REVIEW by THE WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHER IN LISBON

Photos of when the bride arrives at the church for the wedding ceremony and the groom is waiting for her

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Photos with some age

In the articles I write, for pleasure and necessity, I often recover wedding photos that have already taken place some time ago. When I go through my archive, I always find a few more that I think are worthy of being brought back to the wedding photographer’s attention and to those who visit the pages of my blog.

On the one hand, I can see if my photographs have resisted the time they already have, if it still feels good to see them again and, on the other hand, it gives me the good feeling of having already made many that are the cement for all those that I still have to make in the future. I never lose track of what has been done to continue with the certainty that whatever comes will have a good base that guarantees to continue my project as a wedding photographer. With the same intensity with which it began some years ago.

The photographer continues to evolve

From time to time, we should reflect on what we are doing, me as me and me as a wedding photographer. To confirm if the project of one is still guaranteed by the other or if we notice any break in the doing that may, also, break the confidence in the decision to continue.

I honestly don’t think so. If, on the one hand, I don’t find a big difference in today’s work compared to yesterday’s, it is also true that I feel that the wedding photographer continues to evolve and to be trustworthy in his, sometimes exaggerated, sense of delivery when he is in the role of chronicler raising stories that he will tell, not in words, but in wedding photographs.

Professional consistency

So, yes, I will continue to bring in my articles the photographs that happened there in time already gone, which was neither centuries nor decades ago as it happens with some chronicles of other stories, but already with some time, given the speed with which it runs today, to be seen with another look by the wedding photographer. Something I am always very careful about is my professional consistency.

The professional and the artist in photography

I learned a long time ago, with a teacher of other things, but where they also talked about photography and, perhaps, mine came from there, the difference between the professional who has to make a product to deliver to a client and the artist who is subject to the obligation of total freedom.

The former must be consistent and deliver to the client, the bride, and the groom, what they expected when they hired him. The second must respect only his freedom of creation and, even with a client for intended work, he will never know what will be delivered to him. Both, however, have the duty of consistency and respect for those who trusted them. This is why the wedding photographer needs to review himself to ensure he keeps going. And it feels good.

Dot by dot:

• Visiting the archive of photographs I have taken at weddings is a good reason to review the evolution of my work and also what has stood the test of time.

• Being able to be the photographer who took and edited them and, at the same time, the most critical one who writes here on the blog, allows me a reading to determine what my future will be in wedding photography.

• Professional consistency. I will only serve my clients well if I continue to feel like a photographer and resist my criticisms and aspirations.

• Remaining consistent means that I have to know what my clients, the bride and groom, expect of me and, at the same time, continue with the freedom that the artist must have, limited by the obligation of that respect.

You need to know:

• Although my approach to wedding day matters has the freedom of the artist, I always have the restraint to know what you will expect from me for your wedding. The professional. Contact me to discuss it.