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A wedding photographer conclusion about gay wedding photography
From a wedding photography viewpoint, gay wedding photography is not very different from traditional opposite sex wedding photography.Advice to photographers at gay weddings
If you are asked to be the wedding photographer at a gay wedding it's better to take a neutral, detached view.Forget any preconceptions you might have about gay people and just concentrate on taking good pictures.
Really, this attitude is no different to the attitude you might have towards any other kind of photography.
If you were taking photographs that involve a certain issue you would not get emotionally involved in that issue (would you?).
So why become emotionally involved in the gay issue, if there is a gay issue?
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Gay wedding photography
Outdoor gay wedding photography
Outdoor gay wedding photography is similar
to opposite sex outdoor wedding photography as far as
photographic composition is concerned, in both genres the photographer
will probably look around for a suitable background or `prop' to pose
the couple against and will almost certainly take a picture
of them holding hands. If a tree is available he will probably use it
as a background for some of the shots.
I used a tree as a prop for the photo below. The
picture has been cropped but in the
original version the branches of the tree spread out
over the couple's heads, and I also took some photos of them looking
romantically at each other through a fork in the
branches.
Unauthorised civil partnership wedding ceremony fashion statement
Wedding photographers probably shouldn't give advice about what to wear at weddings but can I just say that if you're a same sex male couple you would look really dashing and and you would also help to create a really good wedding photo if you both wore white outfits at your civil partnership ceremony.
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Outdoor gay wedding photo
Gay male `bride and groom' after their civil partnership ceremony, sometimes called a gay wedding.
About gay wedding, same sex wedding or civil partnership wedding photography
The ceremony is very similar, the bride and groom stand in front of an official and make their vows, or promises to eachother. The vows are not the same vows that are made at an opposite sex wedding.
The gay bride and groom did not kiss after the wedding
The `bride and groom' did not kiss each other after the ceremony at these weddings, the way that an opposite sex bride and groom might do. This might be because they preferred not to do or it might because they didn't want to be aggressive about their sexuality. But every civil partnership ceremony is different, sometimes the couple kiss .Gay bride and groom obviously in love
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The atmosphere at a gay wedding
The atmosphere was very similar to the atmosphere at an opposite sex wedding.Everyone seemed to be happy and relaxed, no-one looked embarrassed or ashamed.