Paris Wedding Photography

Paris. What a great place to get married. Unfortunately I wasn’t shooting a wedding while I was working in Europe. I’d love to do it though. If you’re having your wedding in Paris (or London, or Rome or wherever) go to my contacts page and drop me a message.

To get you fired up here’s a photo of the Eiffel tower I took just after watching a couple of local photographers at work with their brides and grooms.

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Travel Photography Tip. How to Get Great Images From Your Holidays

As I travelled around Paris I constantly encountered enormous groups of tourists armed with the latest high end camera gear. Unfortunately for them, I can pretty much guarantee that their images are terrible and they would have been better off buying some postcards and sticking to taking photographs on their telephones.

In order to get photos better than that of the average tourists you need to do something the average tourist won’t do. You need to beat them to the punch and get up early. Really early. Really, really early. If you want great photos you’ll need to be ready to shoot before the sun comes up. Sunrise in Paris tomorrow is at 5.53am.

You’ll get great light and you’ll get the rarest of things in Paris. No crowds.

And you will be done with plenty of time to put the camera down and enjoy the sights. You’ll be first in line for the Louvre, the Eiffel Tower, the Musee Dorsay, everything. The queues for the usual sights don’t normally start building until 8am (but by 8.10am they are already enormous) and opening times tend to be 9am or 9.30am.

Here’s an image I made of Notre Dame Cathedral with only a few cleaners around. Bliss.

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