Savoring the moments of the ceremony

Once the ceremony begins in most weddings, it's time for the photographer to disappear,…to become invisible, to start to shoot from the sidelines.…In other words, the main focus isn't you.…It's not about you crafting or directing certain shots, rather it's about you drifting to the…sidelines and capturing the events as they unfold.…So here what I want to do is take a look at a few photographs and talk about some things…you might want to consider when you're photographing a ceremony.…In this first picture, you can see that we're inside of a church, and here I'm using a wider angle lens.…

Sometimes, you want to use those wide angle lens in order to establish the scene.…It's really important, though, that you don't go too wide, because if you go too wide the church can look empty.…You want to make it look full.…You want to take this perspective that it makes the viewer look like they're there.…Here's another photograph where I just moved over to the side, and you can see, again,…we're just really capturing the scene.…