<p>Shot from the far bank once the light had gone, letting the building's own lamps do the work. Ten quiet minutes outside is usually all a couple needs for a frame like this, and it is the part of the evening most people are glad to have back.</p>
<h3>More from the day</h3>
<figure><img src="https://michaelseeds.cdn.prv-modulify.website/projects/wedding1.webp" alt="Bride and groom standing in a red arched doorway of a stone mill at night" loading="lazy" /><figcaption>Threshold &middot; County Down / 2025</figcaption></figure>
<figure><img src="https://michaelseeds.cdn.prv-modulify.website/projects/wedding4.webp" alt="Couple beside a lit wood-burning stove in a stone-walled room" loading="lazy" /><figcaption>Hearth &middot; County Down / 2025</figcaption></figure>
<p>Full-day coverage runs from the preparations through to the first dance and is delivered as 400 or more edited photographs in a private online gallery, usually within four to six weeks. A preview follows within days.</p>

Blue hour on the water, the couple held in the one warm doorway of a County Down mill.

Dusk

<p>Backlit, wide open, and made in the last half hour of usable light. Most of a portrait session is spent walking and talking; the frames that work tend to arrive once somebody has stopped thinking about the camera.</p>
<h3>From the same session</h3>
<figure><img src="https://michaelseeds.cdn.prv-modulify.website/projects/portrait4.webp" alt="Woman sitting on a wooden bench in a city square at golden hour" loading="lazy" /><figcaption>Golden &middot; Belfast / 2024</figcaption></figure>
<p>Portrait sessions run 45 minutes or an hour and a half, outdoors around Belfast and Northern Ireland, and come back as edited high-resolution files plus web-ready versions in a private gallery.</p>

Late sun through the hedge, and a portrait that took about four minutes to find.

Bloom

<p>Long lens from the touchline, panning with the run. Tournament football gives you about one second of warning, so most of the work is reading which way the game is about to tilt and being on the right side of it already.</p>
<h3>Same tournament</h3>
<figure><img src="https://michaelseeds.cdn.prv-modulify.website/projects/sports4.webp" alt="Two players celebrating with the trophy after the final" loading="lazy" /><figcaption>Champions &middot; Northern Ireland / 2026</figcaption></figure>
<figure><img src="https://michaelseeds.cdn.prv-modulify.website/projects/sports3.webp" alt="Goalkeeper balancing the cup on his head after the final" loading="lazy" /><figcaption>Silverware &middot; Northern Ireland / 2026</figcaption></figure>
<p>Match, tournament and club coverage starts from GBP 250. Fast highlight delivery for press and social can be arranged in advance.</p>

Through on goal at the Causeway Coast, with the pitch emptied out behind him.

Breakaway

<p>The venue had already given me the frame: an arch, a colour worth using, and a single overhead light. Everything after that was asking two people to stand still for about fifteen seconds.</p>
<h3>More from the day</h3>
<figure><img src="https://michaelseeds.cdn.prv-modulify.website/projects/wedding6.webp" alt="Couple outside a lit stone mill reflected in the water at dusk" loading="lazy" /><figcaption>Dusk &middot; County Down / 2025</figcaption></figure>
<figure><img src="https://michaelseeds.cdn.prv-modulify.website/projects/wedding2.webp" alt="Bride and groom under festoon lighting in a stone barn" loading="lazy" /><figcaption>Lantern &middot; County Down / 2025</figcaption></figure>
<p>Coverage is documentary for most of the day, with gentle direction saved for the portraits and the family groups. Travel anywhere in Northern Ireland is included in full-day bookings.</p>

A red door, a stone wall, and one lamp above the arch doing the whole job.

Threshold

<p>Working the edge of the floor at a low shutter speed, close enough to be part of it. A room like this is mostly about staying out of the way and letting the evening do what it was going to do anyway.</p>
<h3>Later the same night</h3>
<figure><img src="https://michaelseeds.cdn.prv-modulify.website/projects/events2.webp" alt="Guests dancing in a crowded hotel ballroom" loading="lazy" /><figcaption>Floor &middot; Belfast / 2025</figcaption></figure>
<p>Conferences, awards nights, launches and private celebrations across Northern Ireland, from GBP 250. Files arrive sized for press, web and social in a private gallery.</p>

Halfway through a set dance, three couples and nobody watching the camera.

Reel

<p>Available light, one window and a lamp behind the shoulder. Personal branding work does not need a studio so much as a room with some character in it and enough time to relax into the chair.</p>
<h3>Related</h3>
<figure><img src="https://michaelseeds.cdn.prv-modulify.website/projects/portrait3.webp" alt="Black and white portrait of a woman leaning against a wall in low sun" loading="lazy" /><figcaption>Backlit &middot; Belfast / 2024</figcaption></figure>
<p>Headshots and personal branding are covered by the same two session lengths as portraits, with the edited set delivered in high resolution and web-ready sizes.</p>

Black velvet against a warm room, lit by what was already there.

Velvet

<p>Belfast weather does half the work if you let it. The veil went up, the frame emptied out on the left, and there was time for two shots before it dropped again. Black and white because the day was already colourless and bright.</p>
<h3>Related frames</h3>
<figure><img src="https://michaelseeds.cdn.prv-modulify.website/projects/wedding5.webp" alt="Bride leaning against the stone columns of a city building" loading="lazy" /><figcaption>Colonnade &middot; Belfast / 2024</figcaption></figure>
<p>City-hall ceremonies, intimate weddings and elopements are covered with a shorter package built around the ceremony and portraits.</p>

A veil caught by the wind on the City Hall steps, and a kiss that ignored it.

Veil

<p>Held wide on purpose. The hat and the branding and the shape of the links say more about where this is than a tight portrait would, and the walk up the last is the only moment of the round that belongs to the crowd as much as the player.</p>
<h3>More sport</h3>
<figure><img src="https://michaelseeds.cdn.prv-modulify.website/projects/sports2.webp" alt="Footballer driving forward with the ball during a tournament match" loading="lazy" /><figcaption>Breakaway &middot; Causeway Coast / 2025</figcaption></figure>
<p>Golf, running, cycling, tournaments and club fixtures across Northern Ireland. Quotes depend on length, access and how quickly the files are needed.</p>

An acknowledgement to the grandstand on the closing hole at Royal Portrush.

The Open

<p>They wanted the pictures made where they actually spend their time, so we did it in the shed at feeding. Wide lens, dead centre, symmetry from the rails and the roof lights. It is a better portrait of the two of them than a park would have given.</p>
<h3>Related</h3>
<figure><img src="https://michaelseeds.cdn.prv-modulify.website/projects/portrait1.webp" alt="Portrait of a woman in a red dress backlit by evening sun" loading="lazy" /><figcaption>Bloom &middot; Belfast / 2025</figcaption></figure>
<p>Couples and engagement sessions can be shot anywhere that means something to you, at home, on the farm, or somewhere along the coast.</p>

An engagement session that stayed on the farm, cattle and all.

Byre

<p>One of the few directed frames of the day. The fire was the only warm light in the room, so the pair of them went beside it and the rest of the picture was left to fall away into the stone.</p>
<h3>More from the day</h3>
<figure><img src="https://michaelseeds.cdn.prv-modulify.website/projects/wedding3.webp" alt="Black and white photograph of a couple walking hand in hand through a barn" loading="lazy" /><figcaption>Together &middot; County Down / 2025</figcaption></figure>
<figure><img src="https://michaelseeds.cdn.prv-modulify.website/projects/wedding2.webp" alt="Bride and groom under festoon lighting in a stone barn" loading="lazy" /><figcaption>Lantern &middot; County Down / 2025</figcaption></figure>
<p>Prints can be ordered directly from the gallery once it is delivered, and the full set stays available for reprints afterwards.</p>

Stove lit, stone wall behind, and a dress given the whole floor.

Hearth

<p>Late, loud and worth photographing properly rather than with a flash pointed at the ceiling. The trick in a room this full is to find the one gap in the crowd and hold it until the dance turns back into it.</p>
<h3>Earlier the same night</h3>
<figure><img src="https://michaelseeds.cdn.prv-modulify.website/projects/events1.webp" alt="Three couples mid set dance at a formal evening event" loading="lazy" /><figcaption>Reel &middot; Belfast / 2025</figcaption></figure>
<p>Event coverage follows the running order and takes in the guests, the room, the speakers and any sponsor branding that needs to be in the set.</p>

The whole room up at once, somewhere past eleven.

Floor

<p>Presentations are usually a scrum, and the only way through is to pick one player and stay with them. He put the trophy on his head, looked straight down the lens for about a second and a half, and that was the picture.</p>
<h3>Same night</h3>
<figure><img src="https://michaelseeds.cdn.prv-modulify.website/projects/sports4.webp" alt="Two players running with the trophy and medals after the final" loading="lazy" /><figcaption>Champions &middot; Northern Ireland / 2026</figcaption></figure>
<p>Athlete portraits and content sessions can be booked alongside match coverage for clubs and sponsors.</p>

The cup balanced where a medal should be, minutes after the whistle.

Silverware

<p>Shot into the sun with the exposure held for the face, which is what gives the background its whiteness. No reflector, no fill, just a wall to lean on and the right side of the street at the right hour.</p>
<h3>From the same session</h3>
<figure><img src="https://michaelseeds.cdn.prv-modulify.website/projects/portrait4.webp" alt="Woman sitting on a wooden bench in a city square at golden hour" loading="lazy" /><figcaption>Golden &middot; Belfast / 2024</figcaption></figure>
<p>Individual portraits work best in the hour before sunset. Sessions are booked around the light rather than the diary where possible.</p>

Rim light through loose hair, and everything else allowed to go pale.

Backlit

<p>Made in a gap that was not part of anybody's plan. The columns give the frame its rhythm and the shade under them is soft enough that nothing had to be added. Most of the best portraits of a wedding day happen in these gaps.</p>
<h3>Related frames</h3>
<figure><img src="https://michaelseeds.cdn.prv-modulify.website/projects/wedding7.webp" alt="Black and white photograph of a couple kissing as the veil lifts in the wind" loading="lazy" /><figcaption>Veil &middot; Belfast / 2024</figcaption></figure>
<p>Half-day coverage takes in the ceremony and the key parts of the celebration, and suits city weddings where the day is tighter.</p>

A bride against the stonework, waiting for the cars to sort themselves out.

Colonnade

<p>Shot low and close as they came off the podium. Celebration frames are worth staying for long after the light has gone, because this is the picture the club and the sponsors actually use.</p>
<h3>Same night</h3>
<figure><img src="https://michaelseeds.cdn.prv-modulify.website/projects/sports3.webp" alt="Goalkeeper balancing the cup on his head after the final" loading="lazy" /><figcaption>Silverware &middot; Northern Ireland / 2026</figcaption></figure>
<figure><img src="https://michaelseeds.cdn.prv-modulify.website/projects/sports2.webp" alt="Footballer driving forward with the ball during a tournament match" loading="lazy" /><figcaption>Breakaway &middot; Causeway Coast / 2025</figcaption></figure>
<p>Highlights can be turned around the same night when that is agreed in advance, with the full edit following in the private gallery.</p>

Medals on, cup out in front, the second after it was handed over.

Champions

<p>Belfast at the end of a summer day gives you long shadows and warm stone, and very little else is needed. The bench sets the line, the shopfront behind goes to nothing, and the whole thing took two minutes.</p>
<h3>From the same session</h3>
<figure><img src="https://michaelseeds.cdn.prv-modulify.website/projects/portrait3.webp" alt="Black and white portrait of a woman leaning against a wall in low sun" loading="lazy" /><figcaption>Backlit &middot; Belfast / 2024</figcaption></figure>
<p>Urban sessions run around the Cathedral Quarter and the city centre. Coast and forest locations are just as easy to arrange.</p>

Low sun down a city street, and a bench that happened to be in the right place.

Golden

<p>The room was already dressed better than anything I could have set up, so the job was to place two people under the one hanging light and step back far enough to keep the whole gable in.</p>
<h3>More from the day</h3>
<figure><img src="https://michaelseeds.cdn.prv-modulify.website/projects/wedding4.webp" alt="Couple beside a lit wood-burning stove in a stone-walled room" loading="lazy" /><figcaption>Hearth &middot; County Down / 2025</figcaption></figure>
<figure><img src="https://michaelseeds.cdn.prv-modulify.website/projects/wedding1.webp" alt="Bride and groom standing in a red arched doorway of a stone mill at night" loading="lazy" /><figcaption>Threshold &middot; County Down / 2025</figcaption></figure>
<p>Barn and country-house venues across County Down and County Antrim make up most of the diary, though the calendar is open to anywhere in Northern Ireland.</p>

Festoon lights, a stone gable, and a bouquet doing all the colour.

Lantern

<p>This is the documentary half of the day in one frame. They were talking to each other, not to me, and the wall lights behind them did the rest. Nothing here was asked for.</p>
<h3>More from the day</h3>
<figure><img src="https://michaelseeds.cdn.prv-modulify.website/projects/wedding2.webp" alt="Bride and groom under festoon lighting in a stone barn" loading="lazy" /><figcaption>Lantern &middot; County Down / 2025</figcaption></figure>
<figure><img src="https://michaelseeds.cdn.prv-modulify.website/projects/wedding6.webp" alt="Couple outside a lit stone mill reflected in the water at dusk" loading="lazy" /><figcaption>Dusk &middot; County Down / 2025</figcaption></figure>
<p>The aim across a full day is to leave you with the day as it actually felt, rather than a set of arrangements, with enough formal portraits to keep everyone happy.</p>

Walking back in from the portraits, no direction given.