Wedding Photos of Slow shutter speed

The following “Slow shutter speed” images were created by documentary wedding photographers from the WPJA, who regularly submit their best candid moments, artistic portraits, details, and scene setters for review by our WPJA competition judges.

WEDDINGS + ELOPEMENTS + ARTISTIC PORTRAITS & DETAILS + ENGAGEMENT SESSIONS

Some of the “Slow shutter speed” marriage photography samples below may have come from the getting ready events, the actual wedding ceremony, the reception after-party, an engagement session with the couple, or possibly be artistic portraits or detail shots.

FINE ART WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHY: Our Artistic Guild award winners take a more creative approach to wedding day Portraits and use their innovative skills to capture the Details of each couple’s special day. The Artistic Guild’s Scene Setters are some of the most notable and breathtaking from within the artistic WPJA contest categories. Playing with light and shadow, special effects, and post-production editing, these images embrace the artistic component of wedding photography.

PRE-WEDDING ENGAGEMENT PHOTOGRAPHY: The story of every couple starts long before the wedding day, and the engagement marks one of the most important milestones in their story. Engaged couples often want to celebrate the occasion and announce their upcoming wedding with a photoshoot. Pre-wedding portraits of an engaged couple can be just as moving and compelling as the images taken on the wedding day. Engagement portraits can win a Diamond Award, an exclusive WPJA award whose winner is selected from the best engagement photography in the world.

Bride and groom ride bicycles through Yosemite National Park on their way to the wedding reception, captured with a slow shutter speed creating a blur effect on the roadway.

Yosemite Love in Motion: Wedding Bike Ride

Awarded for its modern, and contemporary approach, this artistic wedding day image captures the couple in a romantic scene at a Parisian cafe, with a slow shutter speed freeze-framing their kiss in time.

Parisian Cafe Kiss: A Timeless Moment of Contemporary Romanticism

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The couple gazed at each other at the fair with a slow shutter speed, creating an elegant engagement portrait in Chartres

The couple lovingly gazed at each other, creating an elegant engagement portrait at the Chartres fair

Chartres Engagement Session motion blur couple posing Chartres slow shutter speed carnival rides fair

Zagreb lifestyle engagement photography of a Croatian couple kissing at night on the streets with the crowd a blur from a slow shutter speed

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Dallas post proposal photography showing a smiling Texas couple as the train was coming and and shot at low shutter speed for making more movement of a train

Texas couple train Dallas Train Station slow shutter speed Dallas photographer moving train Brandon Lai

A romantic Venice pre wedding session with an Italy couple sitting on steps with pedestrians passing in motion blur from slow shutter speed

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Guangxi wedding couple artistic image session with the bridal party running in Nanning around the couple using slow shutter speed

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Burgas, Utopia Forest Bride and Groom in slow shutter speed wedding portrait in black and white

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black and white wedding portrait of a couple posing and a bicycle passing by, using a slow shutter speed

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Paris Couple in metro during a slow shutter speed engagement portrait session

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Central London pre-wedding couple photo session - Slow shutter speed silhouette of the couple

pre-wedding couple photo session with a Slow shutter speed and silhouette of the couple

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Paris Reception Photography with slow shutter speed - France wedding images

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slow shutter speed Paris Reception Photography Ronan Jégaden The groom

Subway engagement portraits of a couple at train station | Athens photographer pre-wedding photographer pictures

Engagement portraits of a couple at a subway train station with a slow shutter speed, creating motion blur

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