From the course: Learning Wedding Photography
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Capturing the details
One of the reasons why it's fun attending a wedding--or photographing a wedding--is because often when you arrive at the wedding, especially at the reception, you get to see a reflection of the bride and the groom in all of the details, in all the ways that they planned this event, and as a photographer it's your job to capture the personality of this event, to capture those little small details. You almost want to approach the event from the perspective of an anthropologist. You want to look at it and say, well, what's interesting here, what am I noticing? You may pick up on the fact that perhaps there is a vintage nautical theme, and there are small hand-painted boats on the center of each and every table. Well, you want to photograph those details, because maybe one of the bridesmaids, she stayed up all night painting these, you want to capture that small detail. Also, perhaps the bride and the groom they love the ocean, they love sailing, again, photograph those details. So here…
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