INSIDE A PHOTO by THE WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER IN PORTUGAL

The photographs are of a couple during a pregnancy session in the gardens of Quinta da Bacalhoa in Sintra

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Harmonious composition in a photo

Composing or how to show love inside a photo. One of the things I need to know when I am going to photograph a couple is how they know how to intertwine to create compositions with their bodies interacting with the surrounding space and building a harmonious behavior.

There exist mathematics and geometries that can exemplify the several ways to compose an image. It works for photography, painting, and cinema. Since the Renaissance, it has been used, but the wedding photographer does not have the time necessary to make previous studies, as the classic painters had, so he must bring to help him all the knowledge and experience already achieved and, very importantly, a sense of intuition that gives him some sort of speed, which is an order, and bring to us, in the form of photos, those affections.

The exercise of composition

I may say that it is my beloved exercise. I like, without some special effort, the exercise of composing and, especially, when pressed by the need to slip over the time that does not want to give me more time. If I need to think too much about the most what I can find is to complicate the process and never achieve the most simple solution, or the obvious, that I need for what I have in front of me, to photograph. The exercise was forced, and taught, by the method of the wedding photographer…always without time.

• Na Quinta da Regaleira in Sintra