EXPERIENCES by the PORTUGAL WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER
Sometimes, when a wedding photographer, I find myself asking myself if I am there, on the wedding day of that couple, photographing for them or for me.
That is true. For example, when I am photographing the bride getting ready, with her hairdresser and make-up artist, I find myself trying to find the best but most strange, and complicated, places I can discover in the space. I do not even want to think about the figure I make, especially, when the people in the place look at me.
It is not the first time I have noticed someone looking at me with those eyes that do make us not very comfortable, when the bride, in the metamorphosing process, was the only person inside to call for attention.
The fault is always the same. The point of view. He is the culprit of the strange figures that the wedding photographer is obliged to make.
I believe that those who see me will question my mental state and, as a lady, worry a lot about the cleanliness of my suit that, despite leaving home impeccably, subject to the abuse that the point of view forces me, he never knows how he will be when getting home. It is a sacrifice that he, the suit, endures with gaiety because he knows that he is, also, one of my helpers, and, all of them, accept some dose of discomfort and sacrifice.
At the next wedding, he will be already clean again, impatient for the new adventure.
This is because the wedding photographer takes advantage and uses the time, and the place, to fulfill his obligation, tell the story for the wedding couple, and try to experiment with new points of view resulting in better photos.
We may say that I divide myself, never stopping being me, in the professional with a result to deliver and, at the same time, the mad scientist in the lab, in the process of experimentation, subject to more or less unusual figures that take him to find solutions, for the best of the wedding couple and the next ones.
For this, such…figures are always worth it.
