It’s been almost a year since Prince Harry and Meghan Markle announced their engagement and now we’re finally hearing from their photographer, who reveals exactly how he got those dreamy pics of the couple.
In an interview with The Business of Fashion, Alexi Lubomirski, who also shot Harry and Meghan’s wedding photos, says he talked to the couple before deciding on his approach.
And one word that came out for the engagement pictures was ‘authentic.’ They wanted it to be authentic to them, which is why we kept it very loose. There was this thing between them. He’d be talking, and he’d suddenly look at her and she’d glance at him, and they’d lock eyes and they are smiling. It was a sparkle. And so, I said, ‘Listen, you know what? This, what you’re doing right now, is exactly what I want.
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About six months after the engagement photos, when Harry and Meghan exchanged vows inside Windsor Castle, Lubomirski said he wanted to break the mold of the traditional royal wedding day shoot. “We wanted it to look glamorous, as it is the royal family, and you know the setting and the people involved. But we wanted to break it,”
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“Royal photography over the last century had this kind of symmetry to everything: the pillars are behind them over here, et cetera. And so we set it up and it was all looking great… and that silly little voice came into my head: why don’t you try shifting it, twisting it, by 45 degrees? And my team were like, ‘Really? We won’t have symmetry?’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, we will just have to try it and I don’t know why,’” he says. “We wanted it to look glamorous, but we wanted to break it.”
If you look at one of the most famous photos of the day, with all the royals in attendance, you’ll notice it was shot at an angle.
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