Using your eyes is an obvious part of being a photographer, but any documentary photographer worth their salt will also be using their ears. It’s important to listen out for nuggets of conversations that give clues to moments that are about to unfold. Shortly after Dave married Sarah at Leatherhead register office, their assembled guests filed … Read more
I thoroughly enjoy the rich seam of documentary photography that’s available in the invariable lull between the end of the wedding breakfast (& speeches) and the commencement of the evening’s entertainment. It’s often during this time that I am looking to create images that contain multiple layers; something you’ll find me talking quite a lot about … Read more
In this series of articles, I’m taking a look at a few of my favourite wedding photographs and discussing the way I approached each image. I hope this will give you a little insight into the way I like to work and how this impacts on the photographs that I deliver to my clients. This weeks picture comes … Read more
I talk a lot about layering my images within this series of articles. I do like my photographs to have more than one element to them, it adds more context to the story and reward the viewer for spending a little time reading the picture. I took this picture during Sarah’s preparations before she got … Read more
There’s so much going on immediately after a wedding ceremony; I love to get stuck into the action and take in the atmosphere. At Michael & Louise’s wedding, guests were understandably excited to congratulate the newly-weds. I positioned myself behind the couple so I could read the expressions of those who had come to wish them well. … Read more
Shortly after their wedding ceremony at The Elvetham in Hampshire, Kate & Ollie stepped out of the ceremony room with their daughter. Instead of capturing this moment head-on, I chose to take a couple of steps to one side; partly to make the most of some lovely light and the leading lines offered by the panelled walls, but … Read more
Today’s post forms part of a series of blog posts discussing individual wedding photographs, which I hope will give you a brief insight into how I approach wedding photography and what I’m looking for in a successful image to deliver to my clients. I was trying to be a little bit clever in this picture of … Read more
I’ve decided to start a series of blog posts discussing individual wedding photographs. I hope the articles will give you a brief insight into how I approach wedding photography and what I’m looking for in a successful image to deliver to my clients. For my inaugural post, I thought I’d choose this picture from Jemma & … Read more