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What is a wedding portrait? | Wedding 365#44
WEDDING 365 PROJECT – one image per day to demonstrate shooting style, creatively and technically.
SHOOTING DATA: 5DMk2, 70-200mm, F2.8, 1/1250, ISO 160, under by a third.
ETHOS: I’ve made a creative journey in the last couple of years, gradually withdrawing from overly contrived portraits to favour a more relaxed and natural stance. I do pose couple and group portraits yes, it’s inevitable and right that I’ll be required to, but I’m equally fond of ‘walk and talk’ capture. It’s not unusual that the resulting photographs will be something akin to today’s choice of 365 image. Ah, but is it a portrait? Shouldn’t a portrait be some kind of formal rather more staid record? That’s the traditional understanding after all. I prefer to embrace the modern comprehension of the word, where the intention is to capture the personality of the subject and by extension the moment.
Berkshire wedding photographer | WEDDING 365#17
WEDDING 365 PROJECT – Daily choice of a wedding photojournalist image selected from my catalogue, collated from time spent documenting these unique events. Ethos provided for prospective brides and grooms, shooting data for the togs intrigued by that kind of information. Please comment, it makes a World of difference.
SHOOTING DATA: 5DMk2, 24mm lens, F1.4, 1/1250, ISO 160
ETHOS: I’ve written already about looking for several things to happen through the viewfinder when recording documentary wedding images. I’m drawn to this image by the different styles of conversation apparently ongoing. You can invent your own story, but I’m seeing a very stoic exchange in the background between the two chaps, foreground and mid ground to the left is your typical wedding chatter image, but the focal point is clearly the cheeky banter mid to the right. Before I even lifted the camera to my eye, I’d stood and watched this developing for a number of minutes. Can’t possibly divulge what they were saying!
Cheam School wedding photography – Mike and Nichola
It seemed appropriate in the week that I published my long considered article on wedding photography within churches, that I should enjoy the welcome bestowed by Canon David Winter near my home town of Thatcham for the wedding of Mike and Nichola. I do hope that Canon David will afford me some more time, to answer the questions posed within that article if he happens upon this. His response is particularly interesting as upon the morning of this wedding, he’d broadcast Radio 4′s Thought for the Day piece. A regular contributor for the BBC, he’d even mentioned this wedding! That aside, you can see the wondrous results that emerge when you’re trusted to subtly photographically document a church service within the pictures presented in this article. Now to Nichola, our bride. I wasn’t quite expecting to be the reason your wedding day was moved so as to allow me the absolute privilege to cover your day. Pressure on! I hope as you preview some images from your day here that you feel I have delivered the honest storytelling experience you were keen to commission. And Mike, you are the reason that I intend to start audio recording within the next twelve months, so I can add a further dimension to wedding coverage. Your speech, as I said on the evening, and genuinely meant, is one of the best I have heard. Big hearty man slap in a rugby style fashion on the back Sir. Some of my favourites from the service and the reception, hosted at Berkshire’s famous Cheam School.
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