THE BRIDE AND GROOM and THE WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER IN PORTUGAL
Some photos from the sessions with the bride and groom during the wedding day
Decided to photograph weddings
Several times I wrote, here, about my great commitment and joy, about the photos with the couple on the wedding day. It was my first impulse when I decided to photograph weddings. In another post, I also wrote about my attraction to landscape photography, which is a great teacher for doing photography based on portraits.
Doing landscape photography we learn a lot about the great notions we need to photograph. Composition, balance, harmony, the proportion between light and shadow, shapes and vanishing points, and all other things we need to care about doing a photo. Also, the same as looking at one photo and learning to appreciate it.
The emotions of the couple, in the wedding photos
People are, also, great landscapes and more complete if in a group. The way we need to know to find the best point of view of a landscape, the same is needed to approach a couple, in front of my camera, on their wedding day in the beautiful space chosen for the celebration. As a wedding photographer, I can fulfill that taste by photographing people. Especially on that great day.
My first inspiration is the cinema. Since the great melodramas from the 30/40 decades of the twentieth century the romanticism and the black and white image, the integration of chosen places to some classic compositions as the more modern cinema with motion sensation to join, in the photo, the emotions of the couple.
I always wish that the couple finds, in my photos, the recognition of what happened during their special day. That is the duty of the wedding photographer.
