My style is not traditional. My goal is to blend in with the guests, being unobtrusive and respectful of the fact that this is your day. This affords me the opportunity to capture the essence of your day, without affecting it.
For this reason I mostly use small cameras with small lenses. In fact, most guests with cameras often have bigger, bazooka DSLRs (think huge black boxes, with monster lenses and shutter clicks that sound like a rifle!)
My goal is to collect images that together tell the story of your momentous, shared, joyous day. I am not at all interested in photographs that end up telling a different story: the one about how people at your wedding posed for the photographer.
I’ll be there for the whole day - l feel privileged to be there to take on the challenge of recording what happens in an artistic way, and don’t want to miss a minute.
I want to roam around in as many locations as possible, so that I get photos of the important things and moments, and those behind-the-scenes treasures that you miss on the day.
I’ll be close to the action, because only by doing so will you get photographs that are intimate, and allow you to “be there” again when you look at them in the years to come. I don’t use telephoto lenses that destroy this sense. They tend to make images that leave the viewer feeling like an outsider, a spectator.
All this means I won't have time to get more than a few posed group shots. I know these will be important to you, as it’s not often you’ll have all the important people in your lives together in one spot.
To be honest, this is not one of my strengths. I get impatient, wondering what parts of the story I’m missing while the men tuck themselves in and straighten their ties, and the kids are rounded up and promised treats if they would only smile, and I take enough shots so that maybe one of them has everyone putting on their best painted smile, and no one is blinking, looking away, or yelling at the kids at the time the shutter is tripped.
If you want your professional photographer to include these type of photographs, then I need to tell you that I am not the wedding photographer you’re looking for!
(If instead you decide to entrust these shots to the guests with their phones or Uncle Barry with his DSLR, I’ll probably still hang around a bit for the in-between moments when reality is being played out!)
I will personally select and process each of the photographs. In the sample photos you will see that my processing style is ‘filmic’ and not over-processed and stylised.