In Taiwan and south-east Asia it’s called 婚紗
The future bride and groom take photos before the wedding, usually a one day shoot with multiple dresses, a make-up artist and a photographer, both in studio and on location.
In English it’s called pre-wedding.
But I have never really thought of it as “pre-wedding” photos, but rather as portraits of people in love…
Over the years I have shot hundreds of couples, from all parts of the globe and all walks of life, not two were the same.
The dress, the location of course matter, but most importantly for me it’s the people that make the photo.
As we go out to take photos, my goal is to catch that emotion, that feeling between them, of course there will be posed photos and of course I will never count to three… and the idea is to capture them, their personality and love, smiles and moments that define them.
I like the idea that the photo should speak for itself, and don’t normally add much comments to my blog posts, there is a part of me in every photo that I take, it shows how I see the world around and my clients with their own personality create that other part.
A bride is always beautiful, the challenge is not to make the bride and groom look good, it is to create photos that define them, and so if you ask me who and how this couple really is I would just have to show you that photo.
They say a photo is worth a thousand words…
