Travelling Lens

A Travel, Photography and Points Blog

My A-Z process and guide on documentary event photography

Event photographers are documentarians. Or at least that’s my view and style of event photography. I aim to be present but at the same time blend into the background enough to capture the elusive candid moments.

My process has evolved over the years as I gained more experience as a photographer and got more comfortable around strangers. Every event is a new challenge, even if you think you know how the sequence of events typically goes. When you throw in a bunch of different people in a new environment, you just never know what will happen.

I’m no expert when it comes to event photography. I’m simply sharing my personal experiences and what I have learned over the years as I have photographed for friends, family and clients.

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Photographing a first birthday party in Perth

At the end of last year, I was approached by a client to photograph her one year old birthday party that was going to be held at a local community centre. As a photographer I have photographed a number of events for clients but also for family and friends over the years. The client was fantastic, down to earth and easy going when it came to photography. She wanted dome documentary style photography to capture her son Miles’ one year old birthday celebration.

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Photographing interior & architectural photography for 3×3 IE House Project

Architecture and interior design has been a long standing interest of mine. I was close to studying architecture after school, but life took me on a different path. I always enjoying looking at well curated spaces and interesting building designs. During my travels to various places in the world, I love checking out different buildings in the area and doing urban photography. In the last few years of Open House Perth, I had volunteered as a photographer and got to hone my architecture and interior photography skills.

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2-Night staycation at COMO Treasury, Perth

This blog post is a bit different to my previous ones. Like many people around the around, 2020 was a year of very little travel. We were fortunate in Western Australia to relatively low levels of COVID-19 cases and life for the second half of 2020 was relatively normal. We did a number of local WA trips and even did a staycation at COMO Treasury in Perth City as a special celebration. At the time it was a 2-night special deal offered by COMO Treasury which included daily breakfast, champagne, valet parking and a $100 voucher to use at one of the many restaurants in the building.

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