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An Anticipated First Look

November 16, 2017

By Jacqueline Tobin

© Wilde Scout

Wilde Scout‘s Katherine Marchand doesn’t set up a couple’s first look the way many wedding photographers do, she says, where the bride walks up to the backward-facing groom and taps him on the shoulder to turn around. “I have them go back to back and hold hands,” the New York City-based photographer explains, “and I let them stay there for a prolonged moment. For me, it’s about the couple seeing one another rather than the heteronormative ‘groom seeing his bride.’ I’ve been doing this setup for a while and have really loved the results.”

This couple was a little older and the last in their group of friends to get married, Marchand says, so emotions were running particularly high. She whipped out her playlist of emotional songs that she likes to use as a soundtrack during a first look and played Prinze George’s “Wait Up” as these two joined hands. Seeing as it was a pretty hot day in August—in the early afternoon, when the sun was at its highest—Marchand decided to position them in the shade, in front of a wall next to the subway. “People kept walking by,” she says, but regardless, “it was a pretty emotional moment—both of them just started crying.”

(Shot on a Fujifilm GFX 50S medium-format camera with a 63mm, 50mm-equivalent lens at f/2.8, 1/1000th of a second and ISO 200.)

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