What is
DOCUMENTARY Wedding Photography?
Documentary (Adjective) : An event that is factually accurate and contains no fictional elements
Surrey documentary wedding photography…
is also known as reportage, story-telling, candid or photo journalism photography.
Documentary wedding photography is an approach observing the natural interaction of people and their environment. It is unobtrusive, letting the day unfold with no interruption or directing what should happen. This approach to a wedding will provide you with a set of wedding images detailing the genuine and unscripted story of your day through authentic moments. Your weddings will be a unique event, filled with a range of emotions, and tiny yet often significant unguarded moments. My discreet style allows me to see these moments, creating pictures that are a rich and heartfelt and reflecting how your wedding looked AND felt.
I don’t hide with a zoom lens like a paparazzi, I’m just me, discreetly moving in amongst your guests, so they the feel comfortable to just be themselves.
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Quietly observing…
blending in with your family and friends, this allows me to document the real emotions and relationships within that moment. You can’t create these, you just have to anticipate them and be in the right place when they happen.
Whilst everyones’ focusing on the bride, there is a split second to document this perfect moment of Grandma wiping away a tear. When the couple received their pictures, the groom didn’t even recall this moment happening.
Get right in…
The dancefloor is an amazing place for documentary wedding photography moments. You need to be willing to get into the action to get the shot. I love this frame, not just for the grooms epic balancing skills of his wife and his drink, but the expression of the girl in the background.
Are you serious …
no, documentary wedding photography is documenting the story that’s in front of you, sometimes it’s emotional, endearing, and other times it’s just tears of laughter.
Authentic moments
It doesn’t matter how many weddings I photograph, each one has moments that take my breath away. Weddings are the only occasion I can think of where so many emotions are created in one day and shared with so many loved ones.
