THE STORY TO TELL by THE WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER IN SINTRA
Some photos, moments before the wedding ceremony began at Quinta da Serra in Sintra
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What happens on the bride and groom’s wedding day
There is a temptation on the part of wedding photographers to choose the bride and the groom as the main subjects throughout the process of the day. It is an obligation because, really, they are the ones that matter and our job is to bring the story in photos with all the steps, gestures, smiles, hugs, kisses on others and others on them, dance steps, fingers attracting special rings and everything around what happens in the wedding day.
However, the great temptation is in what is always diverting the attention of my lens, the great culprits for failing my compromise, that does not stop me from shouting out to the photographer, at the wedding, hey look do not let go of that one, you must see what is happening at the bottom, look how beautiful, do not you dare not take her with us. The photo. That one was happening and impossible to leave it uncached.
My lenses, tireless workers
That is why, when the couple, who were kind enough to let me be with them, already in the quietness of their home, realize the things they did not see because they were overwhelmed with all those happenings, will excuse the wedding photographer, here and there, point his lens elsewhere and not dedicate his attention to them exclusively.
Fortunately, I have my lens that, in addition to being tireless workers, are always attentive and looking around and call me overtime they notice someone kissing someone when someone shows something to someone when someone takes a picture of someone and lets it be seen or, when his other lens, that one that can have everything at once, start to complain because I do not use it and I can, alone, do the work of the others altogether.
Writing photographs on the wedding day
As you can see, I must be patient to take advantage of their advice and, at the same time, calm down their exacerbated desire to transport the light through them and deliver it to the bottom of the cameras they are attached to.
I still do not understand if the wedding photographer reads over a series of events that develops all day and, instead of using words to describe them, instead the voice, the lens connected to cameras or, on the contrary, he is the one who writes the photographs with the help of those pens without ink so that they can, later, be read by someone who wants to leaf through the books he, also, edit.
Whatever it is, what matters is that what he writes, or reads, must be perceived by those who, in the end, have a special interest in what remains. A story to tell to anyone who comes in the future. That is why I do not stop reading or…writing without letters or words.
Dot by dot:
- The wedding photographer’s main commitment indeed is to follow the bride and groom throughout the event. But it’s very tempting to divert attention to all the others who are there with them, the wedding guests.
- I don’t have much of a problem with this, not least because I’ll be forgiven by the couple when they see the stories with all their friends. On the other hand, my lens would never let me avoid looking at others.
- Often I don’t know if I’m the one taking the photographs at the wedding or if they, the lenses, know where and how to do it. That’s very good because it means that between the wedding photographer and his working material, there is a perfect symbiosis.
You need to know:
- The photographs that inspired this text were captured at Quinta da Serra, in Linhó in Sintra.
- Believe me, it’s true. There is a perfect bond between me and my cameras and lenses. You can see it in the photographs I show here. It will be the same at your wedding. Contact me and I’ll explain everything.
