Wedding Day Picture Plan? No plan! While this may terrify some it is warmly and enthusiastically embraced by many others. If you find yourself looking over the documentary and photojournalist wedding photography work on my website then it should ring clear that my way of working is a reactive one. As opposed to a set… Read More…
Wedding Story Book by Philip Bourke
Creating a wedding story book should always be the objective when the dust settles on your wedding day. It’s probably a habit with the majority of married couples on receiving their wedding pictures. They will simply download those pictures to their phone. Perhaps downloading and putting them on a USB (or several USB keys, which… Read More…
Reportage Wedding Photography Specialist
The phone rings in a reportage wedding photographer’s office one day a long, long time ago… Phone: “ring ring” Me: Hello? Phone Person: “Is that the photographer?” Me: Err yes, yes it is (?) Phone Person: I’m looking for a photographer for my wedding Me: OK… what style of work are you after, and how… Read More…
Keeping Your Wedding Photography Candid
My mantra is all about keeping Your wedding photography candid. For me it is the only way, no veering fom the principle concept. I remember one time receiving an email from what I’d term an “unpotential client” to photograph their upcoming wedding. And I was taken aback by the email as it had an almost… Read More…
Creating Candid Wedding Memories
Right back into another hectic season of weddings and being a documentary wedding photographer. Creating candid wedding memories, and I’m getting happily back into a good working rhythm. Already this year I have put in some miles around the country as I do every year, Cork, Kerry of course and certainly beyond. What I personally… Read More…
No two Wedding alike, a Photojournalistic Wedding
A few years back I was sitting down with a potential client seeking a photojournalistic wedding style. I had three similar books, all of course in a. The only major difference was that each book had its own wedding. So I had presented three weddings in exactly the same style book. This was something I… Read More…
Field? Or Drinks Reception?
One of my favorite parts from a wedding can often be the drinks reception. A few years back during a wedding up the country, it may have been Bellingham Castle, anyway, I was sitting having a meal with a videographer, who shall remain nameless. They told me a story about where the wedding photographer suggested… Read More…
An Unplugged Wedding
“An Unplugged Wedding” Sure, it’s as naff as a phrase can be but there is plenty of value in gently insisting that friends and family enjoy the wedding without having the urge to photograph every single minute of it with their cameras or phones. There’s generally a zealous type who will spend much of the… Read More…
When it comes to the Wedding just let the kids be kids!
A while back as I was going around the reception during a wedding somewhere in West Cork. There was a young lad, probably about eight or nine. He was looking really dapper in his cool suit and dickie bow. He seemed to be a bit of a character. Each time I passed him he’d stop… Read More…
Documentary not Mockumentary Part 2
I was approached at a wedding once during prep time and was asked “What time will we all come over for the photos?” So I asked “The photos?” Pretending to be a bit confused. “Ya, you know, the photos, what time will we come over?” And then I say something like “No special time… it’ll… Read More…