Lucy Ratcliff Photography

Lucy Ratcliff is a Dronfield-based wedding specialist who brings a natural, personable approach to wedding photography. Trained with a photography degree and with experience exhibiting work and contributing to local projects, Lucy combines a documentary eye with considered portraiture to create wedding photos that feel honest and lived-in rather than staged. Why choose Lucy as your wedding day photographer? She treats each wedding as a unique story — one worth documenting with sensitivity and warmth. Lucy knows when to fade into the background and quietly record those small, intimate moments, and when to step forward to compose cinematic portraits of you and your partner. Her strength is in blending unobtrusive documentary-style wedding photography with gentle direction for key portraits, giving you a beautiful mix of candid emotion and timeless images. How Lucy works with couples: the experience is relaxed, friendly and flexible. From an initial chat to understand what matters most to you, through the wedding day itself, Lucy aims to put you at ease. She’s equally comfortable capturing quiet, emotional scenes as she is corralling a lively group for a fast, organised family shot — and she’s been known to lend a hand with the little practicalities of the day while still keeping an eye on the camera. That human, down-to-earth attitude helps people relax and behave naturally in front of the lens. Lucy’s background in portrait and social documentary photography informs her wedding work. Her portraits are rooted in real connection, and her documentary practice means she’s alert to the moments that reveal a couple’s true character. Based in Dronfield and serving the Sheffield area, she understands local venues and light, and loves creating professional wedding photos that couples can be proud to display and share. While weddings are Lucy’s primary focus, she also works across portrait and social documentary projects and occasionally photographs maternity sessions. If you’re after a Dronfield wedding photographer who values emotion, authenticity and a relaxed, story-led approach to wedding photography, Lucy would love to hear about your plans and help preserve the day in images that feel true to you.