Marcin Majda Photography -

Hello! I’m Marcin, a London based event photographer and I specialise in capturing the moments from your big day. Be it a wedding, birthday party, christening or a holly communion… no event is too small, no event is too big. I would love to take care of you photography needs and offer my services!

Although based in London, I shoot events right across the United Kingdom, as well as some destination abroad (the USA and Poland being two of them)

My passion is to create images that bring out the best in people - images that are beautiful, fun, exciting, unusual and very personal.

The style of photography I enjoy most is known as documentary photography, or reportage photography.  My philosophy of shooting an event is very simple; follow my instincts & follow my heart – document the event.

Documentary photography is all about capturing the moment and following the passion of the day. I go after moments that appeal to me from the inside and I strive to capture the emotions and energy of the day through the still image.

I will never direct or prompt, move, manipulate or annoy you or your guests in any other way. It is your special day.  Don’t worry of course if you want a handful of group shots - I fully understand the requirement for these and I will undertake any formal shots very quickly to allow you to get on with enjoying yourself!

I am dedicated in to photographing events authentically, sympathetically and responsibly. With your booking of my services I guarantee you creativity, dedication and perfection with stunning results. My wholehearted commitment to you, on your event, will result in true documentation in photographs of your special day.

I prefer shooting with all natural light as it preserves the natural dimensions of a moment in an image. I will always aim to use natural light first (no flash) as the conditions allow! My flash is reserved for those dark rooms and situations where the lightning would be too difficult.

You will often see some grain (noise) in my images. Grain means the camera and the photographer are doing the work – no flash required! Grain is good! It gives the image that natural ‘film’ picture look.

Many people come to me because they appreciate the time and effort I put into the production of my finished images. They often have an appreciation of the style, and not the clinical, over processed digital images that you often see these days.

The images I will produce will be carefully crafted by me both on the day and in the processing procedures that follow - each and every wedding photograph goes through a precise and technical post processing exercise. I personally edit every one of the selected shots so that you are presented with only the very best photographs of your special day. This is all part of my service.

I’m fully insured and shoot exclusively with professional grade Nikon equipment.

Have fun exploring the site, and I really do hope you enjoy my pictures and style – and more importantly, I hope to hear from you soon to discuss your photography requirements.

I would call my style as a mixture of photojournalism and portrait photography, meaning that you just go have fun and I create great images of you interacting, going on with your day and having a blast. I adore close-ups taken with a 'long' lens and very wide aperture – meaning a sharp subject and blurred background. A documentary photographer is story teller, through pictures. Photojournalism is about the story. It’s about the people.

During the session / day I take many photos and, afterwards, I select the best to edit. These selected images are then crafted by hand to bring the image to its full potential. Overall, I don’t shoot simply for quantity of photos; I shoot so that you will get high quality images that you can hang in your home with pride. People who commission images from me don’t do so because they want a thousand pictures. Rather, they value carefully crafted work and trust my eye to create and select that for them.

Images are captured in a high-quality but unfinished colour format. Each image is individually adjusted, using professional techniques, to tone and refine the image (so called colour correction). Occasionally, after finishing an image in colour, I may create a separate black and white version to highlight the emotion of the image, or to render it with a more timeless feel. If this is the case, you will have the option to choose one or both images for your own use. On rare occasions during a photo shoot, I will encounter lighting conditions that are not ideal for producing rich colour in the image, or a situation in which colour would distract or detract from the image. In such cases, the image will undergo only a black and white finishing process. Thus, if an image is delivered to you only in black and white, then it is considered permanently black and white.