Shooting Style

Emotion is the central theme of my wedding photography. Any photograph can help you remember how your wedding looked - but it’s my goal to help you remember how your wedding felt.

I aim to shoot photographs that will allow you to place yourself inside your special moments every time you look at them. When viewing your album, I want you to feel the same overwhelming emotion you experienced when you peered into the mirror after putting on your dress. I want you to feel the fidgety nervousness as you prepared to leave your dressing room. I want you to feel the pounding of your heart as you prepared to walk down the aisle. And when you share your album and photographs as your family grows, I want your children and grandchildren to feel the emotions for themselves and imagine what their own special day will feel like.

Beauty in the details

In addition to the obvious moments, I place considerable effort in capturing the tiny details that comprise your special day. You’ve spent so much time, money, and energy to make everything perfect, and yet you’ll be so busy participating that you might not be able to pay attention to all the details! I work hard to make sure the decisions you spent so much time weighing (What font for the placeholders? What color tablecloths? Which centerpiece?) receive as much attention as they deserve.

Getting technical

I shoot almost exclusively with wide-open apertures, which create a very shallow depth of field to drive focus to a photograph’s emotional details. I enjoy using long lenses which compress my photos and spotlight my subjects. These telephoto lenses also permit me to stand back and be as unobtrusive and discreet as possible. (I like to be a fly on the wall with a more photojournalistic approach.) At the same time, some of my favourite photographs are taken with a very tiny lens that lets me get up close to the details. I try to use natural light as much as possible, but I’ll bounce a flash off the ceiling to supplement the available light if necessary.