“You may kiss the bride.” The moment caught in a photograph with a remote camera. I’m in the back taking photos, can you find me? And at the same time I have a camera with a wide angle lens mounted behind and above the couple to get a different view of the same moment in a photo. I use wireless triggers so when I take a picture from the back the other camera also take a picture. If you look at the photo below you can see what the moment looked like from where I was standing. The box marks where the camera is hidden behind the flowers. Sports photographers use remote camera all the time. Mounted on backboards at basketball games, in the net at a hockey game or maybe overhead at a football game. But what better place then at a wedding to use them. That way I can get shots from locations I can’t be. Even if I worked with a 2nd photographer more often that person wouldn’t be able to stand right next to the couple either. It would kind of wreck the moment don’t you think. I don’t always get a real nice photo from the remote but you just never know. So when interviewing photographers ask them if they use remote cameras at all.

The image above was shot with a remote camera and the image below shows where it is hidden at the alter of this church.

This remote was under a chair in the front row. I just had to make sure a guy would be sitting there (no dress hanging down), find out who and ask him to keep his feet apart.