These days my portraiture is really only engagement shoots with our wedding couples, as Sarah is the studio master so she takes care of the newborns, babies, children, families, and pets. We’ll still shoot outdoor/location portraiture together though. I love shooting people outdoors, using nature as my backdrop and the shoot having a natural vibe to it and Sarah loves shooting in the studio creating Fine Art portraiture with controlled lighting.
Choose a location that has special meaning. A walk along a beach on a sunny brisk winters morning, spring in a forest clearing, sunset in a summer cornfield, motorway underpass covered in graffiti… choose somewhere that stirs emotion in you.
Capture a moment at the beginning of your life story together. A recent engagement with wedding plans starting to form and a couple shoot to immortalise this time in your lives together is a great thing to have. I don’t like to call these a ‘practise run’ for your wedding photography, although they do help you to see a photographers shooting style, but I think of them as a separate memory of you both starting out on this life thing together.
I dig the spontaneity of shooting outdoors. As much as I love Sarah’s amazing Fine Art studio portraiture, my environment is the outdoors. Relaxed, natural outdoor shoots using nature as my backdrop, yup that’s me.
~ The Allgood family, Fareham, Hampshire
I am a crusader for couples having professionally printed albums and wall art. Step inside and hear me out on this.
Not as often as I’d like, but I pen words from time to time and I’m catching up gradually with a backlog of wedding blogs to show off.