Here’s my personal take on using the X-Pro2 as a wedding camera.

The pros, the cons and how I configure the camera.

“We wanted the wedding at The Parlour at Blagdon to feel comfortable, welcoming and real. No pretention or falseness. Just us and our closest family and friends. Oh, and a shit load of fairy lights!” - Angela & Dave

I photographed Noor and Callum’s wedding at The Alnwick Garden in Northumberland last year but I photographed their engagement session after the wedding.

Both Noor and Callum have hectic schedules and live outside of Newcastle, so trying to find a time to shoot when they were both free, and in the North East, while I was available was tricky. After pencilling in a few dates that we subsequently had to cancel we simply ran out of time to squeeze in the session before their wedding.

Undeterred we booked in a post-wedding session this January.

Back in August 2018 Angela and Andy eloped from the USA to Edinburgh to get married during the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and I had the pleasure of documenting the day through my photography.

Their day has been featured on the Braw Brides wedding blog.

Angela and Dave joined me at Tynemouth Priory the coast just outside of Newcastle for their pre-wedding session. The air was crisp as the sun started to go down and we hoped for an interesting sunset.

Most people, male and female, don’t like having their photograph taken. They certainly don’t like looking at the photographs in detail after they have been taken. This can lead to long delays when choosing which photographs to put in albums or made into wall art. Sometimes it can even result in an email from the couple who are unhappy with their photographs.

Creating this blog a few months after the wedding allowed me to go back over the photos and see what I captured, what I created.

I see photos with true meaning; candid, fleeting, real moments. Moments full of emotion, feeling or just plain fun. And of course we finished off the day with some glorious night portraits.

It’s impossible to really know what a wedding is going to be like before the day kicks off. You can get a feel from the couple and a sense of the style of wedding they’re planning and hoping for, but until the day it’s all speculation and ideas. On the day, though, it quickly became clear that this was going to be a kick ass wedding!

Sneaking away for couples portraits doesn’t have to mean stiff poses and awkward smiles. I’m more than happy for couples to go off and do their own thing, with me capturing the moment as it unfolds naturally.

Northside Farm is an exclusive use wedding venue, set within 400 acres of farm land in the picturesque Northumberland countryside. It was a venue I’d heard great things about and jumped at the chance to shoot Tash and Adam’s wedding there over the summer.