Top 1 Creative Santa Barbara Wedding Portrait Photographers for 2024

Page Updated: February 19th, 2022

Wouldn’t you just love to hire a top creative Santa Barbara 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 Santa Barbara couple portraits.

Four Artistic Guild contests for Santa Barbara 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 Santa Barbara 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.

Portrait of Loren Haar, Engagement, Elopement and Wedding Photographer

Loren Haar is a traveling wedding photographer who has a knack for capturing genuine emotions on camera. Whether in the countryside or at vineyards, Loren feels right at home taking beautiful portraits.