Following a meeting with a prospective client this week, it was brought to my attention that I had neglected to post some of my more photojournalistic examples of my work on my blog and I wanted to correct this oversight from me.

I like to describe my style of shooting weddings is a mixture of pictures that I have “created” and pictures that I have “taken”, for example I place my bride and groom in some fantastic light, stunning backdrop and crack one of my rather bad jokes, cue lots of giggles and guffaws! “CLICK”, picture “created”. There are also times in a wedding where the images are “taken” with a more photojournalist approach, during the ceremony for example or when something happens and I want to capture the moment without any intrusion. The pictures that are “created” are often the ones that get enlarged and framed for the mantelpiece but it is the pictures that are “taken” that tell the wedding story in imagery and allow my clients to relive all those special moments.

I’m a big fan of Jeff Ascough who I have had the pleasure of meeting at last years’ Canon Pro Conference.  He is a highly respected figure within the industry regarded as one of the greatest photographers in the world and the pioneer of the photojournalistic reportage style of wedding photography.  He’s been shooting his style of wedding photography for about many years and his images are almost all exclusively “taken”. Back in the olden days wedding photographers had the reputation of being bossy people who used huge brick like  medium format cameras mounted on tripod. Their job entailed lining the guests up in a row… SAY CHEESE!  SNAP. Jeff had this idea to go to weddings with smaller rangefinder cameras and just snapping away in the background unobtrusively, he confesses that he doesn’t like interacting with the guests or the couple too much. Although, I don’t try to emulate his style 100%, I learnt a lot from his use of available light.

Below are images from James and Amy’s wedding, all images “taken”…