Capturing Weddings By Connecting With Your Subjects
When you watch Orlando, Florida-based photographer Sally Watson photograph a model or bride, you may not notice anything all that unique at first. Sally might tell the subject she loves that pose or look, but that’s nothing uncommon.
But if you get a little closer and listen carefully, you realize it’s not so much what she’s saying but the tone she uses, which is gently animated and punctuated with lighthearted empathetic laughter. You get the sense she’s subliminally signaling to the model that they’re in this together and that he or she should just relax and be themselves.
It’s something you can see in the photos she shoots, as well as the video that her working partner and husband, videographer Dan Watson, captures. The models, brides, grooms, wedding parties, ring bearers, flower girls and other subjects just have a relaxed air about them. (You can see this in the behind-the-scenes video of Sally at work during a wedding here: https://youtu.be/XA4Xifrram8.)
Of course, both Watsons also have a fantastic sense of
