Best wedding confetti photography
Perfect Wedding Confetti Photography.
Newly weds jumping whilst guests through confetti at a wedding in Rivervale barn
One of the most requested wedding photography is by far the confetti shot.
It is a tradition dated back to ancient times. The tradition of throwing confetti over the bride and groom came from Italy. Flowers, petals, grain or rice was thrown at the happy couple, to bestow prosperity and fertility. Tradition aside, confetti throwing is the action shot of the day and the most mesmerising image a photographer can capture at a wedding.
Confetti throwing might appears to be a fairly straightforward activity and seem fairly easy to achieve, however judging by my experience as a wedding photographer, I found out that there are few easy rules to follow to get those perfect confetti photographs
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Choosing the Right Confetti
From my research about the tradition of confetti, it is grains and rice used for weddings. This symbolises fruitfulness and prosperity. By throwing it at the couple, it’s a blessing from the guests. I have some photographs of some weddings that grains or rice were thrown. However, I find these grains and rice does not make the most colourful or most effective action shots that are required for a contemporary wedding photography.
To get the desired result, it is paramount to choose the right kind of confetti. I usually suggest having large confetti. It could be of any shape. It could be something natural like flower petals or colourful paper confetti. For the real petals, I found dollzconfetti, a company that specialise in real flower petals and there are also accessories that can be personalised for your own wedding.
I, especially like the confetti poppers they have on offer, a unique way of releasing confetti that I have never seen before. For more budget-friendly type, there is the paper confetti, which offers more variety of colour, shapes and the possibility to personalise every individual confetti. In my research, I found Candle& Cake. A company having party and celebration in mind do check them out for ideas.
Sarah and David’s wedding confetti photos just outside the church gate.
The More the Better
For this once in a lifetime experience, I would suggest go big and go OTT. Have lots of confetti prepared for your guests, best yet, if you have more left after the initial release, why not do it again, a different location, a different angle to photograph or different guests’ formations. Let’s have fun with it.
For the confetti shot, volume is everything. In order to capture that special moment, I prefer to see the confetti flying in all direction and the sense of wonder is enhanced by the expression on the newlywed’s faces.
Confetti photograph at Bearwoodlake Golf Club. Guests release confettis in the air
The Release
Arguably there are no rules on how to throw confetti, as long as the direction of the scattering is towards the couple. However, as a photographer, I do think there is a more effective way to throw the confetti to get that perfect shot. I think it’s about the float; it’s about making the confetti float in the air as long as possible.
Despite the guests’ desire to throw at happy couple’s faces to create the comic effect, I always request the guests to release it by lowering their hands and letting go while lifting their hands towards the top of their heads. By doing this, the confetti has the chance to stay in the air longer and this gives me more time to capture the moment.
Rivervale barn wedding photography, couple kissing in confetti.
Beautiful Chaos
To make a beautifully composed image is to have all the different elements working together at a specific moment in time and when I press the shutter on the camera, the image is captured. I always strive to have the best possible composition, most flattering lighting and achievable camera angles.
However, it’s not always possible to do the above for confetti images. Apart from the fact that confetti doesn’t follow a specific flight path and there are dozens of wedding guests eager to join in the action, not mention the smartphone camera brigade and the aspiring photographers with high-end cameras all very keen to capture the images one way or another. All that created is an unpredictable chaos that surprising could produce some of the best images of a wedding.
After photographing so many confetti images and always trying to have the best composition and doing my best to control the crowds, I discovered that sometimes, to just go with the flow, capturing the moments and let the madness take over.
Wedding confetti in the rain
Replace traditional confetti with bubbles, colourful bubbles shows really well in the mid day sun.
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This blog post is provided by Jack Chen ABIPP ARPS. Award winning photographer based in Reading UK, specialising is wedding and portrait photography. If you are interested in any service, visit the website.
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