There is nothing more satisfying to a Washington DC wedding photographer than delivering to you an image of the perfect moment from your marriage celebration. We live to take a single photograph that beautifully encapsulates something significant that happened at your wedding. We want you to be transported back to that moment, no matter when you look at it. And if we can give you an entire collection of individual photographs, each of which tells an entire story by itself? Then we can rest easy, knowing that you have gotten the very best in wedding photography.
Getting the perfect photo of a beautiful moment during a couple’s nuptials takes a lot of photographic skill, of course. We need to nail all the technical aspects — the lighting, the camera settings and the focal length, for example. And even more importantly, we have to have the alertness and concentration necessary to press the shutter as soon as the moment is just right. But at the end of the day, there is quite a bit of luck involved too! The moments happen if and when they happen. We cannot manufacture them; we just have to be ready with our cameras.
Naturally, our preference is to get magical images you and your beloved of sharing moments that help tell your love story and that you will want to remember the rest of their lives. That said, your families, friends and the rest of your wedding guests all play an important role in your lives and your history together before arriving at the altar. So photos of them can be just as important for you to have.
Preserving memories of their wedding guests is what prompted us to take this picture for the two people who got married at the wedding featured in this image. We took it on the dance floor during the reception portion of a wedding in suburban Washington DC. One of the wedding attendees was “encouraging” another to enjoy another adult beverage by pouring it in the latter’s open mouth. We saw a perfect moment setting itself up and snapped a photograph as soon as we saw the beer starting to spill out and onto the young man’s chin.
When we sat down to edit this image after the conclusion of the wedding celebration, we decided to turn it into a black-and-white image. As we have mentioned elsewhere on this site, we feel that black-and-white photographs are considerably more powerful than their counterparts rendered in color, and this picture is rife with dramatic tension.
Our fellow photographers from the SLR Lounge agreed. We submitted this image for one of their photography contests and were lucky enough to win the prestigious Summit Award, a prize given to the best two to three percent of the images in the competition. This was a huge honor for us as wedding photographers, because the SLR Lounge is one of the world’s most prestigious wedding and engagement photography communities. Created to help wedding and engagement photographers from around the globe to improve their camera skills, the SLR Lounge represents the best of wedding photography and the best that wedding and engagement photographers have to offer. For that reason, winning the Summit Award is one of our biggest biggest professional achievements.
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