Xsightn Photography is a Nigeria based fashion, wedding and lifestyle photography outfit.
We love to think our approach to wedding photography is both fresh and urban. We pride ourselves of being one of the top wedding photographers in Nigeria, shooting high-end weddings for Nigerian couples based outside Nigeria. In 2010 we were privileged to shoot weddings for Nigerian brides based in the USA, UK, South Africa, Canada and Cameroon .
While I started off shooting weddings, I have discovered a brand new love for fashion photography.
"I love the fact that i am a wedding photographer and I feel so incredibly lucky to be able to capture and document, the memories, love, look and the happiness in my work"
"I approach my wedding photography in a way that leads to an intimate and artful expression resulting in images that reflect your unique personality, capturing the natural mood of the day that will be cherished in your family for years to come."
Kayode(the lead photographer) started his career in IT before training under some of the world's best known photographers. Throughout his photography career, Xsightn has developed a unique style of creating timeless imagery. He draws inspiration for everything around him, from movies and television, to literary figures and, of course, journalism. Email us at bookings@xsightn.com or Call +2348097899454 or +2348023702640
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I tend to shoot lots of weddings but am getting lazy this days trying to find the time to blog more. Here are some of my favorite pictures from the Nigerian wedding of Tunde and Tara. Tara and I actually met via the internet and have since become quite good friends, I have already been booked by her this year to shoot the wedding of her siblings later in the year, with the traditional introduction being the first this April.
Tara has a great eye for good photography and I guess this is why we hit it up quite easily. To Tara and Tunde, thanks guys for counting me worthy of documenting one of the very best days of your lives.
My name is Kayode and I shoot Nigerian weddings all over the world. To book me please send email to kayode@xsightn.com
Here are some wedding pictures from my Oyinda and Andrew collection, I shot this wedding in February and I had a blast. It was a 2 day affair with the traditional wedding taking place a day before the wedding proper. Both days were awesome (fast becoming my best word). Oyinda was an amazing bride who couldn’t stop smiling, every photographer’s dream. Andrew was such a gentleman, allowing me the freedom to do as I pleased on the day, together, they both made an amazing pair and it was sure a huge honour to have been selected to shooting this beautiful Nigerian wedding. It also so happens that the band they hired for the traditional wedding was the same band that played at my wedding about 3 years ago.
I couldn’t possibly post all the wedding pictures from the event, but here’s a number of them that actually made it into the final album, hope you like them and thanks for stopping buy.
The Nigerian wedding of Oyinda and Andrew was one of the first weddings I shot this year. Bride and groom were such fun to work with. Too lazy to upload images from the wedding just yet but here’s a sneak peek. Here’s a small video I made of the gorgeous bride getting ready. Let me know what you think.
If you haven’t seen my other video posts, please check them out here
Over the weekend, i had the pleasure of shooting the wedding of Folakemi and Yemi Adesanya in Lagos, Nigeria, 2 absolutely gorgeous couple. It was a pretty big affair that started as early as 7am, both the engagement and the wedding proper took place on the same day so as a photographer, i really had my hands full. Today i am sharing some images of the bride while she prepared for the engagement, i absolutely loves this pictures. Every single picture in this collection was shot with 100 % available light, no flash , i had 2 massive windows in the room producing the softest most beautiful light you could ever ask for as a wedding photographer. My sincere thanks to Yemmi and Folakemi for such a wonderful experience, thank you so much for making Xsightn a part of your day. Congratulations to Xsightn’s newest couple, wish you guys a happy married life and for those of you ladies that have not booked an Xsightn Wedding for 2011, slots are filling up o, no husband required, book in advance husband will surely arrive before then o (lol) Love you guys and thanks for following my work. Think we are good enough to shoot your wedding ? Do give us a call +2348033051621 or mail kayode@xsightn.com , you could also visit our booking page to send us a mail and we will respond within a few hours. Xsightn is a leading wedding photographer based in Lagos, Nigeria.
What makes a picture a great photograph?
This could be a very tough question to answer, answers will vary from photographer to photographer and ultimately will also be subjective.
Ok, so what makes a great wedding photograph then?
Answer to this will also tend to vary from person to person, While some will say the picture where the bride smiles the most, some will say the picture which truely reflects the couple’s love for each other.
A professional wedding photographer might even go as far as saying a great wedding picture is that picture with the very best exposure, that picture which is composed the best, that picture with the very best lighting.
Don’t get me wrong, all the above points work.
They just aren’t what I consider to be great wedding pictures, good maybe but definitely not great.
I have been shooting Nigerian weddings for quite some time now and I have learnt alot in the time.
What I’ve learnt over the years as a wedding photographer has helped me to define what i consider to be a great wedding picture.
To me, a great wedding picture goes beyound technical perfection of an image, it’s about emotions, it’s about the couple.
A great picture is that which stares emotions in the couple when they go through their wedding album, its that picture that makes them smile, its that picture that makes them laugh, its that picture that makes them cry.
It’s about that picture which gets the couple to send you as a photographer a “thank you note” or call you to thank you in person for doing such a marvelous job.
As wedding photographers, the technical aspects of our photography should be second nature, we shouldn’t go to weddings thinking about what aperture to use, what shutter speed to shoot at, what iso will work best and the likes. We should be more concerned about capturing the moment.
The technical aspects needs to be second nature to us.
I remember reading somewhere that Joe Buissink, one of the greatest wedding photographers living today actually said he has a backup camera in full automatic mode, ready for just that moment, when the lighting on a shoot begins to act “funny”.
