You may be photographing a wedding and not a breaking news story, but it all relates back to basic photojournalism. To tell a story in pictures, you need close ups, scene setting shots and action. In this post, I’d like to focus on photographing closeups – or rather, the details.
I don’t think you hear photographers talk about this very often, but most of us had to overcome anxiety and feelings of being overwhelmed when first shooting weddings. It stems from the knowledge that if you mess up, a family will never have pictures from one of the most important day of their lives. That’s...
As a wedding photographer, you have the wonderful opportunity of capturing a bride and groom’s love story. Its a hard task if you haven’t built a positive relationship with the couple before the wedding day. Without this relationship, your photographs will be missing personality. They will be standard and sterile – void of the unique...
We’re back and we’ve got an exciting new series to announce. Beginning this Thursday (that’s tomorrow!) I’ll be starting a new series focused on wedding photography tips. There are so many great ideas and photographs that I would like to share. Some of the tips were passed on to my by colleagues, but most have...
