Who I am:
German. Married to a Buffalo girl. 3 cats.
Hello there! I'm Stefan Ludwig, a passionate wedding and family photographer based out of Buffalo, NY, where I moved over 10 years ago.
Why Buffalo? Because my wife grew up here. I was born and raised in Münster, Germany and lived most recently in Vienna, Austria. I worked as a journalist for financial newspapers, websites and magazines. I wrote mainly about tech companies such as Apple, Facebook, Google.
As part of my job I was exposed to photography and filmmaking and discovered a passion. It didn’t take long for family and friends to ask me to photograph their weddings. I realized how much fun it was to be part of such an emotional day which you remember for a lifetime.
Since then, I have been a wedding photographer and videographer at more than 300 weddings in the USA, Germany, Mexico, Canada and Brazil.
My work has been featured in Artvoice, the Buffalo Wedding Magazine as well as in the Rochester Wedding Magazine.
And while photos are essential, a highlight film is an even better way to relive the memories of your wedding day. So typically, I cover photos together with a highlight film. So there are two of capturing your day together to make sure every moment is in your final product, your gallery with a beautiful video. Especially if you have your own vows, the video is very powerful by incorporating your very own personality, love and humor with each other. That is simply something photos can't reproduce. So having both can ultimately only be an advantage - your gain two distinctly different ways to look back at your wedding day. Both have their own strength. You can hang your photos on your wall. And you can watch your wedding day together again and again, for example on your anniversary or really whenever you feel like it. Take a minute to watch an example of a highlight film.