NOT ALWAYS by THE SINTRA WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER
Some photos from the start of the wedding ceremony at Adega de Colares, Sintra
The light the photographer wants
The light we like or the day when the clouds decided to make fun of the wedding photographer. When I arrived, as scheduled, at Adega de Colares, that late morning, everything was as I like when I go to photograph on the slopes of the Serra de Sintra.
Cloudy sky without wishes of rain, that cloudy sky with very clean light, that I find a lot over there frequently and the perfect place to take advantage of the environment with an atmosphere only catchable around there.
Of course, I, immediately, started to imagine the outcome, those photos full of mid-tones, soft contrast letting me read everything in between with those gradations perfect for the black and white photography, and for me. Meanwhile, I went to Elisabete and Pedro while they were getting dressed for the big occasion and I lost the notion of what the sun, the clouds, and the wind were plotting behind my back.
The mischievous cloud
What I did not know is that, for some reason, one of the clouds, that saw me so happy with what I was expecting for my work in there, decided to mess with me and, who knows why, convinced the wind to push her and her friends and when I returned, to prepare myself for the ceremonial of the yes starting to begin, the sun, that everything can and allows including photographs, was shining and hard, generating some things that the wedding photographer not always likes, especially in the wedding ceremony:
Very dark shadows, whites so high that can easily burn, closed eyes and those faces, my main subject with those emotions so friendly of my lens, a little contorted by the discomfort, because all of them, the faces, that love it in the beach, do not make very good figure when seated in the front of the ceremonial table, where the yes is expected any moment, and lead the wedding photographer to be very attentive to the more comfortable intervals and never come to say, in the end, that the fault of the bad work was because the sun and…the lack of clouds.
The ligt the photographer had
However, as always, the work was done with the experience of these playing around of those stains that fly over the ceremonials of the weddings in summer days, already trained the wedding photographer not to get caught in false and lose his drive.
On the contrary. The more the difficulty the better the challenge. A certain angle in the framing, less from the front and more from the side, wait, wait…now and some other little tricks make sure that the ceremony of the yes was picked up, to be remembered later.
It is true that the photographer would like that those things he knows that help him, to do his work more as he likes, where there, every time he goes to do his commitment. But nature is not at his service and, he just can use his own tricks and methods in order to fulfill his commitments, as has always been the case.
But, wait… since the ceremony was over, and all the congratulations were kissed and hugged, my dear cloud must get ordered to his companions, coming from behind to faster the fly and the light, suddenly, was like the wedding photographer wished since the beginning.
So…..
