Top 6 Creative Aspen Wedding Portrait Photographers for 2024
Page Updated: January 31st, 2024
Wouldn’t you just love to hire a top creative Aspen wedding photographer to create artistic portraits on your big day? The Artistic Guild of the Wedding Photojournalist Association is here to help! Wedding photojournalists are, first and foremost, photographers — creative artists, in other words. In the AG contests, WPJA members exhibit their skills at digitally enhanced Aspen couple portraits.
Four Artistic Guild contests for Aspen wedding portraits are held annually, entered and judged separately from the regular WPJA competitions of moments. After each creative photo contest, we add another collection of award-winning portraits to our member profile galleries.
Want to have a top Aspen creative wedding photographer take some unique and artistic portraits? In a portrait (for these purposes), the photographer has staged the couple, the bridal party, or other participants or groups — such as family, friends, or children — on the day of the wedding. One distinguishing feature of portraits is that the subjects are aware of the camera and are maintaining their positions for the sake of the photograph.
Trent Gillespie is a Colorado wedding photographer with a Journalism degree from the University of Northern Colorado and experience in photojournalism. He specializes in creative portraits of couples, often taking advantage of natural mountain and rustic barn settings. Trent is skilled in off-camera lighting techniques, capturing beautiful shots at dusk and in low-light situations. He also has a talent for using flash in...
Sean Lara is a Rocky Mountains-based photographer known for his distinctive style in capturing weddings. He excels at utilizing beautiful landscapes and mountain settings to take creative and storytelling portraits. Sean's expertise lies in off-camera lighting, particularly in night shots and dusk lighting, and he enjoys using off-camera flash to enhance his subjects in daylight as well.
Nina Larsen Reed, a Norwegian transplant to the Colorado Rockies, captures the love and adventure of couples in winter settings. With over 150 weddings under her belt, she helps plan dream elopements.
Lucy Schultz, an artistic wedding photographer with a flair for unique imagery and off-camera lighting techniques, specializes in creating captivating pictures that capture the essence of each couple's special day.
Ted Felsberg is a photographer who specializes in capturing pure joy through his romantic, emotional, and fun wedding photography. He excels at creating breathtaking portraits of brides and grooms using off-camera flash in low-light outdoor settings. Ted loves to utilize lights to fill flash his subjects and especially enjoys working with the beautiful lighting of dusk.
Stacy Gillespie, a photographer based in Colorado, developed a passion for photography while pursuing a marketing degree in college. Her unique approach includes utilizing the stunning backdrops of mountain ski resorts and incorporating chair lifts into her compositions. Additionally, she excels in capturing the captivating beauty of the night sky during dusk lighting situations.
WPJA contest judges have been recognized by their industry peers, winning top awards as staff picture editors, staff photojournalists, and newsroom mentors while working for these and other leading publications and journalism organizations.
