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Dermot
Sullivan
🇮🇪 Ireland
Tralee (Ireland)
With us
2 years
Studio Name
Photography By Dermot Sullivan
Hello Brides and Grooms!
I am based in County Cork in Ireland and I live next to the Atlantic Ocean. I photograph weddings in Cork and Kerry and I love to use the natural landscape and seascapes in my photographs.
I have been photographing weddings for over 10 years and I know all the best beach and forest locations. I also love to use off camera flash to make unique creative photographs for my couples.
My main aim on a wedding day is for my couple to have a relaxed day with lots of fun and to have a set of beautiful photographs to treasure, that will form the beginning of a historical document for their family.
Winning photos
This photograph was taken in the break between dinner and the first dance. I scouted out the location in the grounds of The Maryborough Hotel in Cork, Ireland and I felt that the two trees would make a good frame for my couple. I had one flash behind them and another one at a lower power in front. after a few test shots, I got the levels right and the photograph was done.
94th CollectionThis photograph was taken on a headland overlooking the sea at Inchydoney, in West Cork, Ireland. The couple are pretty sporty and the groom + his party had already been for a swim in the Atlantic earlier that day. We had done some more static shots and then I asked the groom if he could lift his bride up for a more dramatic shot. I went low to capture her against the sky and I added some fill in flash at +3 power so that I could get some detail in the sky.
92nd CollectionThis photograph was taken at The Fota Island Resort in Co. Cork Ireland, I love when you have a big wedding party and you can create contrast with the clothing colours with a boy - girl - boy - girl lineup. I found the location with the trees behind the couple which formed a good background, and as I was slightly downhill from them I was able to get a low angle which makes them more powerful in the frame. I directed them to look inwards to the centre while they were walking towards me and luckily, the shot came together.
91st CollectionThis photograph was taken in the morning when Joe and Paul were getting ready for their wedding ceremony at Castlemartyr Resort in Co. Cork, Ireland. It may look like a studio shot, but it's a really simple set up, just using the light coming through the net curtain of the bedroom window. I wanted to emphasise that it was a same sex wedding by using the rings and the cuffs and cufflinks on both their shirtsleeves.
89th CollectionThis photograph was taken in March 2022, in Kinsale, Co.Cork, Ireland. The mast is situated directly opposite Actons Hotel, where the reception was being held. I had photographed couples at the mast before, but luckily, the Christmas lights were still in place so it added an extra element to the photo.
88th CollectionI spotted the organ loft during the ceremony and thought that it would be a great background for a couple shot. The bride and groom were up for a creative photograph, so I positioned a remote flash behind them and got the brides younger brother to flick the veil and then quickly duck down, It took a couple of tries, but we got the photo!
85th Collection