THE POWERFUL by THE WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER IN LISBON

Photos of the exchange of rings, end of the wedding ceremony, and greetings to the bride and groom, at Quinta da Taipa in Alenquer

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Under the sun, everything is beautiful for a wedding ceremony

Sunny sunshine on a wedding day signifies great joy for everyone there.

The light that illuminates everyone’s faces and spirits pairs with that of the sun and is a sign of a happy and future day with everything one wishes for a newly married couple, despite the old saying that a wet wedding is a blessed wedding. Or, as there is no other remedy, one might as well make an excuse here to look like everything is fine anyway.

And it is, as the wedding photographer has testified throughout his time. In fact, to the eye of the beholder, the sunlight brings bouncy colors, creating a beautiful contrast between them and making everything look more three-dimensional. The dynamics of light to the dynamics of life, as you wish.

What better analogy when you want to wish all the best to a bride and groom who at some point will cease to be one and become a husband and wife as the ceremonial manual of the public registrar or the priest in church dictates?

A soft sun and wedding photos

But, there is always a but, there is someone who, and not because he or she is against it or has twisted taste, would have preferred the sun, suddenly, at least at the time of the ceremony under the trees in the garden, to be shy, to call a cloud or two of its friends and soften the shadows that give a soft contrast, to open the eyes of the bride and groom in a wedding ceremony and of all those sitting there, to ensure that the yes will come to the delight of all.

Some in a place more given to deep contrast, seem to disappear as if they have only left their ghost and sought a softer shadow. As the wedding photographer loves everyone, and especially his work, and wants them well, he knows that a softening of the beautiful sunlight will only make everyone more beautiful and happier, afterward, when they see in the wedding photographs what comes out of his lenses.

Take no offense, I respect all the love you have for the bright sunlight and all the joy it brings with it.

A proposal, sometimes accepted, sometimes not

But, realize that it is for your good that the wedding photographer, before leaving the house to start the big run of an entire day, catching pictures endlessly, make a kind of request to the mighty one, the sun, see if you can find a way to hide at the time of the ceremony in an empty ceiling space and give me all those people with beautiful faces, as everyone expects a photographer at a wedding to do them. It only takes a few minutes, and if you have all the power the Egyptians said you have it shouldn’t cost you anything, and I’d look good.

Then glow all you want, warm their bodies and souls because I only want their happiness.

You may not believe it, but now and then, he shows that he heard me, or he also likes photography and knows how it is, and there I have the wedding ceremony under soft lights without wrinkled foreheads and eyes looking like they spent the night blank.

Well, some must have passed, but that story is not up to the wedding photographer.

Dot by dot:

• Sunlight at an outdoor wedding ceremony shows how colorful life is and how happy everyone is to be there.

• However, for the wedding photographer, uncovered sunlight doesn’t always make it easy to get good shots of the ceremony and the rest of the day.

• That’s why whenever I set out on a wedding day, all outdoors, I ask the sun to hide, at least for the duration of the ceremony.

You need to know:

• The photographs, of the wedding ceremony, were taken at Quinta da Taipa in Alenquer, Portugal.
• Whether the sun is shining or not, the photographer does everything he can to ensure that the photographs are always taken, because they are very important: They will be at your wedding too. Give me a call and I’ll arrange for them to be brought.