Wedding Portraiture

The current trend for reportage wedding photography has meant a decline in the call for good quality, and perhaps old fashioned, wedding portraiture. I think this is a shame. Many of my best pictures are portraits - not stiff, rigid poses, but modern and contemporary photographs. What I am trying to say - and perhaps not very well - is there is still a need for well composed wedding portraits. A few well-taken photographs will outweigh several hundred snaps.

Here are some of my favourite wedding portraits:-


(above) Everyone loves to see a picture of a beautiful bride and it is always nice to capture some full length photographs of the bride.


A traditional bride and groom photograph may seem a little uninspiring but I think they can make really nice pictures, if taken well.


I call this a walking portrait. I had asked the bride and groom to take a stroll and captured them in mid-action. The picture looks like a reportage photograph, partly because of the black and white texture, but it is a portrait.


A casual looking portrait of the bride and groom. I was about 50 yards away with a long range lens. This meant that I was not so "in their face" and helps to create a more relaxed wedding photograph.