Wedding Photos of Looking off

The following “Looking off” 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 “Looking off” 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.

In Boston, a couple had their portraits taken while standing in the afternoon light, casting shadows on the red brick wall behind them.

Boston Couple's Elegant Afternoon Engagement Portrait Against Red Brick Wall in Soft Sunlight

During their session at Lac de la Gimone, France, the couple wrapped up in a warm embrace, capturing the essence of their love as they prepare to say "I do."

Embracing at Lac de la Gimone, Capturing the Essence Before 'I Do'

wind Haute-Garonne looking off warm embrace Haute Garonne Engagement Portrait Lake Gimone

A WPJA wedding photographer captured a photo of a couple posing in front of a grass-covered wall in Clermont-Ferrand, France

Love in the French Countryside: Captured in Clermont-Ferrand

Clermont-Ferrand white clothing Puy-de-Dôme looking off French couple portrait grass covered wall

French couple is looking at the same direction, in front of a orange wall during a Toulouse pre wedding portrait session downtown

An engaged couple posed looking in the same direction in front of an orange wall in a downtown lifestyle session

Toulouse orange wall Toulouse engagement photography looking off downtown Toulouse holding hands

Couple holds hands while looking off into the distance in this Piazza del Plebiscito Napoli engagement photography session

Couple holds hands while looking off into the distance in this old town engagement photography session

urban portrait Piazza del Plebiscito looking off Napoli Naples engagement session

Slovenia wedding photographer | engagement portrait of a couple with their heads in the clouds | Ljubljana pre-wedding pictures

Engagement portrait of a couple with their heads in the clouds, captured in a heavenly and dreamy setting

dreamy setting Slovenia Engagement Photography Ljubljana sky and clouds looking off

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