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Falling into the Eyes: Wedding Photographs

Do photographers make wedding photographs? Well, I never tire of saying that I am not the one who makes the photographs. They are graciously offered to me. There are times when wedding photographs fall into the photographer’s eyes, and all he has to do, with the help of his precious cameras, is capture them to later deliver to whom they belong.​

It’s true that one also needs to know how to catch them. It reminds me of when, many years ago, I went to pick fruit in the French Alps region. There was a man there with us in the picking who managed to fill his boxes with impressive speed.

​The Photographer Only Catches the Photographs

No matter how much I tried, I couldn’t keep up with him. It’s just that he knew how. Just that. In the same way, the wedding photographer must have the knowledge to catch them, I repeat this word because I can’t find another that better approaches the truth.​

It’s true that I also depend on my beloved lenses to give me the result I seek. They are also wise connoisseurs of the profession, and I can trust them to blur here and detail there.​

Only with the eyes, nothing is photographed. One only detects and helps to adjust for good composition and knowing the right moment. And that’s not little. Now, it’s not the wedding photographer who makes them, it’s not… he just catches them.​

Point by Point:

• I am convinced that, as a wedding photographer, I don’t make any photographs. They are graciously offered to me, and I just have to catch them.​
• However, I also know that it’s necessary to know how to catch those wedding photographs.​
• I remember, many years ago, when I was picking fruit in the French Alps, a man filled so many boxes that I could never keep up with him. He knew how.​
• He had the knowledge and practice. That’s what’s needed to catch, take, the photographs that are handed to me at weddings.​
• On the other hand, I depend on my cameras and lenses to help me achieve the result I seek to capture on the wedding day.​
• Just looking doesn’t photograph, or rather, doesn’t bring photographs with you. But the look observes, detects, composes, and decides the right moment for the wedding photograph.​

You Need to Know:

• .Any photograph that comes out of a wedding day is the result of much experience and prior work by the photographer. It’s all accumulated knowledge that manifests in the simple moment of capturing a photograph.​
• At your wedding, that’s also how it happens. Come talk to me so I can explain how it is. Contact me.