Some Questions To A Wedding Photographer That I Asked: Beneficial For Aspiring Wedding Photographers

Some words about photography:

The field photography is in itself a wide subject, and when you think about it you should not reduce it to mere a man holding a camera and clicking endlessly whatever subjects he finds. To excel in it one requires the patience and hard work that perhaps not many holds. And there are different perspectives with which people see this field.

If reading news in a newspaper that a photographer has earned millions for a single photograph that he clicked during his wild trip, and that’s why you want to come into this field then we want to say please don’t even try. You would vanish within some weeks doing something else when you come to know that this field’s weight is more than the dead-lift that you do.

And all types of photographies are different and require approach according to that. We are talking about wild photography, nature, wedding, portrait and other experimentals. And whenever a photographer chooses his/her subject of field they choose what they like in which they want to explore realms of their own inner dimensions, and one should always do like that rather than seeing others what they are clicking in.

Although every photographer goes through a little bit pain and struggle, and once in a lifetime perhaps they think about quitting this field but something they have in them that makes them hold on to it, and that’s why they become successful and gradually great and with time inspiring that lead many others to choose this field of magic reality.

A personal talk with a wedding photographer:

Though photography is not my field but in my friend’s wedding, I got the opportunity to talk to a wedding photographer who had come there for clicking my friend’s wedding. She was sitting idle because baraat got late, and I was already reached earlier at the wedding venue waiting for my friend’s baraat.

Her name was Neha. Though at first when I saw her, it was a little electric astonishment for me to see a woman wedding photographer. Because it is mostly male-dominated industry in India, and even parents don’t allow their girls to go into this field because you don’t know when your nights and mornings are coming and going.

While I went for a talk to her she was clicking a bird and I interrupted her saying "Hello" and in reply, she gently smiled rather than giving a smirk. Though I was impressed with the way she dressed herself totally looking like a real photographer. And we started our banter eating some Golgappas, an Indian snack.

So here are our banter, and her experience of doing wedding photography and my some questions:

So how you came into wedding photography?

My first question was this which perhaps she was not interested to answer but she did. She told that she didn’t want to while wanted to go into wildlife photography and still but because of some financial problems she couldn’t. Though she said she liked wedding photography, which is lucrative also when you are into this field for 5 years. But she also said it was not easy for her in the starting.

How did you start clicking?

She said when she first started clicking she was taking pictures of birds here and there that came to her home in hot summer, for whom she had some pots filled with water. When they dipped their beak into the pots and sometimes took a dip into them, she liked it so much, and took pictures of them by her mobile and uploading them on Instagram for which she got many likes.

She said, "Wedding photography happened accidentally and in my cousin’s wedding when booked photographers boycott the wedding making fallacious reasons. So all my relatives, friends and siblings urged me to take the responsibility for the wedding’s photography. And they just didn’t say it out of love while they are all there on my Instagram praising me and the clicks.

Hence it was the first time that I held a real camera for wedding photography. And the result was wildly impressive. My cousin liked it."

Why couldn’t go into the wild?

The first reason she told that her parents didn’t allow it, and sometimes you had to spend endless nights and mornings for a perfect shot which was more than the wedding photography. At least one can counts the days and nights while doing the wedding photography. Though it also is not easy. It has its own stakes.

A wedding photographer has to go through a lot of hell too especially during a pre-wedding shoot and when you have to shoot candid, waiting for emotions to erupt of bride and groom, and others. The pain is not this, while at the time when you are telling bride and groom how to give pose, which perhaps sometimes they hardly understand and you photographer have to compromise.

I couldn’t ask her more because baraat had come but she told me that she was one of the best wedding photographers in Ahmadabad, and she gave me her number too, not for a date while she said to me "when you are going to marry, give me a call.

So the talk was good, she was too and we danced too in my friend’s baraat. And one thing I also want to tell you that when my wedding time came, I called her but not for the wedding shoot, but for the marriage proposal. I proposed her, and the good thing is that she accepted.

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