As a wedding photographer, it is your main objective to tell the story of how the events during the wedding day transpired – and this is all done through your pictures. Photographers may have varying professional and personal styles in taking pictures, but their goal is the same: to capture the drama and emotions which surround the day.

Top Tips on How to Capture the Drama in Your Wedding Pictures

Capturing the drama in your wedding day shots should not even depend on whether you are a professional or professional photographer. As long as you know how to look behind the lens of the camera, you can take pretty standard shots of the events.

But what should set you apart from all the other photographers is the drama which you can capture using your lens.

Here are a few tips that you need to keep in mind so that you can take dramatic wedding pictures:

1. Be a storyteller.
The best wedding photographers typically use a combination of posed shots and candid shots when covering a wedding. If the bride and groom agreed for you to do a combination of candid and posed shots, make sure that there is a story behind every candid shot that you will take.

As you watch the events unfold, you really can’t help but capture every interesting move of the bride and groom, or their guests during the wedding. Watch out for particularly unique moments such as a close up shot of the groom looking down and nervously fixing his tie just before his bride walks down the aisle.

Or perhaps you saw the bride’s best friend discreetly wiping away a tear while sitting down. Capturing these moments which are unique to each wedding is the best way to capture the drama on film.

2. Look at things from a different perspective.
Perhaps you have a partner in crime – another photographer who is taking the professional wedding shots along with you. This is the best way to create a mixture of the posed and candid shots.

While your friend is taking formal shots of the bride and groom with their family, you might candid take pictures of the subjects talking with each other. These pictures where they are not looking directly at the camera are the perfect way to create dramatic wedding pictures.

3. Be close to where the action is.
Perhaps one of the most common mistakes that photographers make is not being close enough to where the ‘action’ is. If you’re in a large reception hall, for example, stay close to the table where the bride and groom are so that you can take great pictures of them.

Being in front of all the guests also offers you a great perspective of just how much fun they are having during the after wedding party. There’s no need for you to take out the long zoom lenses yet if you can be close to where the action is in the first place.

All in all, capturing the drama during a wedding day is a mixture of your skills as a photographer, being a keen observer from behind the camera lens and being in the right place at the right time.