{"id":38231,"date":"2016-02-08T05:04:44","date_gmt":"2016-02-07T18:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/content.easyweddings.com\/au\/articles\/six-romantic-shots-try-wedding-day\/"},"modified":"2021-11-10T04:35:27","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T17:35:27","slug":"six-romantic-shots-try-wedding-day","status":"publish","type":"au-article","link":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/articles\/six-romantic-shots-try-wedding-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Six romantic shots to try on your wedding day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Unless you\u2019re a supermodel like Naomi Campbell who knows how to work a camera and sashay down a catwalk, posing on your wedding day can be quite daunting. How do you know which is your \u2018best side\u2019 to pose? Is now the time to crack out your best blue steel gaze?<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of couples think photos are awkward and that they\u2019re going to be looking at the camera a lot. But as a photographer, if I ever put them in a position where they\u2019re uncomfortable, I just get them to reposition themselves so they\u2019re in a comfortable place, where they don\u2019t feel posed and just have fun with it.<\/p>\n

A lot of the time, I don\u2019t get them to look at me, but at each other. As I say to groom, \u2018When in doubt, just look at your bride and smile at her,\u2019\u201d says Sydney-based photographer Samantha Heather<\/a>, who quit a lucrative full-time corporate job two years ago after she fell in love with photography.<\/p>\n

Samantha describes her work as having a photo journalistic quality about them, with a focus on capturing beautiful fleeting moments between people.<\/p>\n

Rather than force her clients into unnatural, stiff poses, Samantha prefers to have them interact with each other in a way that is easy and familiar and it\u2019s usually those shots where she can capture special moments between the two.<\/p>\n

\u201cI love those little details that when put together, they create a bigger picture of the wedding, whether it\u2019s the way a dad cried when he saw the bride or when the flower girl falls on her face. Those are the things that make a wedding unique and I like telling those parts of the story,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

From romantic and intimate to cute and silly, here are six of Samantha\u2019s favourite poses for brides and grooms to try on their wedding day.<\/p>\n

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A familiar embrace<\/h2>\n

One of the first things Samantha asks her clients<\/a> during a shoot is to simply hold each other in a way that\u2019s comfortable to them, whether it\u2019s a tight squeeze or a romantic hand-hold. Not only are the results quite natural, but it\u2019s a good way to ease a camera-shy couple into the shoot, she explains.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of the time, people haven\u2019t had a professional photo taken of them before and it can be quite daunting,\u201d she says. \u201cSometimes, you might have two photographers or three videographers and a bridal party watching, so it can be quite intense and feel very awkward. This way, it\u2019s simple for them to ease into the process.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Baby got back<\/h2>\n

In this shot, Samantha asks the groom to stand behind his bride and give her a big cuddle. It\u2019s an ideal pose for those men who are feeling awkward. Often, men feel more at ease if they\u2019re doing something with their hands in a shot, she says.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis one\u2019s great because there are so many different things he can do. He can nuzzle into her neck or hold her hands, squeeze her or tickle her. It\u2019s quite a comfortable pose – almost like spooning while standing up!\u201d she explains.<\/p>\n

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Come kiss me<\/h2>\n

When sharing a smooch for the camera<\/a>, the\u00a0couple are simply focussing on each other and not looking at the camera at all. And from where Samantha is usually placed in front of the couple, they\u2019re not usually able to see her at the time.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven the moments coming in or exiting from a kiss are beautiful, because they\u2019re sharing that special moment and they\u2019re as close as they can possibly get. It\u2019s very intimate in a way that\u2019s unique to the couple themselves,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

This is often the first kiss a couple share after a ceremony, away from family and friends, so they\u2019re often more relaxed with each other, too.<\/p>\n

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Walk this way<\/h2>\n

Unlike standing poses which can sometimes become a bit stiff, photos of the couple walking hand-in-hand either towards the photographer or away from him or her are a lovely way to get them to loosen up. They could even have fun with it and perhaps dance together, suggests Samantha.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey can just have a conversation with each other and often this is the first time they\u2019re talking to each other as husband and wife without anyone else butting in. They can catch up and ask each other how their morning was,\u201d she explains.<\/p>\n

\u201cOften I get the couple to walk away from me at first and because I can\u2019t see their faces, it\u2019s a private conversation. It\u2019s a great chance for them to catch up and it makes for a great photo.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Up close and personal<\/h2>\n

In this romantic pose, the couple get as close as possible to each other without kissing, which usually creates some very sweet moments. Samantha loves capturing that intimate connection between a newly married couple.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn your wedding day, you\u2019re so full of emotion. You\u2019ve just married the love of your life and it\u2019s so nice to feel the emotion between the two,\u201d she says. \u201cThey’re usually giggling because they\u2019re so close and can\u2019t kiss. Their noses and faces are so close and they’re nuzzling into each other. It\u2019s very beautiful.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Whisper sweet nothings<\/h2>\n

Lastly, Samantha asks the groom to whisper a secret into his bride\u2019s ear. She loves zooming in on those moments to capture the intimacy between the two and their changing facial expressions.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt can either be cute, or depending the couple, it can be a bit inappropriate or naughty. Because I can\u2019t hear what he\u2019s saying, the groom\u2019s often up for saying anything and gets a good laugh out of her. They can be silly together,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes I ask the groom to explain the moment when he saw her walking down the aisle and what he was thinking when he saw her. That gets a beautiful reaction from the bride. It\u2019s so intimate. I love it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38232,"template":"","au_article_tag":[858,1224,400,401,402,291,1565],"class_list":["post-38231","au-article","type-au-article","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","au_article_category-general","au_article_category-weddingphotography","au_article_tag-intimate-photography","au_article_tag-photographers","au_article_tag-sydney-photographers","au_article_tag-sydney-wedding-photgoraphers","au_article_tag-wedding-photographers","au_article_tag-wedding-photography","au_article_tag-wedding-photoshoot"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au-article\/38231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au-article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/au-article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au-article\/38231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"au_article_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easyweddings.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/au_article_tag?post=38231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}