How I Made This Photograph
I keep a hands-off approach when directing the bride and groom so as to keep things looking natural and candid. Most importantly to keep the couple feeling comfortable and still have them enjoy their wedding day with a painless photo experience.
Sometimes it’s hard for me to explain how I do this exactly and so whenever I come across a photo that helps me illustrate this approach I will share it with you.
For Teri & Henry’s wedding at Balzac’s Coffee Shop in Toronto we walked around The Distillery District. We stopped at one spot and I took a few single portraits of Teri. Then I stood behind her and asked her to keep facing the direction she was standing in. Then I asked if Henry could come over and stand beside her.
That is how the above photo came about.
They didn’t know that the photo I was taking was actually the one of them moving into the pose. They thought the photo I was going to take would be the one of them standing beside each other.
In this moment of them moving into their pose, Teri was fixing her hair and Henry took a puff from his vape and blew it in the opposite direction. It ended up creating what feels like a classic photograph.
I took another photo of him right when he reached her.
What I love so much about this sort of approach is the movement is natural and purely them.
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