Wedding Photos of Focus

The following “Focus” 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 “Focus” 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.

As the bride prepared for her special day at Chateau Hermitage de Combas, the detail of her eyelashes were the focus, adding a touch of elegance and glamour to her wedding look

Chateau Hermitage de Combas wedding: Eyelashes add elegance and glamour to the bride's look

An eccentric Siena BW wedding portrait of the Italy couple at Fattoria di Larniano of the bride and groom laughing spontaneously, the bride is on the foreground blurred that raises the neck and you perceive a big laugh, while the focus is on the groom

laughing Fattoria di Larniano wedding venue laugh bw Italy couple Fattoria di Larniano Siena wedding portrait

Paris wedding detail photography shot in bw of the Ceremony and the rings

Black and white wedding detail photography of the ceremony and rings, with the focus on the groom

groom ceremony wedding bride detail photography black and white Paris

Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany Couple walking on the field - Engagement Photography - Portrait contains: grass, focus, sunlight

Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany Couple walking on the field in this Engagement Photo

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In this San Francisco engagement portrait shoot, the photographer focuses on a few branches of beach side plants while the couple embraces out of focus in the distance

San Francisco countryside grass fields rural grass field couple embraces

Lower Saxony wedding photographer captured this detail shot of the wedding rings resting on their dogs nose in Germany

grass Lower Saxony ring detail green ring Color rings

Singapore wedding photographer captured this detail image of the bride and grooms rings being held up by bamboo

color ring detail detail rings ring green

Phuket wedding photographer captured this black and white photo of the wedding guests in the background as the bride and grooms clasped hands are out of focus in the foreground

black and white parents Phuket ceremony father focus camera

Wedding photograph from Bali | Image contains: ceremony, color, kiss, lipstick, red, dress

bride ceremony outside green outdoors dress

Documentary Wedding Photograph in Victoria | Image contains: man, black, white, glass, ring, hand

Photo by: Jenna Shouldice - Victoria British Columbia

Jenna Shouldice groom man ring glass Black focus

Nova Scotia Wedding Photography | Image contains: cake, bride, groom, color, indoors

focus food reception hand cake cutting Nova Scotia cake

Providence Documentary Wedding Photographer | Image contains: wedding guests, hugging, dancing, black, white, reception

dancing black and white hands focus embrance dance

Wedding Photographer in Chicago | Image contains: detail, henna, feet, bride, getting ready, color, chair

chicago weddings henna Color Chicago feet focus chicago bride

New York - Long Island Wedding Photography | Image contains: getting ready, bride, mother, mirror, reflection

Color hands getting ready focus mirror reflection

New South Wales Wedding Photojournalism | Image contains:black and white, bride, groom, reception, wedding guests, ring

sing trees pen shadow focus black and white

focus red chair window lighting white

circle color ring detail rings focus ring

black and white heart details bald focus hair

Paris wedding photography | photo of the mother of the bride embracing her before she walks down the aisle

Paris focus emotion mother hand bride parent

WPJA contest judges have been recognized by their industry peers, winning top awards as staff picture editors, staff photojournalists, and newsroom mentors while working for these and other leading publications and journalism organizations.