THEY ARE by THE PORTUGAL WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER

Some photos of the bride being made up for her wedding day

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Search to transform

  Transforming. One of the things that give me more pleasure, when a wedding photographer, is having the ability, with the help of my photographic cameras and lens, to transform the environments where I will go to cover the weddings, of the couples who want me with them.

The first thing my eyes do, since they arrive at the place, is to recognize all the possibilities of points of view, the things I can use as helpers as if they were secondary characters that help me to bloom the main characters, the groom, the bride and who is with them and what they are doing. The experience indeed helps me to recognize those helpers very fast but it should never be a repetition of the solutions already found in the way, not making the work repetitive and boring.

No repetition for real photos

Doing all the same things over and over, for sure, would be what would drive me away from my work and, as you can understand, it is something that I do not want to happen.

  So, I can say, for sure, that what it takes me to the photos I grab, during the day, are the things also important like people who are the main characters that originate the stories for consistent and truthful photos, that will develop throughout the long, but fast day.

The photographer’s greatest helpers, for wedding photos

A lamp in the corner of the room or hanging from the ceiling, someone who delivers a task fundamental and offers me an essential frame, the back of the chair forgotten and with no need are precious helpers for the photos, such as the bride or the groom in the evolution of a process that will bring them to the altar after all the hustle and bustle that, usually, exists at this time of the day.

   What I need from them, those helpers is that they will be the last thing we see in the picture, only possible with their help, when it will be seen through the eyes of the one who asked for it to happen, the wedding photographer.

It is true that those lamps, tables, and other objects that are friendly and generous to the wedding photographer, will not appear in the final acknowledgments. In their humility, they know that and never refuse to help me when I need it, and they will never be one of those main characters, present in the space where they were so precious to me.

Appreciation, from the wedding photographer

They know that the wedding photographer will never forget them, for the help with that visual effect that gave rise to a photograph with the bride having her make-up, hairdressing, or at the end of the process with the dress already dressed. Without their help, the wedding photographer would never been able to show his work and say, with shining eyes, I have done that.

Yes, everything matters and everything is important to take a photo, from weddings or not.

Dot by dot:

• As soon as I arrive at a location, as a wedding photographer, I immediately try to find all the things that are there to help me in my work, either as secondary characters or as aids in the composition of the photographs.

• It’s these elements, let’s call them that, that makes it so I don’t feel like I’m repeating myself when I go to places with the same function during the wedding day.

• My helpers in composing the photographs I take at the wedding can be as varied as lamps, chairs, vases of flowers, the hairdresser’s arms, or the two friends of the bride and groom chatting to each other and offering me a wonderful frame.

• To these, the wedding photographer always says thank you, every time he leaves one of these places that a wedding has, for leaving there with the satisfaction of a job done, well done.

You need to know:

• You already know, that the more things, and people, your wedding venues have, the more creative the photographer will be in the pictures he will bring back from there. Contact me and I’ll explain everything in a good chat.