{"id":3168,"date":"2012-10-08T11:22:03","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T16:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/?p=3168"},"modified":"2022-05-29T08:16:14","modified_gmt":"2022-05-29T13:16:14","slug":"857-ottawa-wedding-photography-aa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/08\/857-ottawa-wedding-photography-aa\/","title":{"rendered":"#857 Ottawa Wedding Photography &#8211; A&#038;A"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"vertical\" data-url=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/08\/857-ottawa-wedding-photography-aa\/\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I mentioned <a title=\"wedding photography - Ottawa\" href=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/23\/851-ottawa-wedding-album\/\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.harrynowell.com%2Fblog%2F2012%2F09%2F23%2F851-ottawa-wedding-album%2F','wedding+photography+-+Ottawa')\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a while back<\/a> I was working on A&amp;A&#8217;s wedding album.<br \/>\nWell, it&#8217;s now handed in and I&#8217;d like to show a little more of their day.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ottawa Wedding Photography - documentary style\" src=\"http:\/\/www.HarryNowell.com\/Photo\/blog\/WeddingHarryNowell.com-0962.jpg\" alt=\"Ottawa Wedding Photography - documentary style\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ottawa Wedding Photography - documentary style<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I also mentioned that I shoot weddings with a documentary approach. This means more natural candids of people to tell the story of the day and less staged &amp; technically &#8216;perfect&#8217; photos.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ottawa Wedding Photography - documentary style\" src=\"http:\/\/www.HarryNowell.com\/Photo\/blog\/WeddingHarryNowell.com-1238.jpg \" alt=\"Ottawa Wedding Photography - documentary style\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ottawa Wedding Photography - documentary style<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I use flash when appropriate but do not rely on elaborate lighting or extensive equipment.<\/p>\n<p><em>Why?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Elaborate lighting is cumbersome and limits s<em>pontaneity<\/em>. Even with a lightning fast set-up it takes time and cannot easily follow people being photographed if they want to move.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ottawa Wedding Photography - documentary style\" src=\"http:\/\/www.HarryNowell.com\/Photo\/blog\/WeddingHarryNowell.com-0754.jpg\" alt=\"Ottawa Wedding Photography - documentary style\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ottawa Wedding Photography - documentary style<\/p><\/div>\n<p>There are some amazing photographers who choose to use more lighting to produce beautiful studio-esque imagery for your wedding (and we can recommend some good ones!) I prefer to take advantage of a lightweight approach to capture the fun and produce a candid story of the wedding day.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ottawa Wedding Photography - documentary style\" src=\"http:\/\/www.HarryNowell.com\/Photo\/blog\/WeddingHarryNowell.com-1231.jpg\" alt=\"Ottawa Wedding Photography - documentary style\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ottawa Wedding Photography - documentary style<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Guests are encouraged to &#8220;<em>ignore the photographer!<\/em>&#8221; Even group photos are photographed to draw a natural look from people.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ottawa Wedding Photography - documentary style\" src=\"http:\/\/www.HarryNowell.com\/Photo\/blog\/WeddingHarryNowell.com-0845.jpg\" alt=\"Ottawa Wedding Photography - documentary style\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ottawa Wedding Photography - documentary style<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A&amp;A liked my approach and allowed me to follow the style they enjoyed. They are a fun-loving couple that let their day unfold naturally.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ottawa Wedding Photography - documentary style\" src=\"http:\/\/www.HarryNowell.com\/Photo\/blog\/WeddingHarryNowell.com-0877.jpg\" alt=\"Ottawa Wedding Photography - documentary style\" width=\"450\" height=\"300\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ottawa Wedding Photography - documentary style<\/p><\/div>\n<p>They smiled at the results and took a card for a friend who had asked for it. Almost all of our weddings come from referrals or people who know my style. We do not advertise for wedding photography &#8211; our wedding clients <a title=\"contact - wedding photography\" href=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/ottawa_photographer_contact-htm\/\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.harrynowell.com%2Fottawa_photographer_contact-htm%2F','contact+-+wedding+photography')\">find us<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ottawa Wedding Photography - documentary style\" src=\"http:\/\/www.HarryNowell.com\/Photo\/blog\/WeddingHarryNowell.com-1037.jpg\" alt=\"Ottawa Wedding Photography - documentary style\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ottawa Wedding Photography - documentary style <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet I mentioned a while back I was working on A&amp;A&#8217;s wedding album. Well, it&#8217;s now handed in and I&#8217;d like to show a little more of their day. I also mentioned that I shoot weddings with a documentary approach. <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/08\/857-ottawa-wedding-photography-aa\/\" onclick=\"return TrackClick('http%3A%2F%2Fwww.harrynowell.com%2Fblog%2F2012%2F10%2F08%2F857-ottawa-wedding-photography-aa%2F','Continue+reading+%26rarr%3B')\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[81,90,6],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3168"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5966,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168\/revisions\/5966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.harrynowell.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}