YES, NOT ALWAYS by THE PORTUGAL WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER
Photo of the bride dancing with her brother and others at the wedding party, at Quinta das Riscas in Montijo
Some puzzles in the photos
It happens, to me, sometimes, when I am editing and transforming the photos in a way to, finally, call them mine and know that someone who sees them around, looks at them, and recognizes them as this one from the wedding photographer, I stop and think how the hell I picked up this one.
You may think why, if he is the photographer that was in the place, chose the spot to catch this and that one, decided between this one and the other one that was already going away and vanished forever, now is telling me that do not know how he takes it.
Well, I started to say that it happens and it is true. You must understand that the photographs, in a wedding, ride with such speed that the wedding photographer can not have the luxury of having time to think well let me know how to catch that one over there, I will go through here and hide behind those people to make a nice frame and when the photo least expects, it is mine. He did that, when he started this move with a couple of preparation early in the morning, ceremonies at noon, and partying the rest of the day.
Change of method by the photographer
The problem was that the photographs ran away from him all day and when he was ready to press the shutter button of the camera, they were already in another place and nobody could see them anymore. Of course, it was a frustration. The wedding photographer had to change his method to be quicker so they wouldn’t laugh at him.
It seems that some of them were having fun escaping from him, even though they knew that no one would know that they had been there, some of them do not care about it. Photographs things. Now, what I am going to do, what method am I going to find to not get the story with so many holes?
One day, I thought of a martial arts documentary that I had seen some time ago. It seems, because I never tried it, that they train so much, so often, and in such a way that, when they need to use what they learned, they do not have to think about what to do, every part of their bodies knows the response, without the owner of those parts having had time to think about it.
Explanation, by the photographer
Well, if it is good for them, it must be good for the wedding photographer. So, I started my work. Outside the weddings and training, yes, I also do it to teach myself, my cameras, and my lenses, and inside them where I started not to give a truce to those who insisted on fleeing me there.
What is good is that it began to work, every time I was getting faster in the reaction, quicker to their observation, and pointing the lens flawlessly. They, the photos, at first, were very disappointed that they could not run away from me anymore but, with time, since they recognized that they could stay forever and reappear every time someone wanted to see them, they started to make a party with that, for my great joy.
Now, you can understand why, sometimes, I can not remember what I did to catch that one, how I managed to get into that nonexistent hole in the floor to get that point of view, or how I made a courtship to get inside that wall and allow the wedding photographer that impossible frame. Well, you have to conform to it.
Ask him how it was, you can, but if he does not know, you know why. But that he made them, he did.
- In Quinta das Riscas in Montijo, Portugal
