Turid and Erik booked me as their photographer and videographer for their wedding on Tromøy. An engagement session was part of the package, and on a summer evening in July — six weeks before the wedding day itself — we met at Sognsvann in Oslo.
It was one of those evenings you hope for when you book an hour in front of the camera. The light hung low over the water, it was warm enough for thin clothes, and the birch trees along the lake gave me the kind of frame where I didn’t have to do much beyond press the shutter.
Turid and Erik are the kind of couple where most of my job is staying out of the way. They laugh the whole time. She teases him, he laughs back. Being in front of a camera for the first time is rarely comfortable, but here I noticed little of that resistance. That’s the explanation for how the photos turned out.
For me, an engagement session is a kind of prologue. We get to know each other. By the time we meet again on the wedding day, we’ve already been through a version of it. Nobody worries about how the camera feels on that day — it already feels like something we’ve done before.
You can see their wedding on Tromøy a few weeks later here.