Most of our work naturally falls into a landscape orientation – it mirrors how we see, how we take in the world. But that doesn’t mean it’s the only way. For us, the frame is always chosen to serve the story, not the other way around.
Take our featured photograph (above) captured during the ceremony. On the surface it feels very “us” – colourful, intricate, a quiet, unposed little moment. But every so often the image dictates the frame, and here it simply worked best in portrait.
The daisies stretch upward, the umbrella rises to meet them, and the guest is caught right in that symmetry. Everything else – the space to the left and right, the noise of the wider scene – would only have weakened that connection. In landscape, it would have been just another picture. In portrait, it becomes a composition built on rhythm and balance, with every line working to hold the eye exactly where it needs to be.
As photographers it’s easy to fall into the trap of rules – to decide what your style must look like and then stick to it rigidly. But we believe rules are only useful if you know when to break them. Our instincts lean towards colourful, layered, landscape storytelling, but the real rule, the only one we won’t break, is to choose whatever frame best tells the story.
In this case, that frame just so happened to be portrait.
