This is what happens when you have a lot of confetti...
This is what happens when you have a lot of confetti (and a lot of wedding guests)…..
You get absolutely loads of confetti photos! I’m not a photographer who will limit photos for the sake of a number, so if I take loads of good confetti photos, you’re getting all of the good ones!
I’m a documentary wedding photographer so I won’t instruct people how to throw confetti. I’m more than happy to line people up for a tunnel but after that I don’t want to have an impact on how things go, I’m documenting, not staging. I love documenting all of the confetti throwing, from guests starting to grab it and line up, then however it’s thrown and lands on you, all of the funny faces and picking it out of your hair, everything!
If confetti photographs are important to you then it’s really important to choose an experienced photographer. This is a very fast paced time to be shooting, the subject is moving so focus is more difficult, there are literally hundreds of little objects (confetti!) floating around in between the camera and the subject, so focus is even more difficult. In this instance we were moving in and out of bright sunshine and shadow as the sun going in and out of clouds so I was changing my settings constantly, whilst walking backwards to capture Izzy & Liam as they walked through the confetti tunnel. I absolutely love this part of a wedding day, it’s so much fun.
How I photograph confetti - I like to use a wide-ish lens to fill the frame with as much as possible, and I will usually walk backwards whilst photographing the couple, if there isn’t a videographer. If there’s a videographer present then I’ll work with them to make sure we aren’t in each other’s way so it may not be possible to shoot in my usual way, but I’ll have a quick chat with them first.
Now, I know most people in their right mind would say ‘that’s enough!’ Who needs more confetti shots than that! But me, being me, cannot eliminate good shots, even if there are already way too many. Each shot shows a different expression, or different people in the shot, I can’t bring myself to not let the couple have these photos when they exist!
As the confetti tunnels keeps going, I keep shooting!
I personally think that confetti photos look best in colour to show off all of the beautiful colours, but it’s nice to throw a black and white one in every now and again for variety.
And the aftermath…
If you’d like an experienced wedding photographer to document your confetti tunnel (and the rest of your wedding day!) then feel free to get in touch with me.