Everybody likes to end on a high note at a wedding. The priest usually wraps the ceremony up with an uplifting message to the couple. The music as the couple leaves is upbeat. The best man or MC ends the speeches wishing everyone a good evening. The band build up to a crescendo as the finish their set. And the DJ is sure to get the dance floor full for one last song. For me, when I’m taking photographs at a wedding, I’m also looking to finish on a high note, and the photograph above, taken at a wedding where I was guest as opposed to photographer, is a great example. And it’s all thanks to AC/DC.
This was the last shot I took at this wedding, and it was one of those which, when I looked at it on the back of the camera, I thought “yeah that’ll do”! It captured exactly what I had hoped to capture, and it’s always nice when the last frame you take gives you that sense of satisfaction. It gives you hope that all the preceding frames will have a healthy percentage of shots “that’ll do” as well.
I’m not actually sure if the music that accompanies this scene is actually AC/DC or not, but the tie around the head and the trouser legs rolled up is certainly influenced by them. As for this shot, the guy with the tie around his head and his trouser legs rolled up is the groom.
It’s a scene I’ve photographed before (a similar scene allowed me create the shot that led to this blog’s first post), and one that’s worth capturing at any wedding where it happens, because it’s often the one part of the night where it is the boys, and not the girls, who are the centre of attention on the dancefloor.
Later, after this photo was taken, the woman on the right came up to me and said “you’re the guy who was taking photos at the end on the dancefloor yeah?”. ”Yes”, I answered a little tentatively, afraid she might ask me to delete some. I needn’t have worried. ”I’d say they made for great photos” was her response. She wasn’t wrong.
Air Guitars – best invention ever!