Wedding couple, hand in hand, in a photo session on their wedding day in the session with the wedding photographer in Lisbon.

Photographer on the loose during a wedding party

THE PHOTOGRAPHER by THE WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER  IN LISBON

Wedding couple, hand in hand, in a photo session on their wedding day in the session with the wedding photographer in Lisbon.

Some of the photographs were taken with the bride and groom walking, in the wedding party’s garden session


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The photographer’s patience at the wedding

Always the portrait, even if it was not been asked for. Although I already wrote here that I do not have any inclination to photograph animals, I admire their photographers very much. They are expert portraitists with a characteristic that I envy, the good envy, and I try to imitate them, once in a while, as a wedding photographer. Patience.

So, sometimes I pick up my telelens in one camera and, with the patience of those who know that waiting pays off, far away, I choose one or two characters walking the event and, sooner or later, I know that they will offer me that gesture, that moving or reacting to someone attention. I do not know about the other wedding photographers, but, that part, it is only me, my cameras, and my subjects. I completely forget the wedding itself.

My cameras and lenses give me what I like

It is as if my commitment to the couple was off for some time and I deliver myself to something that only belongs to me. It is like meditation. Me, my cameras, and some moving walkers offer me those things I like so much. My own universe and nothing more. In those moments I am just a photographer. The wedding will come in moments. It is a wonder.

Groom, alone, paying attention to his guests, outside the photo.
Bride seated in a chair in the wedding photo session.
Bride and groom posing for a photo in the wedding session.
The bride and groom, facing each other, at a wedding photography session.

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