Here are 5 things to avoid to ensure your photos are as beautiful as the Wedding Day!
1. Worrying about the weather
Embrace the rain or storm clouds. Whatever happens, if you let it get you down you’ll get a hundred photos where you look down. Rain also makes your pictures look like an actual movie scene!
2. Moving too fast
“Slow down, you’re moving too fast, you’ve got to make the morning last…” ~ Feelin’ Groovy, Paul Simon. Whether you’re walking out of your home, down the aisle or into an expectant venue… the longer you take is the more time you’ll give photographers to move around and give you options.
3. Keeping your dress spotless
Don’t let a pristine dress keep you from laying in the grass or hitting a dirty dance floor… this is its moment to perform. And… Trash The Dress (TTD) after anyway right?
4. Hiding from the camera
This might surprise you but we’ve had some couples shy away from the lens on the day. Years later you’ll regret not being brave enough to ignore the cameras and focus on each other.
5. Not having enough lights
To be specific – one overhead chandelier; one or two single light sources, no matter how bright, is not “lighting”. For warm intimate photos and videos you don’t really need “more light”, you need more light sources. Small, dim lights everywhere is 100 times more beautiful and effective than a big light in one place. Candles, strings of lights in surrounding foliage, even real flambeaux’s help to softly illuminate backgrounds so that you aren’t a bright point of focus in a sea of darkness.
See the photo below for an example of what having a bunch of string fairy lights around your venue will look like!
