Hi, everyone. Hope this blog post finds all of you well. I’d like to take this chance to Say a very big thank you for the entries for our 1st year Birthday “most romantic proposal contest” and also all the wonderful couples i have shot over the last couple of months. Its been really busy, so pardon me if i havent had much time to update my blog. But i assure you, that within the next few months, there will be some changes, not just to our blog and website updates, new packages, We are also expecting something BIG and NEW to happen. So do stay tune for it yeah?
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OK, So for my actual Blog Post. “What is Chris Really About?”
For the longest time, ( and i mean years ), I’ve always asked myself what is it about my work and photography that is unique?
So i hope that this will not come to you as a shock because i am not exactly the following.
1: To say i am a photojournalist…. well, not exactly, i mean i do pose some photos and i do pose the formals and stuff.
2: Am i a grandeur glamour photographer? Well, sometimes maybe.
3: Am i a traditionalist photographer? Definately not the kind that needs you to pose for every single shot.
So what am i?
I’ve been looking at my work from the past till now so much, and realise somewhat i am more a portraits person. However, i am a portraits photographer that doesn’t pose people as much. hmmm, must sound pretty contradicting doesn’t it?
So what am i? I guess, in a way you could call me a Portrait Journalist. Unlike most photographers who are amazing and versatile with wide angles and stuff, i find a huge preferance more to moving in close, to capture individual moments od individual people. To capture people as portraits. Thats what i am and that is what i do. It is my niche because That is my craft and That is my ART.
So will all my photos look the way it really is without all the processing and editing?
Honestly, i’ll say 10% will, 40% post processed and the remaining 50% is up to my clients.
“The creativity of the photographs are a huge reflection of how the wedding unfolds”
So does this mean that “Oh, so if my wedding is a simple one, means that i can’t get creative photos?” The answer is, “Definately NO”. You can still get creative images.
“Why?”
Because, having shot and been to some hundred assignments or so, we’ve tuned ourselves to these moments. I mean to say, while maybe some photographers are spending a deal of a time on the formals (posed and group images), they are missing the moments all around them, things that you can never pose people for. They really are doing a great job, but isn’t the wedding spent on creating a big memory to mark a milestone in our lives? and what better what to do it then to have these memories preserved on film?
When i started some 5 years back, the cake, if there was one or even the total cost of the flowers and decorations got more then i got. But then when i sit back and ask myself why? i get puzzled, cos here we are preserving all these memories that will hopefully be looked at some 20-30 years down the road. When the cake is gone, and gown has been worn out by the many other brides wearing the same thing from the same shop. So, when clients come to me without photography and memory preservation being on the top of their minds, these really aren’t my clients.
So i’ll end this post with some images to share. Someefrom recent weddings some past and some portraits as well.
God bless,
Chris Lim
Coffeestains Photography 