The world of weddings post-Covid
In the world of professional photography, you can’t just call someone a photographer. There is so much more to it than someone who holds a box in front of their face and makes it go click. It has taken over 300 hundred weddings and a shed load of cash to create our business and studio.
I chose wedding photography over other genres, it made sense with Jackie my wife being a celebrant, hence I changed my focus (pun intended) from wildlife to weddings. Winning the WIA’s award ‘NZ’s most outstanding wedding photographer’ was the icing on the cake.
There is a perception out there that weddings are full of mayhem and chaos and drama and stress – well they often are, but that is part of the excitement and challenge and part of the reason why I love it! The other part of weddings is joy, excitement, happiness and pure love and emotion. One has to remember that wedding photography is not just about the couple, it includes fashion, family, children, photojournalism, landscape, portraiture to name just a few of the styles required, and you only have one chance to get it right. The concept of capturing these key moments is truly what it is all about. These photos will be the only artifacts left after the wedding for couples to relive their big day.
As a photographer, I am bombarded by people’s experiences of how they have been affected by the outbreak of Covid-19. I have been working on some commercial shoots and of course took much pleasure from the doorstep project in our community, however generally wedding photographers, I feel, will be the ones taking the longest to recover post Covid with 70% of weddings cancelling. With any situation like this, there will undoubtedly be some casualties and this is the reality that has hit our photography industry.