Understanding Composition in Documentary Wedding Photography Most people know when they like a photograph. Not photographs of themselves, for we are all too vain to see beyond our own image. But landscapes, street photography or photographs of your friends. Fewer people understand what it is about a photograph that makes it pleasing on the eye.…
Ask a wedding photojournalist or documentary wedding photographer what their perfect assignment would be, and I’m pretty sure it would involve no, or very few posed, wedding group photos. There’s a number of reasons for this. Firstly, it’s quite a specialism to do high quality, well lit, perfectly posed group photographs. It takes time to arrange…
Natural and Candid Wedding Photography I’m a strong believer that candid wedding photography is the best and most truthful way of recording a wedding day. It’s the most important day in a couple’s life, and the wedding album will be a permanent record of a great celebration. Some wedding photographers produce stunning bridal portraits on location during…
Shortlisted For The Hitched Breakthrough Awards After almost 20 years as an editorial photographer, the last 15 for The Times, I only started photographing weddings a year ago. I shoot a handful of weddings a year as well as continuing my work for The Times. I answered the phone last week to discover I had been shortlisted…
A Candid Portrait During Balliol College Wedding Photography Christina and Eric met whilst studying at Oxford, and decided to get married in the beautiful Chapel at Balliol College. They used the Fellows garden for the reception, with the wedding breakfast in the Dining Hall. It was a real thrill when they asked me to provide their Balliol College wedding…
The Perfect Tool For A Destination Wedding Photographer I’ve been a Canon user my whole professional life. I’m on my fifth set of digital cameras and each model has always had its limitations. But you learn how to work around those, and use the best tool for the job at hand. For the last three…
Hackney Town Hall Wedding Wedding portraits are a big part of a couple’s set of pictures, and employing a wedding photojournalist doesn’t mean you won’t get some beautiful portraits. What it should mean is that a couple are not taken away from their guests for a couple of hours by the photographer and told to…
Natural and Unposed Richmond Wedding Photography The aim of a documentary wedding photographer, or wedding photojournalist, is to tell the story of the wedding day, in such a way that the viewer feels a connection to the subjects, whether they were present on the day or not. One way of doing that is to look around…
I’m really pleased that three of my wedding photographs have been placed in the WPJA (Wedding Photojournalist Association) 2012 Q1 contest, including a first prize for this image of 4 year old Imogen having her hair done at her parents Claire and Simon’s wedding at Monkton Barn Galleries in Marlow, Buckinghamshire. The judges comments were…