{"id":2912,"date":"2010-04-17T19:17:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T23:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/?p=2912"},"modified":"2017-11-06T13:45:42","modified_gmt":"2017-11-06T17:45:42","slug":"wedding-photography-anticipation-and-timing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wedding-photography-anticipation-and-timing\/","title":{"rendered":"wedding photography &#8211; anticipation and timing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/images\/weddings\/NV1_0392.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"799\" \/><\/p>\n<h1>style in wedding photography &#8211; anticipation and timing<\/h1>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure every photographer has this experience, where your shutter trips, and you just <strong>know<\/strong> you have the shot. \u00a0Something that you see &#8211; whether anticipated or just lucky timing &#8211; and you capture it. \u00a0This is how I felt when I captured this moment between Marie and Andrew at their wedding this weekend. \u00a0I got it!<\/p>\n<p>A bit of background to this image:<br \/>\nDuring a Catholic wedding service, there is a short time after the exchange of vows and rings, where the couple are seated again for the Mass. \u00a0With everyone&#8217;s attention now on the priest and the rest of the proceedings, this is usually the moment where a couple have their first nearly-alone time. \u00a0From experience, I know that invariably the couple will then steal glances at each other, or lean in to each other to talk. \u00a0Or they might reach out with a momentary fingertip touch.<\/p>\n<p>Just a little something where they spontaneously show their connection with each other. And this is how I was ready for this brief moment where Marie shaped an <em>I-heart-you<\/em> with her hands for Andrew. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/images\/icons\/heart.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In that sense this then is not a lucky shot.\u00a0\u00a0When you are photographing a wedding, or <strong>any<\/strong> other kind of \u00a0event, whether news or sports or whatever it might be &#8230; the key to getting images that capture something essential about the event, is to be prepared, to observe, anticipate, and &#8216;read&#8217; the event. \u00a0It&#8217;s all about\u00a0<strong>anticipation, awareness and timing<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0Those moments are there.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>More articles on <a href=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/category\/wedding-photography\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wedding photography<\/a><\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>style in wedding photography &#8211; anticipation and timing I&#8217;m sure every photographer has this experience, where your shutter trips, and you just know you have the shot. \u00a0Something that you see &#8211; whether anticipated or just lucky timing &#8211; and you capture it. \u00a0This is how I felt when I captured this moment between Marie&nbsp;<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wedding-photography-anticipation-and-timing\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Read more inside&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,45],"tags":[66,879,876,96,85],"yst_prominent_words":[7871,5560,6150,4163,1324,2066,7869,7870,4448,1020,5562,1226,1224],"class_list":{"0":"post-2912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-style","8":"category-wedding-photography","9":"tag-nj-wedding-photographer","10":"tag-wedding-photographers-in-new-jersey","11":"tag-wedding-photography","12":"tag-wedding-photography-style","13":"tag-wedding-photography-techniques","14":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2912"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2912"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42464,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2912\/revisions\/42464"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2912"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neilvn.com\/tangents\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}