THE UNEXPECTED by THE WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER IN PORTUGAL

The photos are of the bride and groom, seated, while the wedding ceremony takes place

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Anticipating the photos

When we are in a profession, already with some time behind us, that can help us with the learned but not studied knowledge, which means, that not noted learnings coming with the experience of doing it, with the encounter of unusual situations needed to be solved well and fast or, even, that first and unique time that could let us be blocked…and now? we start to take it for granted, or almost, those things that we think we can anticipate, and, most of the time we get it right.

With a wedding photographer, it is no different.

When, by an automatic assumption, the wedding photographer enters a church and notices that the usual place for the wedding couple, to follow the wedding ceremony, is not there, I can not help but feel a momentary block, with astonishment then…now, they ruined my photos.

The moments already started to happen

How I will make those faces, that I love so much, of my wedding couple, between the candles of the altar, unfocused, in the front and all the guests, beautifully seated, in the background, also inside a fog that my lens so harmoniously knows how to do it.

As I wrote some lines behind, it was only a momentary paralysis because they, the real moments, already started to happen and the wedding photographer can not start with complaints, which he would lose, with who had the idea to change the usual place of the celebrated ones.

New angles and points of view

So, immediately, he changes strategy, reviews all the elements inside that can help him, recalculates all the angles, and finds new points of view, before the priest begins the so-expected ceremony, he is already working as if nothing different happened.

From then on, it was only harvesting a crop offered by all, inside that church, until the end of the ceremony as if it was small, was not, and fast, was not. But, from the wedding photographer, we already expected that.

Well, there would always be room for another one.

Dot by dot:

• With experience, and time in the profession, I can say that I can anticipate many of the moments that happen on a wedding day. However, you shouldn’t get too confident because unforeseen events happen all the time, which is challenging.

• All it takes is for that church, which has never been photographed before during the wedding ceremony, for the place where the bride and groom usually sit to change, and everything that was planned has to be altered. It’s not a problem, it’s, once again, a challenge.

• The wedding photographer may have a kind of momentary paralysis, a stop to reprogram what he thought was there, and, immediately, the new points of view have been identified and work continues as usual, from photo to photo.

You need to know:

• For someone who doesn’t really like repetition, of moments and places, the photographer at your wedding will want many of these challenges so that the photographs are always genuine, yours. If you want to know more, contact me.