The hardest lesson that I’ve learned as I built my wedding photography business is that so little of being a wedding photographer is actually taking photographs. The time spent with a camera in hand, capturing those wonderful, happy moments is a tiny proportion of the...

I call myself a documentary style wedding photographer because, whilst most of my day is reportage and candid, during portraits I do direct them. Not really posing, but giving them little prompts and things to say or do. It takes their mind off being photographed and...