Mark Seymour Photography

During the past twenty years Mark Seymour has developed his reputation as one of London’s leading professional documentary wedding photographers; winning numerous awards, recommended by the country’s most prestigious venues and gaining many accolades, including becoming the Nikon UK ambassador for wedding photography. Mark’s passion for documenting the curiosities and complexities of people and places is apparent in both his wedding photography and his street photography where his expert eye seizes on the moments otherwise missed. Mark’s unique and recognisable wedding photography style blends reportage photography with elements of the traditional and formal to capture the illusive moments with emotive storytelling images. Mark shares his expertise and knowledge through regularly being a guest speaker at MPA seminars and professional photography shows, as well as providing training in association with Nikon UK.
Mark is highly sort after for his stunning Jewish wedding photography. He will take you on an all you need to know guide of Jewish wedding photography using his incredible images and ensuring you understand the key elements and how best to capture them using documentary style photography. Mark will deconstruct some of his classic story telling images to discuss his process, including how he positioned himself and what he was looking to capture. Mark will also share his lighting techniques which enables him to capture the dramatic ambient lighting of the evenings dancing whilst ensuring there is no colour cast on the couple and their guests. In contrast Mark will explain how he is able to get stunning bridal shots of the couple and their key family groups. Mark is determined to not take his couple away from their guests for too long on a wedding day and yet still provide them with a set of beautiful intimate images of the two of them.
Mark is known for his powerful use of black and white images. Mark will guide you through how he edits his images selecting those key images to convert to black and white. Mark uses Photoshop layers to enhance images and he will breakdown some of his most stunning images to show how he enhanced the story telling elements and contrast of light and shapes that elevates his photography over other wedding photographers and provide you with some top tips to enable you to take your images to the next level too.