{"id":27,"date":"2026-08-06T21:18:35","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T21:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/photographer\/2026\/08\/06\/photograph-a-wedding\/"},"modified":"2026-08-06T21:18:35","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T21:18:35","slug":"photograph-a-wedding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/photographer\/2026\/08\/06\/photograph-a-wedding\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Photograph a Wedding Nobody Notices You At"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The best compliment I have had at a wedding was a guest asking, during the speeches, whether the photographer had arrived yet.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Longer Lenses, Quieter Shoes<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An 85mm at f\/1.8 from ten metres away gets you the same frame as a 35mm from two metres, without anybody adjusting their face. Half of wedding coverage is simply standing further back than feels natural.<\/p><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Learn the Running Order, Then Forget It<\/h2><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Know when the rings come out and where the light will be at six o clock, then spend the day watching people instead of a schedule. The moments that end up framed on a wall are never the ones on the timeline.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best wedding coverage is the coverage the guests never register. Longer lenses, quieter shoes and a lot of standing still.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[15],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weddings","tag-weddings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.canvaswp.com\/photographer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}