INEVITABLE by the LISBON WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER

Some photos of children wanting to be adults, at a wedding party, and the bride and groom with their guests

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Giving those moments to the wedding photographer

I think wedding photographers must have some principles that give them the notion of what they can photograph, or not. I have, as a principle, used the fewest possible photos, I have done, with children, here in the blog. But, like everything in life, sometimes, some principles must be a bit relativized, not the fundamentals of course, when they, children, give me those moments that no photographer, wedding or not, could resist in the picking up and, after, in the look, it was made by me.

Those mandatory moments for photos

Although they are always a minority among the guests of the day, the children offer the wedding photographer great opportunities in situations that put my lens in delirium, if I do not use them in the catching of those, mandatory, moments. It is stronger than them, the photographer and his lens. We may find many reasons, but it is always those things that only children can compose, outside the usual, that call for attention to the photograph.

A wedding full of kids

The wedding photographers, like the others, have a special attraction for those things that seem out of place or, as we say, “out of the box”. The usual is only usual and does not have that appeal. But children can invent different things all the time, and if I leave my lens alone, doing what they want, they do not stop finding kids walking near them in the form of light to delight, after, parents when they look for those moments in the form of photos.

For the wedding photographer, nothing better than finding a wedding full of kids doing what they do best: photos. I will never lose either of them.

Dot by dot:

• As a rule, I don’t use photographs of children at weddings in my articles. But given that they are capable of providing the most interesting photographs of the wedding day, sometimes it’s inevitable.

• Even though they are always a large minority on a wedding day, they end up catching the eye of my lens because of the originality of the photographs they are able to compose.

• Like any photographer, I have a great attraction for what is not part of the normality of an event, so nothing better than children offering me the photographs that will delight their parents.

You need to know:

• Children are as much a part of the wedding day as all the adults. That’s why I know that sooner or later, they’ll be doing something that makes a perfect photograph. I’ll find them at your wedding too, and they’ll be in the photos. Come and see me at a meeting. Contact me.