All language subtitles for Episode 54º Patreon Wedding Experience (part 2)

Well, as you can see, it was a

great wedding.

If I had told you all that, maybe

you would not know all the problems that

we came to have, right?

Remember that we stayed at the point, right?

What did it mean to be selfish for

us, right?

What were the ...

or what were going to be the points

at which we were going to stop and

we were going to give the best of

ourselves at all times, okay?

The first of all is that what we

agreed the day before, the night before, with

a glass of wine, Fran Boutonnet, Erica Viernes

and Victor Lax, the following.

First of all, focus on transition photos.

What does that mean?

That we were going to be all the

time not only photographing moments or great moments

like rings, confetti and all that, but we

were going to focus on capturing moments between

moments.

What happens between great moments.

That was going to be fundamental, right?

And above all, stop photographing a few seconds

before that great moment or a few seconds

after that great moment.

Remember that something fundamental for me and for

Frank and for Erica is that wedding photography

does not exist.

I mean, we were going to photograph what

is understood as wedding photography, but to stop

at other points.

I mean, in guests, in what happened between

the family, in off moments, for example, of

the couple, I mean, in all that set

of images.

I would like to talk to you to

explain a little better what that is about

transition photos and what I would like to

stop for that or I would like to

show you this image and explain to you

how it was done, right?

You see that it appears on one side

just a man and on the other side

a bride and in the center a rose.

That rose was the bouquet of flowers of

the bride.

I don't think it was for money.

So, until I got to capture that image,

it was not a pure coincidence, but before

that photo there were these three.

If you look at these three images that

you are seeing, what happens is that I

am not really contributing anything new because what

I was doing was constantly fluttering, running around

the couple without being clear yet what I

really wanted, for example, to photograph.

Because you have to think, what do I

want to do?

What do I want to photograph?

Because it is not worth running, it is

not worth going around without stopping and without

having a clear idea.

You have to be clear about where we

are going and what the meaning of all

this is.

I mean, at the same time that you

are shooting, think about what happens, why, how,

why does a rose carry?

That was the background of everything.

What sense did it make that I had

to get very close or very far away

and that I placed the bride, for example,

with her little father?

That was not the philosophy or the importance

of all that, but just the opposite, to

focus on that and show the viewer the

special thing of the moment and the meaning

that this was.

Something very important that we also focus on,

on light.

We were going to be working on the

type of light that we like.

We were not going to change because the

wedding was very, very visual or very big

or very surprising, but we were going to

be faithful to our light.

A dramatic, soft, hard light, if it becomes,

okay?

This is very important.

More things.

What is our specialty?

Capture moments, capture emotions.

In other words, we were going to focus

and we were going to spend all our

energy on capturing that type of moment.

I mean, there were moments with their parents,

with friends, with all this.

More points.

We were also going to give our best

and turn the normal into extraordinary.

Get images in anodyne places, as you are

seeing on the left, and get oil in

an amazing way, as you are seeing now.

One of us was going to be super

close, super close at all times, as you

are seeing in this circle, in which the

central circle, as is obvious, are the boyfriends.

The circle that has a red color was

going to be a photographer or sometimes two,

but mainly one.

And in the third circle, what was going

to be is always a photographer or two

at times, in which he was going to

count or show the atmosphere of the event.

One, ensuring, in quotes, and two, taking risks

at all times.

There was another special guest, or another very

special guest, and I'm not talking about Frank,

but I'm talking about the rain.

Gentlemen, it rained at this damn wedding.

I mean, that was for them to grab

us by the balls and cut our fucking

heads off, right?

I mean, he was saying, my God.

We were at the ceremony, at the moment

they were getting married, we were there, and

before it was going to rain, which I

already smelled, because I already saw the sky

as black as hell, I went to talk

to Frank and I told him, it's going

to rain, even if it rains a lot,

I want you to be here in front

of the couple, and I want you to

photograph their faces when it starts to rain.

Remember that the people from Europe who come

to Spain to get married come for the

sun, for the good weather, for the food,

for the party, but they come for the

good weather, above all, because in Belgium, well,

it doesn't have as good a weather as

in Spain, I mean, it doesn't have these

temperatures, right?

So I wanted that, and I told Erika

the same thing, I said, when it starts

to rain, I don't want you to sing,

I don't want you to move, I want

you to photograph everything.

And I, at that moment, I'll go out

a bit, I mean, I'll go to the

third circle to see how the guests start

to live it.

So then, as you can see, Frank captured

this piece of photo, and I went over

there, I mean, I went out and captured

this image, and Erika was super late, it's

my fault, poor Erika ended up totally wet,

but she took this image, which is another

transition photo, which the truth is that, well,

I love it a lot, right?

Something also super important that I want to

show you, right?

I mean, both Erika, Frank and I, I

mean, we drew the following, we were going

to make it clear with our images at

what time of the day those images were

taken, I mean, separate with our photos the

different parts of the day of a wedding,

I mean, we were going to make it

clear which ones were, for example, preparations, which

ones were going to be, for example, ceremony,

portraits, dinner, and finally, the party, right?

Of course, something fundamental is that, of each

of the parts, as I say, it was

super important that we made it clear, that

is, that it was evident, I mean, when

they were taken, such as preparations, as you

are seeing, ceremony, portraits, I have already told

you that the couple did not want portraits,

they did not want poses, which, well, there

is no problem, the couple went a little

bit, well, to change, the second-dress bride,

who changed it, and at that moment, well,

we took the opportunity to take photos, well,

photos, well, with friends, because the boyfriends left

us, they abandoned us, and I told them,

do you want me to take photos of

you when you are changing?

When, for example, James was changing, for example,

from smoking, and the bride was changing her

dress, I thought it could be interesting, I

asked him, and the answer was, once again,

no.

Finally, after dinner, in which we were working

there quite, quite, quite hard, and finally, well,

the party, right?

Something very important also, right?

You see that we have marked this, and

I forget something, very important, the transition photos,

and now I would like to show you

those transition photos, from the beginning to the

end, right?

I mean, for example, how they were preparatory,

as you are seeing now, in which, clearly,

for example, before the story began, that red

sheet, well, that red carpet that was hanging,

I already took care of it, as Erika

and such, you see?

I mean, at the time of the ceremony,

we also try, for example, to do that,

those transition photos, in which either a man

appears, who was the groom's father, or, for

example, the bride appears, but I mean, they

are photos that are not at all evident,

such as these rain photos, or the photo

on the right, which Erika captured, in which

it is simply a reflection, and that this

photo will allow us to publish it sooner

or later.

I'm talking about publishing, because we thought that

that wedding was to be published, that's why,

in addition to working for the couple, we

also work so hard for ourselves, that is

one of the most important things that you

must understand as photographers, we are photographers, we

are artists, consequently, we publish, we show the

work, and that gives us the incentive to

still be better, okay?

We continue to work with the transition photos,

in which, as you are seeing, the bride

finally came out with another dress, in the

photo on the right, and on the left

we have, for example, the boys.

And finally, we have part of the party,

because there was a Spanish party, and in

the photo on the right is the conductor,

because there was an orchestra during the wedding,

both at dinner and later at the party.

After all, I think it was a good

wedding.

In fact, I would like to show you

one of my favorite images, which is this

one, and I show it to you because

it has a very powerful story behind it,

and it was because after 17 hours of

work, I took this image, after 17 hours

of work in which we did not receive

help from the grooms, when it rained, nobody

asked us if we were wet, if we

had worked well, that if the equipment was

...

no, no, no, nobody ever worried about us,

we had a miracle dinner, we suffered the

wedding well, but at 17 hours of work

I captured this image, and it is not

a posado, okay?

This is the way the central patio of

the Sainte-Claire hotel was illuminated, and it

was illuminated like this, trying to copy the

favorite path of James, the groom.

That path is called The Box, and it

is located in New York, and the groom

wanted to simulate that there, and that's why

those crazy lights, right?

Thanks to that photo, and some more, I

got the title of Photographer of the Year

at Fearless Photographers, and that photo was based

on sweat, tears, and a lot of effort,

right?

So please, be selfish with yourselves.

You already know what that means, it doesn't

mean I'm more than you, no, no, it

means, okay, you fuck me, you make my

fucking life impossible, I'm going to work for

you, but also for me, and I'm going

to give my best, but for mere personal

anger, so please don't forget that, to be

selfish, because friends usually work, okay?

And finally, I'm sure you're wondering, well, what

happened to the photographers, and what happened to

the grooms, right?

Well, with the grooms, the following happened, we

finished working, and I told Frank, and I

told Erika, do you have everything done?

And they said, yes.

Well, let's go.

And Frank told me, don't say goodbye to

the grooms, and I said, no, I'm not

saying goodbye to them, if they don't need

us, if they're not going to miss us,

what's the big deal?

I mean, the first wedding in my entire

professional career, in 10 years, that I don't

say goodbye to a couple.

I say, why?

After what they've made us suffer?

I say, fuck them.

That's literally what I thought, right?

Then I was wrong, you'll see.

Well, we didn't go either.

With the photographers, what happened?

It all started very badly, but it was

their first time visiting Mallorca.

In the end, they didn't rent a car

to be able to move around, because they

thought Mallorca was almost like Ibiza, like a

piece of land, and in the end we

had to be the ones who took us

from location to location in our car.

I mean, in a three-seater car, there

were five of us, and five photographers full

of equipment.

I mean, imagine that, right?

Well, it was normal.

They were just getting started.

As you know, a beginner photographer has a

very high ego, and that's what happened in

the end, right?

In the end, everything ended well.

Here we have the photo.

It's a moving photo that was taken by

a guest, because in the end, as I

said, everything ended well, right?

I forgot.

What happened with the grooms?

What happened?

What happened?

Well, we edited all the work perfectly, we

worked well, all the editing, selection, we gave

them a really powerful gallery, and this was

her answer, right?

The truth is that what she came to

tell us, or what she told us in

the email, was that she understood and assumed

that the day we worked, or the day

of the wedding, we didn't have it easy

at all.

Maybe what she came to tell us was

that she was overwhelmed by everything, and maybe

she was a little distant, but it wasn't

her, yes.

What she came to tell us was that

thank you for everything.

And that was the wedding, guys.

That was the wedding I wanted to tell

you.

You see that it is a very curious

and very powerful story, and I would like

that after all this, that you stay with

the lesson that you don't have expectations even

if the wedding is very powerful, because you

never know what's going to happen.

So that's it, guys.

I won't entertain myself anymore.

I hope you liked these two videos of

the wedding of Janika and James, and that

you enjoyed all this, that you laughed, and

that's it.

Until next time, guys.

Be good.

Bye.