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It would be fair to say Mark Moberg was born to be a photographer. After all, his father is a well-respected, and well-traveled photographer in his own right. Moberg studio, which Allan Moberg founded in the 1960s, has been in Tampa for 45-plus years and is honored to have some of the area's most prominent families as clients.
While learning the skill from his father, Mark discovered many things about the photography process: how to use a camera, how to develop film and how to print in the darkroom. But, as Mark would say, the best thing he learned from his father was how to see. Not just the light, but the subject. To see the person in the portrait for who they are, to let one's instincts take him or her to a place that reveals their essence.
Today, Mark is himself a master of the craft.
An accomplished photographer for Moberg Studio, he has been asked to speak at various professional photography conventions, which illustrates the respect he has amassed from those within the industry. Mark enjoys all aspects of photography, but primarily focuses on weddings.
Simply put, they're his passion.
A wedding is a part of the human experience, Mark says. "It's all very fascinating to me. It's about the celebration of life. I want to find the humanness that connects us all. There are all these dynamics going on. It's really something extraordinary for the bride and groom to ask you to be apart of sharing their happiness. Its an honor."
Like a person's fingerprint, no two weddings are alike. Because of that, capturing each one's unique characteristics is a challenge, albeit one Mark thoroughly enjoys.
Mark wants brides and grooms to understand where he is coming from: "I tell prospective clients what makes me tick. I want them to realize that I am not just a person with a camera recording an event but a person who believes that a bride's wedding day is an idyllic state that is soft and full of emotion. I want the photographs to have some timelessness to them, and bring out the emotion and beauty of the wedding day.
Through our conversations, I explore who the bride and groom are and what is important to them. It is part of the process for me to find out each bride and groom's story and then create a narrative. It's a fun process that usually ends with me making some new friends.
Technique will only get you so far with weddings. If you hide behind the camera you are never going to feel the emotion and let the moments take you in. A photographer needs to know his or her cameras like they are an appendage of their body, and then in a somewhat Zen way, forget them. It is from this perspective that photography for Mark becomes not about the camera but the experience.
"I want the bride and groom to remember how they felt during their wedding day", Mark says. "The laughing, the gentle kisses, the softly spoken 'I love you' that are exchanged during the wedding -- I want them to be remembered and felt like they were yesterday. The only way I know how to do this is to let the moments take me in, and yes, sometimes a tear or two does appear on my face."
In viewing Mark's work, it is clear he truly loves wedding photography.
It has taken him years to learn the art, and in some ways he still has many years to go. But he knows there are three things that define wedding photography: love, tradition and family.
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