MY PRECIOUS by THE SINTRA WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER
How many photographs are needed to tell a story of the wedding day? From the perspective of the wedding photographer, a few. The fundamentals, we found that each one is worth more than many, are a few. Those that, inside it, tell more stories than all of the others together, a few.
Those overcharged with emotions make any of the others irrelevant, a few. Those that will be looked at once and once more, every time it will be needed to show that it was and it was like that, a few. Those that will resist time, that has the ability to vanish all the others, a few. Those that will be chosen to, proudly, tell what happened to lie down over the pages of a book that we want eternal, like the happiness celebrated inside, are a few.
And those are precious. The wedding photographer knows that they will be around, some half-hidden, some slippery, some shameless, solemn those, intimate there, but with decorum.
He knows that they are the most difficult to find, that the moving around of the others can distract him in their detection and reactions to pick them up, even if he knows that he can trust his faithful cameras and very able lens. His duty is to all of them, but he must be aware of finding those delicacies that, being able to bring out the envy of others, will be, absolutely, the ones that matter.
Of course, each one of the other photographs will be offering themselves to the photographer, some very shamelessly, and they will think that they are the ones. No one, not even photos, likes to be put behind in the choices we need to make, they tell me right away, which is very subjective.
So that the wedding photographer is not responsible for a big mess, with photos crying that they are the ones, that I do not know anything about, that they do not understand why that washout was chosen, being, her, full of halftones calling for a black and white paper that you like so much, that I have everything inside me and you only care about that one with only one detail and many other reasons from those who think they have it, I established two rules.
The first one, I never tell them, I select them when they do not realize it, I do not know if photographs sleep but I can manage it and the second one, I tell them that, without them, the chosen ones do not worth a thing because, alone, do not tell all story. In the end, they are the most important, and the chosen ones, only are needed to mark the chapters. The things have worked and I never had more complaints.
But, it is not entirely a lie. If with some of them I can mark the deepness of what was really important at some moment, with the others, the wedding photographer shows what got us there and, deep down, that is the way to tell a story.
Either all or in summary.
