TWO WILSON
ABOUT
“candid”/'kan-did'/
PHOTOGRAPHY STYLE
Documentary wedding photography is taking photographs of what things felt like and not just what they looked like, and is defined as the kind of photography that chronicles significant events. This term was used more as ‘significant to history & news’. But I like to think it suits describes wedding photography really well. Because weddings are definitely significant!
Documentary wedding photography captures things as they happen, without intervention or posing. There are no studios with lights and no asking you to do something repeatedly.
You won’t find loads of assistants running around, either. And there’s minimal interruption to what is happening to ‘get the shot’. To be honest, it’s really more about telling the story as honestly and authentically as possible.
So a documentary wedding photographer would intervene as little as possible throughout the day. Capturing and documenting the day exactly as it happens, with few staged shots and interruptions.
Wedding Photography Storytelling
LOCATED IN
ALL THREE COUNTIES
If I’m there early enough, I’ll start telling your wedding story from set up and capture the decor you’ve chosen and lovingly put together before your guests start fiddling and moving things around.
Whilst one of you is getting ready, I’ll go hang out with whoever wants to get prepared first and gently encourage them to get ready & keep to time while giggling at whatever shenanigans they’re up to!
You might be sitting in a chair somewhere finishing last-minute planning while people buzz around you, getting you ready.
My first favourite moment of the day is when you get into your wedding outfit surrounded by your closest people. There’s this tiny moment when the magnitude of the day hits you, and I love it. Some quick portraits, and we’re off!
I’ll get there before you do and figure out where I will stand so that I can be in two places simultaneously when you walk towards your human.
Then I become invisible. Ok, not really, but I pretend I am as I tiptoe around you, ensuring I get a complete visual of your ceremony. Your face, their face, your guest’s faces, all the reactions and all the emotions.
And then, so quickly, it’s suddenly all over!
Yay! You just got married! Queue confetti, music & cheering!
Have you ever been hugged by 40 people in less than 10 minutes? (Get ready, ’cause that’s what happens…)
I’ll get the shots that no one realises I’m getting. For example, your best friend beaming, little kids running around while your uncle is trying to get a photograph for the family WhatsApp group. It’s all part of your day.