December Weddings - Sarah & Daniel

 

Sarah & Daniel were married at Manchester Town Hall recently. This was to be my final wedding of 2011, and I have to say I'm looking forward to some time off over Christmas and the New Year. Photographing two weddings a week or so apart, but at the same venue can be problematic to a lot of photographers. The temptation is always there to shoot the same set of images for both clients, and hope they never meet or see each other's images. But these two weddings are back to back on my blog for starters!

Sarah & Dan's wedding was a late start - 4.30pm on a December day means one thing. It's dark - No daylight at all to use for this one. And the reception was inside the Town Hall too. In fact, we never ventured out into the cold dark evening to be trampled in the Christmas market (thanks Sarah!) I thought long and hard about how to approach this wedding - I have other low light weddings to photograph in January and February too. So I took the plunge and invested in a new Nikon D3s camera, which gives a little more 'headroom' in low light situations. And very well it did too, working alongside my (still favoured) D700 bodies on the day. So, with less fill-in flash required, and getting to use all my fast prime lenses (no zooms on this wedding - too cumbersome) and at very high ISO settings, I went about the day's shooting, approaching the task ahead like every other wedding.

So, without further ado - I give you my favourite images from the day....oh..and apart from the two featured posed formal images, NOTHING was set up!!

 

As Sarah arrived at the Town Hall, she stopped to speak to her bridesmaids intermittently,      who were off-camera organising themselves. Real-life documentary wedding photography      with no intervention from myself.