DOCUMENTARY WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHERS
- OUR APPROACH TO YOUR WEDDING DAY

The key to capturing great documentary style wedding photographs is making sure that everyone around us is relaxed and immersed in the day rather than thinking about the camera.

To do that we don't pretend to be invisible, we simply take a disarming approach and take a lot of pictures. Sometimes we'll even take photographs that we know will never make the cut - we just want your guests to get used to the idea of being photographed so that they can gradually get used to it and, in turn, forget about it. The more relaxed they are, the more facets of their personality we can capture - unguarded, real moments that remind you in years to come not just how someone looked but a little bit of who they are and the relationship you share.

We don't take a one-size-fits-all approach, we adjust our approach to best fit the day and the people around us. If you need someone to talk to and have your back, we're there for you. But if you need to pretend we're not there at all that's absolutely fine - many of our couples are incredibly camera-shy, and we're happy to work away in the background.

One thing is always constant though - as documentary wedding photographers we won't ask you to do anything at all. Unless you request some portraits or groups (which we're always happy to facilitate), we won't interfere in your day, we'll just move our own feet and place the camera where it needs to be to capture the most creative photographs from the scene in front of us, whatever it happens to be.

Combining the wedding dress being moved with a frame from a TV show to create a documentary photograph outside the big "moments" of the wedding day.

"You never know what will prove to be the most powerful memory or revealing of moments."

To us, every part of your wedding is equally important, from the exchange of rings to a group of guests standing around doing nothing in particular. Our job is to avoid preconceptions, immerse ourselves completely in your wedding day and see every scene as an opportunity, because you never know what will prove to be the most powerful memory or revealing of moments. Our favourite parts of the day; the moments where so many of our photographs are found, are often the parts where it appears that nothing of visual interest is happening at all.

This photograph shows the initial spot - the groom smoking in a courtyard. This is a scene that could easily be dismissed and is not yet a photograph, but we can see opportunity in the separation of light between our groom and the area behind him.

As guests begin to spill out into the courtyard we continuously make micro-adjustments to our position and look for balance and clean lines between every element of the frame, allowing spontaneous moments to unfold within it.

FINAL IMAGE.
We work to the principal that "there's always a better shot", so even if we capture a photograph that looks good, we continue to work the scene until the possibilities are exhausted. Here we are able to frame multiple guests in the scene, each with interesting light, clearly defined space and individual body language.