Instant favourites #5 “Telling the Story”
Why documentary style photography is the right choice to to tell compelling wedding stories
With documentary photography, telling a compelling story is always paramount in the way I go about shooting and editing your wedding.
I’ve highlighted a couple of images from a recent ceremony which highlight how I accomplish this. In general what it comes down to is being in the right place at the right time and able to be nimble enough to capture things as they happen. In the first image, Matthew and Natalie hired in a wedding singer who went into action as soon as the wedding breakfast started to wind down. I can’t recommend this enough – it gets everyone up and out of that post meal torpor and into party mode really fast. The show started with the “waiter” coming to the front and falling over, which immediately drew everyone’s attention. The gentleman at the far right of the image started shouting for a doctor and. As he got up he started regaling the young lad who sprung up to help him with that wedding classic “Can’t Make My Eyes Off You”. It really kicked off the rest of the day.
In the next image, its about as simple a it gets. Taken later on in the evening it’s quite self explanatory but what draws me to it is the intense happiness it conveys.
