I have a love-hate relationship with titles of blogs. Is it a titles prerogative to be odd and potentially pretentious, luring you in to a blog post, or should it be straight to the point? Who knows! More importantly, who cares!
This weekend was a first for me. I had my very first pre-wedding photoshoot. It was for some good friends of mine (and Beccas (well, actually they were very much Becca's friends first!)) who's wedding I am photographing in July.
Pre wedding shoots are a great idea for photographers. They allow the couple to get used to having a camera around and the personal/professional manner of the photographer. It also allows the photographer to get used to the couple(!) and learn a little about how they tick! It gives also gives the couple (hopefully) a great set of images away from the formalities of the wedding. Many if not most photographers offer this "service" as a complimentary part of the wedding package. If you're getting married soon (which I know some of you are!) and your photographer hasn't offered this, it may be worth asking him or her why!
I had been looking forward to and planning (as much planning as I do (which isn't much!)) this shoot for a while. Often the couple have a favourite place that means something to them or somewhere that's just nice nearby that would make a beautiful backdrop.
For this shoot we had two locations. The first was the couple's local church that had a recently put up/made a delightful wooden gazebo. The second was the magnificent Royal Holloway University. Unfortunately the weather was very much not on our side! It was raining fairly constantly all day so we were unable to use the outside of the elegant late 1800's red brick building. They stayed under the gazebo and I stayed under a tree at the church, then we tried to avoid the outside at the university.
We had really a really lovely day. It certainly made life easier that I knew them before so there was already that personal connection. It was also aided by the fact that Becca was there so she kept the mood light and came up with some wonderful suggestions and even held a flash when I got in a little bit of a sticky situation! We also discussed all the necessary things for the actual wedding day. Becca and I had been to Nandos the night before and written copious thoughts on a napkin so we managed to get through all of that before we all needed to go our own separate ways.
So that's that done and am pleased with the results. I look forward (with nervous trepidation) to doing a shoot with a couple I have never met before. It will obviously have a different dynamic but I think (/hope) I am a person who can get on with strangers!! We shall see. As I have this job interview I haven't been advertising as a wedding photographer to strangers as I'm assuming I won't be able to do weddings on my own if I'm working for a wedding photographer! So I don't have any of these types of shoots with strangers planned.
I apologise for the potentially poor use of apostrophes. It's one of the (many) grammatical issues I have.
Here is a nice little slide show of some of the photos from the shoot.... I hope you like!
I'm also seeing if I can get my website MacMac Photography to turn up on google by adding little links like this!
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