Author: Guangzhou Mei Wei Time-Huaying Jun Xiao
Most people don't have a clear definition of wedding photography. In fact, wedding photography is a branch of humanistic photography in a broad sense. The so-called humanistic photography is the social significance behind the subject expressed by photographers through equipment and technology, and it is the photographer's thought and thinking. The "humanities films" we usually shoot do belong to the category of humanities, but we can't say that they express the humanities exactly the same. At best, they are more or less subjective photos of personal events, because we really seldom spend too much time researching, examining and observing the "humanities" theme we shoot before shooting. Humanism is a wide-ranging concept, which involves many disciplines, observations and investigations to fully express its essence. However, wedding photography is just a documentary about local customs and happy events, which records all the short-lived events, emotional expressions of characters, wedding customs and ceremonies. Strictly speaking, it is a branch of humanistic photography.
The essence of post-wedding photography is to pay attention to the wedding ceremony of the couple. It should reflect the essential characteristics of both husband and wife, including the performance of happiness and joy of both husband and wife, the expectation of a new life journey, the blessings of family and relatives, marriage customs and so on. Wedding follow-up photography belongs to documentary photography, which pursues truth. Whether the wedding photographer interferes with the subject by posing or simply records, as long as the picture can convey the information to be conveyed, the photo itself is the follow-up photography of the wedding. Some people say that photographers should be higher than the subject, shoot with heart and try to change the subject's mentality. Whether this sentence is considered or not, many photographers who follow the wedding photography service do so. For example, some excellent works taken by our beautiful time photography, because the newcomers are not professional models and have no relatively mature expressive force, it is difficult to show their happy feelings. I've shot it many times and I'm not satisfied. Finally, the photographer and the couple said, "Think back to how you felt when you first fell in love." The couple smiled and looked at each other with sincere and enthusiastic eyes.
How to evaluate the service quality of wedding photography? Because wedding photography is a branch of humanistic photography, the first condition is to truly and comprehensively show the ceremony environment in the process of wedding ceremony, followed by the happiness and joy of the couple at the ceremony, as well as the expectations and interaction of relatives and friends. Finally, the use of aesthetic and romantic shooting techniques, the combination of character events and the environment, to form a picture, so that the priorities are clear, fully reflecting the joy, love, emotion, gratitude and so on generated by the interaction of new people in the ceremony. However, with the improvement of the quality of wedding photos by newcomers, the follow-up of weddings now is mainly based on lighting skills, photo composition, post-processing of pictures and ceremony recording, which is more aesthetic, story-telling and artistic.