A lot of time, what did "moments" mean to you? Something touching? Something non-fake? Something natural? YES, all above!!
In wedding photography, in the past few years, I thought "moments" is my core "elements" to capture during a wedding ceremony and wedding reception. I always think, I just need to capture whatever is happening. No posing, no conducting..... BUT, it is the main mistake I have been doing in the past few years. "We don't wait for moments, WE CREATE MOMENTS!!" A sentence I heard when I am working as a contract photographer at a studio. I face a lot problems in the studio, because I am not a very smart guy. Non-stop making mistake until I almost get no job from the studio. Somehow I felt sorry to the studio because I would have cause them losing jobs due to my mistakes. Yet I am glade because I learned from them, A LOT. Communication, that is what I found most important from the studio. Every shooting, head photographer can always tell almost every thing about the background of the family. Their habits, preference, occupation, any thing !! We need to understand the couple before we start shooting For me, key to success is to build a close relationship with the couple. Unless couple really resist it. I am not good in communicating, but I am working my best everytime. Trying to understand couple and talk to them during the shooting. Advantage is, when couple is too tired and almost no smiles from the face, we need to start making them relax and calm, forget about tiredness. Then the smile will be back Educate the couple. I would say, people nowadays is very good at selfie, but they do not know how to be nice when they are photographed by another person. Make them automatically do the pose for you! It works, because I have an experience, parents always stand very "Straight" and they actually look like stranger in the photo, I told the father to hug the mother, at the first few times they felt very awkward, and I have good photo of them easily after the few times, because they know they look good in which way!! Whenever I ask them for a photograph, they will hug each other. There is a sentence "Learning will Never End", let's learn more thing in the future!! (话语版) “Moments” 是什么意思呢?在英语的意义会比较重要!化作话语,可以解释为“瞬间”,“刹那”,“一刻”,感觉很不实在呢。但是在英语里,特别在婚礼摄影里,却是意义深刻,感动,感触的瞬间! 一直以来,我都以为婚礼摄影,我想扮演一个“狗仔”的角色。只是拍一些“有发生”的状况,却做错了这么多年。 "We don't wait for moments, WE CREATE MOMENTS!!" 以上,是让我觉悟的一句话。但是我接了不少其他摄影楼的工作。但是面对非常多问题,而且也非常压力。因为我不是个很聪明的人,也时常闯祸。导致我接到的工作也是越来越少。有时,我很想跟老板说对不起,因为我直接和间接影响他的生意,他的名声。同时也很想感谢他,在他身上的确学了不少东西。 “沟通”非常重要。与他们工作时,他们几乎可以说出新人的背景,喜好,工作等等。几乎无所不知。其实真的可以帮助我们的摄影过程。当然,在我们了解新人的同时,我们也建立了一个很好的关系。很多时候,新人都累到几乎没有笑容,而这个时候就是靠摄影师的功力了。 “教育”也是一个很重要的过程。我相信大家都是自拍高手,但是面多摄影师的镜头时,新人们也是需要明白一些道理。摄影师不是万能的,不是拿着好的器材就能把你拍到美美的。那当然,我们身为摄影师的责任,就是教育新人如何面对镜头。婚礼摄影时可没有象婚纱摄影那么多时间。 当然,我是有一个这样的经验。很多时候拍摄家长是,他们都会站到很“直”。就好像当兵那样,父母是父母,可是照片里却像陌生人一般。通常这种情况我都会安排父母拥抱,比较有感觉。刚开始几次,他们一定不习惯的,久而久之,当他们看到我拿起相机要拍他们的时候,他们自然就会拥抱,再也没有陌生人的感觉了。对新人也一样,教导他们怎样看起来比较瘦,比较好看,那他们看到镜头,自然就会准备好了。 有一句话“活到老,学到老”,我们一起努力吧! |
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