Alone, on purpose.
Halden has photographed a hundred and forty weddings, and she has never once brought a second shooter.
Why one.
Two photographers make two accounts of the same day, and somebody has to reconcile them afterwards. The angles do not match. The colour does not match. One of them was in the room and one of them was in the garden, and the album cuts between two strangers.
One person is slower. She will miss something, and she will tell you so before you book her. What she gets instead is a day that holds together, shot by somebody who was standing close enough to know what was happening.
How she works.
Available light. Two cameras on a strap, three prime lenses, nothing on a stand. She does not direct anybody unless they ask, and people ask more often as the day goes on.
She will talk to you for an hour before the day and then mostly leave you alone during it. If you want to be posed, say so, and she will do it properly. Most people find they want it less than they expected.
Where.
She lives in the hills above Adelaide and most of her work is within an hour of the house: Basket Range, Uraidla, Lobethal, the Piccadilly Valley. She travels for about a third of it. Interstate is a conversation, not a problem.
The facts
- Photographing weddings since 2013
- A hundred and forty days
- Two bodies, three primes, no flash in the bag most days
- Adelaide Hills, and travelling
- About twenty weddings a year