Wedding Photography Gallery - Image 26

Canon EOS 5D - 100th/sec - F5.6 - ISO 250 - Manual - Posed

No matter how big or small the wedding, it is always important to get some special portraits of the bride and groom.

Many women spend their childhood dreaming of this day (don't they?), spend a year or two planning it and organising the perfect dress, make up etc, so these photos are especially important to the bride.

I always make sure that during the preliminary meetings, we establish a time and place/s to get these shots. A minimum of 20 minutes and maximum of 1 hour is what I would recommend. Any longer and you are encroaching on "their" time.

A good time to shoot these and drag the couple away from the proceedings is after the ceremony and group shots have been done. The guests usually head for the bar/reception area and are more interested in having a few drinks than watching what you will be doing.

Also, once you are done, it normally means a grander entrance for the bride and groom to the reception as the guests wouldn't have seen them since the ceremony...it makes for a nice break in the day.

This was taken in an old converted monastery in the heart of Andalucia in Spain where the couple were wed. This walkway is great for portraits and the pillars are great for composition.

I used a telephoto lens and wide-ish aperture to enhance the location and placed the bride to the right of the image to add some "depth".

Lens 70-200 2.8 L at 170mm

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