Donna Sharpe Photography // portrait and wedding photography in Cornwall

Is that even a word?  Dunno, but I’m using it regardless.

On the weekend, I had THE best time second shooting for the very brilliant Rosie Parsons.  Rosie is a photographer whose work I have admired for some time, so I was bowled over when I had the opportunity to go along with her and photograph a very beautiful wedding in Plymouth.

What an awesome day.  A very long, exhausting but awesome day.

Anyone who ever questions the cost of wedding photography… seriously, don’t.  Forgetting the boring stuff like the cost of running a business, insurance, equipment, travel, admin, time shooting, post processing etc., there is the mightily heyooooge issue of the responsibility weighing on your shoulders.  The bride and groom get this day once and once only.  YOU are being paid as a professional to capture it forevermore.  It is your job to imprint whether on film or in pixels, the key moments of their wedding day – bride walking up the aisle, exchange of rings, first kiss, speeches, and not just in a technical way, but a way which evokes the atmosphere of the day.  To be able to instill emotion and feeling and love and beauty.  Really, it’s no mean feat.

So, if you’re on a hunt for a wedding photographer, and you value having precious images of your big day in years to come, don’t skimp on your wedding photographer.  Choose someone that you have a connection with and who will do you proud because once those just-lived-it memories of the day have gone, the photos are what you will look back on, and you can’t put a price on that.