About

borterwagner photography accepts assignments in Harbor Country, the Chicagoland area, and worldwide. Photographic services include: Weddings, corporate events, family and children’s portraits, maternity portraits, corporate portraits, and fashion composites.

When photographing weddings, borterwagner photography approaches the day with a cinematic style.   This cinematic style creates a balanced blend of classic photojournalism, fine portraiture, split second candids, detailed vignettes and abstract creations.  Borterwagner uses this cinematic style to create a fine art presentation of your story.   This presentation will be a family heirloom cherished for generations to come.

borterwagner photography  is located in Three Oaks, Michigan, and maintains studios in Chicago, with sales associates across the continental United States, accepting commissions for assignment throughout the United States and abroad.

The first thing people notice when they meet Johnny Borter and Tina Wagner is their absolute enthusiasm.  "We see every wedding as a chance to create a master piece.  We seek to create one image that people will stop and stare at.  One image that you cannot seem to turn away from, your not sure why, and for every person there is another reason.  When the true spirit of the day exposes itself to us in this way then we feel as though we have succeeded."

Johnny Borter professionally photographed his first wedding in 1987.  Since that time he has photographed over 500 weddings.  Johnny's current mastery of digital imaging has taken him around the country for numerous advertising assignments and teaching opportunities.  Tina Wagner studied photojournalism at Columbia College in Chicago under the direction of pulitzer prize winner John H. White, obtaining her bachelor of Arts degree in 1995.  The couple paired in 2001 and formed borterwagner photography.  "We combined our talents to form what we believe is an amazing opportunity for our clients to gain perspective in an uncompromised manner."  By having two photographers, Borterwagner photography can always be capturing the moments of the day from more than on perspective at a time.  By enabling simultaneous perspectives, borterwagner does not need to choose between a portrait or a candid, a moment or a pose, black and white or color.

borterwagner photography is a full service mobile photographic studio.  Onsite capabilities include, but are not limited to, hi-resolution photographic capture, high intensity and artistically crafted lighting, image viewing manipulation and output to hi-resolution print.

borterwagner photography photographs people.  Happy people, smiling people, loving people, sad people, old people, young people, people underwater, people flying through the air, people dancing, people laughing… people.

Johnny and Tina have a combined professional photography experience of over 35 years and focus their attention on the search for the perfect poetic images. Their variety of styles and highly individual experiences can be seen on their website.