To be frankly, having your wedding photos taken with nowadays modern, fairly-tale and epic style is kinda cliche. Why? When everyone have a series of fairly-tale wedding picture, how fairly-tale your photographs are? While each couple is getting the same epic sceneries and posting the some postures, then what is the uniqueness of your pictures?
When wedding photography is dominated by the main stream, these wordings are frequently used:
Fairly-tale, Epic, Glorious, Resplendent, Twinkling, Eye-catching, Magnificent .....In fact, how many people are truly need all of these? Effort it? Wouldn't be great if life is just ordinarily? These bunches of beautiful wordings are just a gimmick for people who fantasise their lives. (no offense, just my feeling)
How about taking wedding photos in a old traditional studio?
I have been looking for an old style studio for taking my wedding photos, and eventually, I got this. The Beauty Studio (美姿華攝影室) is located in Aberdeen, the southern part of Hong Kong Island. Its owner Mr. Chan who is still keeping this studio and didn't close the business and put it onto the rental market, he has a unique point of view.
"How much money you can earn in your life? Can you earn it all? I could close this studio and make some rental profits, approximately HKD 20,000 per month, but I didn't." Said Mr. Chan. "I truly love photography and that is the only reason why I'm still running this studio."
"I'm not really eager to gain profits from taking photographs at this age, I just consider happiness as a matter of fact."This long conversation was like an interview of a semi-retired photographer who not only shared his photography footprints in the pass, but also his "moneyless philosophy". It gave me a sense of milk of human kindness.
