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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! 经过这么多摄影工作,总结了今年最疯狂的一个工作,就是这队新人的婚纱照。没有正式处理这些照片因为对方也是摄影师。对颜色有一定的执着,想要调出他最喜欢的颜色。今天终算开来选了些照片来处理。
每个摄影师都有他们自己的特色,而我就是喜欢自然的色调。不管我再怎样加重调色方式,我还是离不开自然的颜色。或许是因为我最喜欢风景摄影吧,往往是自然的颜色最好看,最耐看。可能也是因为我爱到大自然的环境影响的,喜欢到有很多传统的地方走走,留下一些些道地的故事。 有的时候,工作上会有些冲突。可能是性格的问题,可是还是接受意见。很多时候接受别人的意见,可以促使彼此进步。每个人都会有不同的想法,有的时候对某些想法提出意见,并不代表反对,而是想要将效果提升到最好。每个人都互补长短,就可以发挥最好的效果。 I remembered, this is my second church ceremony shooting. This is more proper and there are some restriction compared to the first ceremony that I shoot years back. It's still very new to me, I felt so nervous until I couldn't sleep well in the night. Once I closed my eye, I got tons of angles, tons of imagination in my mind, thinking what are the photos that I MUST capture.
Special thanks to Sam Wong & Tee for helping in this assignments, without them the montage would not have the fluent story line and good photos. A deep memory will be writing into my mind, because I felt part of the families(I am not sure whether they think the same way). This is what I felt for every wedding shooting. Treated myself a good meal after the dinner shooting is over, is the toughest shooting leaded by me myself. So many things to consider, is not easy job. However, I will still try to breakthrough my limits, I believes there is no limits for a human. 回想起,还记得之前是有拍过教堂的婚礼,大概是一年前的念头。但是在比较大还有很教堂感觉的,还是第一次。这次婚摄,很有第一次婚摄的感觉。前一晚几乎是无法入眠的。因为每次把眼睛关上,就会有很多很多的画面,很多很多的角度,心跳还加速呢! 很感谢朋友Sam Wong和Tee的协助。没有他们就无法完成这场婚礼。自己很喜欢当中的照片。已经在我心中留下深刻的印象。感觉我跟他们就是一家人。虽然新郎Fransies是我的朋友,可能是我的习惯,经常拍摄婚礼时会跟他们,和他们的家人拉近关系。 当然,这么辛苦了就要慰劳自己,去吃大餐咯!!! 接下来的目标就是要突破自己了! I believe is my fate, my high school is in Ipoh, I have lot of friends in Ipoh, I travel to Ipoh for wedding assignments for many times. This time, my friend asked me, "why do you come to Ipoh again?" Am I visiting Ipoh too often?
Back to the photo, is a tiring shooting both groom and bride side by alone, but the satisfactory level is high. Been racing with time for quite some time, but this time is one of the toughest race with time. I only have one or two minute spare time, every shoot is very important, I can't afford to make a single mistake. Awesome couple, Fransies and Jessie, been very patient during the wedding ceremony, smiles on the face even in the "smokie"(Smoke from Joss Stick). 我喜欢在拍摄婚礼时,尽量跟新人和他们的家人打成一片。促使我,每次在修图时,都很容易被感触,不知道是我容易被感动,还是人本性的关系。我记得我第一次要做我的portfolio时,我看着以前的照片,加上音乐。我还真的被感动,可能我是真的很容易被感动的一个人。看着这些照片,看到的不是我一路心酸的路程,而是一幕幕,开心的画面。我很开心可以帮他们拍摄。
Candid, it is always human most beautiful emotion. Something I will never forget during my wedding assignment. Oh wait, I want to rephrase, is also some moments photos that I would like to capture during our daily life.
Been shooting wedding for two years at least, rarely see couple put in a lot effort in making their wedding wonderful and memorable. Used to heard couple saying "FINALLY OVER!!"
I admit it is very tiring day. Lovely couple have two wedding receptions. I could see their tired face after the first wedding reception that is held right after their long wedding ceremony. However, I felt they enjoy a lot during the second wedding reception. They have lots of fun with the bride's maid and the best man. Happy ever after, J&J Wedding !! Is it a moon? or a sun? Been non-stop travelling for one week between Perak and Selangor, partly to attend my friend wedding and to complete my wedding assignment held in Teluk Intan. I believe i have travelled more than 1000km for this week. In a nice Sunday, I thought I could have a good rest in home and start to process my wedding assignment. I got a call from friend, we have planned to go shooting for quite some decade. In fact, we have planned to visit this place 2 months ago, was an unfortunate that I was hit by a car. We have cancelled the trip instead. After 2 months, we finally visited this place. This is an amazing place named Sekinchan, is about 2 hours drive from Kuala Lumpur. It has fishing village and paddy. Is always crowded during weekend and public holidays. The most attractive would be the seafood, because they are not charged high.
HAHA, That is me, I got a new sceptical. The main reason why i like to visit this place again and again. Is the paddy field. No matter how strong is the sun, you will still get winds, relaxing wind. And the atmosphere here, is so calm, and relaxing. I visit this place where is my pre wedding spot. The first picture, it is a Sun, have you guessed it correctly?
I have given myself a refreshment break last week, I chilled out with friends at a place with my wonderful memories. I would say most of my friends stay here, and they have been so nice. The amazing Ipoh.
Seeing different from my friend from time to time, I tend to learned from them, the spirit and the belief on them. Ng, amazing friend of mine, he started being an unknown person in shoes making industry, because he started working inside his father's business. And then he tried very hard to finished up his shoes designing course. Not long after his course, his father facing fund problem in the business and most of his family member moved to Johor to work in other shoes manufacturing factory. He is lucky because Bonia's shoes manufacturing factory is looking for designer. He always complains that he is doing quality control in the factory. However, he has not given up. Until the factory finally decided to outsource the manufacturing process to other factory. He becomes jobless again. He struggle a lot between continue working in Kuala Lumpur or back to Ipoh to run his own business. And ya, he is running his own business and now is very successful. In these few days, he told me, he always go find successful person and talk to them, learn from their successful story, and the management. I am so impressed, at the time he came to Kuala Lumpur, he was like so innocent and now he has been so successful. Times flies with joys. I need to get back to Kuala Lumpur after few days. Something came into my mind, I need to shoot a wedding at Teluk Intan very soon. I do have the address, but I just cannot trust GPS navigation so much due to my past experience. Therefore I set my client's house location and started my journey to Teluk Intan. I would say this place is another most develop place in Perak. This time, the navigation bring me to the right places. Of course I have to return to Kuala Lumpur next. Along the road, I saw a road sign "Langkap". And my friend Lean just came into my mind. He stays here and he is working in his father's business. I gave him a call, but his is not in Langkap but not far from Langkap. He appointed a coffee shop in Langkap, I travelled about 30 minutes to reach this shop named "Pao Lao". First thing I am surprise, the shop is so crowded! I chosen a table and seat down, one Indian lady came by and ask for order. Here come the second surprise, she was holding a PDA, I was like, WHAT???? Can you imagine, a small village, and a coffee shop? That is how they cope with new era. Finally my friend Lean arrived after 20 minutes. We had a long chat, and we had dinner together. We tell our story to each other. Is also a big change on him, he went to America for working holiday. That changes him a lot. Love his way treating any case. Set you objective, achieve it with variety of solution as long as it is not hurting the others. Learning never end, no matter at which stage you are in, you shouldn't stop learning. Keep trying like the trees in the picture, I believe it has not given up to survive and grow until it really withered. |
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