John, I've noticed and been surprised by the same thing. I like to shoot fashion/beauty, and my tastes are very much skewed towards the visual iconography of that environment. When I look at traditional wedding portraits by people like Zucker, I find them to be extremely unappealing. I have done a fair bit of wedding photography for friends, and my pictures don't look much like his. Of course, they usually aren't of half-naked brides glaring haughtily at the camera and shot at a 45 degree angle with blown out highlights, toned blue, either :-). If you are trying to do this commercially, you have to shoot what people want. I suspect that younger customers in particular would be attracted to a less overdone treatment, but I have repeatedly seen pros who do this for a living claim the opposite. If you really want to make a go of it as a career, you'd probably want to try both approaches and see how well they sell - if you do that, please let us know what happens.(posted 8762 days ago)Cheers.