Attention. With attention. Whether it’s one or the other, I’m sure it’s both, whatever the difference between the two. Humm!!!…. what a way to start an article about a wedding photographer. It’s true, but the way I see it, they’re not the same. Attention is something that is present throughout a wedding day.
Attention to detail, when the bride and groom get dressed that morning, the ritual begins to pull the thread of the story that will be told in photos. Detail on the part of whoever is in charge of doing their hair, applying make-up, helping to tie the knot, or fastening the buttons on the bride’s dress. Detail so that no one forgets anything essential for the wedding ceremony, from the rings to the bride’s bouquet. Detail for the flowers that embellish and perfume. Details so that the wedding photographer doesn’t forget any of those details that make up so many beautiful photographs.
But for the wedding photographer, there is attention that offers him so many and so many photographs that he doesn’t waste his need for attention on the attention that everyone is paying to the person who is, at that moment, the object of his deep attention. The one who gives a speech, who confirms things that everyone knows about the bride and groom and some that only he or she knows. Who tells them that loves them and wishes them a world of good things.
But the attention a wedding photographer likes comes from those who listen. From those who listen attentively and suddenly offer him a laugh, a confirmation, I didn’t know that, ah now I understand how you met and so many other mysteries clarified by those who, with more or less rhetoric or humor, draw the attention of everyone there.
It’s this attention that he loves. He doesn’t give his cameras and lenses a break, constantly changing them to emphasize the attention of everyone who is paying attention and thus bring all this attention to fill photos that will guarantee the bride and groom in the future that yes, everyone at their wedding was paying attention, just like them.
So the wedding photographer never misses an opportunity to be… attentive.
Note: from a wedding at Os Agostos in the Algarve.
