one at first sight, viewing it in front (as, for example, from the northern bastions of Milan), could fail to distinguish it by this simple description, from the other mountains of more obscure name and ordinary form in that long and vast chain. For a considerable distance the country rises with a gentle and continuous ascent; afterwards it is broken into hill and dale, terraces and elevated plains, formed by the intertwining of the roots of the two mountains, and the action of the waters.
The shore itself, intersected by the torrents, consists for the most part of gravel and large flints; the rest of the plain, of fields and vineyards, interspersed with towns, villages, and hamlets: other parts are clothed with woods, extending far up the mountain.
From:
Alessandro Manzoni (1785 – 1873): the beginning of “I Promessi Sposi” (“The Betrothed”), the most celebrated italian novel first published in 1827
The Mount Resegone from our atelier.
I love Your pictures ! Lake Como is proud of Your work as Wedding photographer.
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Martina
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