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Hello friends, how are you?

How are things going?

How is the summer going?

As always, both Erika and I want to

send you all the positive energy and if

you have weddings, let them come out as

best as possible.

At least in Europe we are, well, we

are working as best we can.

The truth is that we see that shadow

of the damn COVID that is already moving

around there.

Who knows if we can finish the whole

season as God commands, but hey, fingers crossed.

Today's video is going to help me explain

a little better about a section, about something

specific that I would like to make clear,

since I think that many of you still

have confused ideas about how we work or

how we develop or how we develop a

couple session, whether it is pre-wedding, wedding

or whatever.

Sorry, I mean pre-wedding or post-wedding

or a session, okay?

Because in recent days or in recent weeks

I have already received several questions, well, from

some of you, in which you tell me,

hey, what happens if the couple asks you

to go to the beach?

Because you already know that I don't like

the beach to photograph it, okay?

Because I don't find it attractive, I mean,

like a forest or like a place that

is apparently super crowded with people, I mean,

a place where they would take postcard photos,

like a place near a cathedral or a

square, the most important square in the city,

that kind of places, right?

I mean, what happens if a couple asks

you that?

And what happens?

Do you always work with hard light?

And if there is no hard light, what

do you do?

Well, in that or in this I would

like to stop in this video, okay?

I would like to make some of the

points clear that I think I have not

done, for example, until now.

First of all, what should I say?

Am I a professional or do I think

I am?

And I always say, the one who pays,

rules.

It is obvious that, I mean, we have

a style, the couple that comes to us

comes looking for, in quotation marks, that.

But there are also couples, for example, in

my city, mainly local weddings, in many cases,

they usually ask us, okay?

In addition to those photos, we would like

to know if you could take us a

more romantic photo.

When a couple is asking me that, I

already know what it means.

I mean, they want the most transgressive side

of us or more crazy, but they also

want a little ...

not to call it classic, because if they

were classic they would not come to us,

you understand me?

But something more, as they call them, normal,

okay?

But do I have to get angry because

a couple comes to me, for example, to

say that?

Well, obviously not.

In addition, I have to be grateful, and

more, in the times that run, that someone

gives me the possibility of being able to

have a job, okay?

That's why, in today's video, I'm going to

show you a couple of examples of two

sessions that we have done in my city,

that did not accompany anything, more or less,

of the style that I like or how

I like to photograph myself.

That's why I think these two examples are

going to help and clarify many ideas or

some wrong ideas you have about us.

Because the first couple I'm going to show

you is a couple who told me, Look,

Víctor, we would like the session to be,

or to be seen in our photos, the

cathedral of the city.

I mean, of my city, Zaragoza, the cathedral

of the pillar.

I mean, for a Zaragozan, this cathedral is

a symbol, right?

I mean, it's the most for some, right?

Therefore, we had to think about that.

Of course, if I was going with the

couple in the afternoon, or at noon, it

would be incompatible, because it is an oversaturated

square of people.

Even in times of COVID, there are usually

people everywhere.

So, what did I propose?

That we do the morning session.

I mean, at 6.30 in the morning.

Yes, gentlemen, at 6.30. Why?

Because that way we made sure that there

were no people around the cathedral.

And we also made sure that we played

with those first lights of the session.

Well, of the day, I mean.

Okay?

The dawn, as is logical, is not going

to give me hard lights.

But I always say the same thing.

Gentlemen, the important thing is not to have

a hard light, but to have an interesting

light.

And that was the mission of all this

that we did in the session.

I mean, in the session, I worked the

best I could, I gave the best of

myself, just to work for the couple, give

them the product they wanted, in the same

square of the cathedral, or in the same

environment, and play with the light, within what

I more or less know, or I can

get the best out of myself.

So that the couple had the best of

me, and at the same time what they

wanted.

I think we had to find a balance,

right?

I mean, I'm not going to say to

someone who hires me for a service, No,

I don't do that, because my name is

Victor Lax, and because ...

No, gentlemen, this goes beyond all that.

In addition, they are local couples that I

am never interested in losing.

I mean, I'm very happy taking pictures of

a wedding in Mallorca, or a wedding anywhere,

or in Marbella, I don't care.

But I don't want to lose those local

weddings.

I want to be that photographer, not excellent

in my city, but an exquisite product.

That is, that it is not easy to

get there, that I have a very good

job, that also travels there.

I mean, but I can't lose that kind

of clientele, because who knows what's going to

happen in the future.

And more with the times of COVID, we

can't think that we're going to be all

our lives doing destination weddings, because anything can

happen as it has happened, and we're getting

older.

I don't want to get too long with

all this, but I thought it was more

than necessary to talk to you first about

this session.

That's why I reconducted everything a bit.

I mean, like a hairdresser, like a maître,

like a chef, like a wedding planner, they

pick up for their home and try to

show their boyfriends what is best for that

day.

Photographers are the same, gentlemen, let's not be

stupid.

We don't always have to say, yes, yes,

yes, okay, yes, we take pictures in the

Plaza del Pilar, right.

But I think it would be best if

we did it early in the morning.

Damn, early in the morning, Víctor, please trust

me.

It's better if we get up early, the

square will be completely empty, we will work

like hell, and in short, we're going to

do a pretty good job.

What did the couple say?

Yes, and that's where we went to do

this session that I've been showing you, for

example, until now.

Do you think there are no photos, besides

the ones I've shown you, but I want

to show you again like this one, which

I really find interesting, or even this one,

I also like it a lot.

Do you think they don't also have more

romantic photos like this one?

As they say, or more normal, as they

say, well, I try to make it a

fucking great cocktail so that the couple ends

up happy, and so do I.

So I have the photos that I want

to show, and they also have their photos,

not only mine, which I like, I mean,

but also theirs, or that they have asked

for, or that they will later print to

give away on the day, for example, of

their wedding.

The second couple I want to talk about

asked me for something similar.

They didn't ask me for photos in the

city, but they asked me to take photos

in a park next to the city.

And it's a park that means a lot

to them because they've been there, when they

were dating, well, when they started dating, they

were constantly going there.

So they asked me for that, they wanted

to take photos in the water park.

That's what it's called, the water park, okay?

How am I going to tell them no?

If, on top of that, they get married

in my city on a Friday, I was

able to charge what I wanted to charge,

they were delighted to have me, I, that

they give me work, if they ask me

for photos there, gentlemen, nothing happens.

I always say the same thing, a wedding

season is like a football game.

There are times when it's a draw, the

game is a draw, but there are times

when we have games full of glory, which

are the final of the Champions League, and

those games are the ones that are going

to catapult us to the top and beyond.

But I always say, if we take photos

of 30 weddings, from 25 to 30, not

all weddings are to launch rockets.

There are weddings that are beautiful, but they

have not reached what we wanted, for whatever

reason, for the aesthetics, for the place, for

whatever reason.

But it's work, and more now than ever.

That work, believe me, it's fucking great, because

work brings money, and work brings more couples,

and we can continue working in the future.

That's what it's about, you understand me?

I don't like the rings to the ground

if a couple tells me, let's go to

a forest or let's go to the water

park to take pre-wedding photos.

What the hell, if he's paying me, how

am I going to tell him no?

Then a girl or a couple will come

and take me to the Red Wall, and

then...

it will be a mess, do you understand

where I'm going or not?

Which photos will I show more, or which

ones will I enhance more?

The ones on the Red Wall, of course.

Which photos will I enhance less?

The others, but does that mean I'm not

going to do them?

Well, obviously not.

Also, in this session, which I want to

show you, we started, I mean, worse than

impossible, I mean, not worse than impossible for

La Parja, but my city always does that.

At the time we started that pre-wedding,

there were clouds.

I mean, to top it all off, but

well, despite the fact that there were clouds,

what was my mission?

To understand how the light worked, and I

was working.

There were times when I wasn't as creative

as this image can be, but there were

times when, even though the light didn't accompany

me, I was playing with my creative resources,

like body language, I mean, playing with hands,

playing with elements of the couple, I mean,

always picking up for home.

Do you think I didn't shoot a normal

photo or a romantic photo for the couple?

Well, obviously I shot it, and not just

one, I'm almost sure there were two.

But when the sun came out, because after

the clouds the sun came out, what do

you think I did?

Picking up for myself, thinking about what I

am, where I'm better at, and picking up

for home, I mean, thinking a little about

what photos I want to take and how

to get ahead with that.

And that's how I got ahead.

Do you understand me or not?

And what happened?

Nothing.

I mean, there will be another couple that

I won't be able to enjoy more, but

I will take more photos, or I will

take the photographer I have inside, because I

will have more time and more possibilities, because

I will be in the environment that is

most comfortable for me.

But as I always tell you, you have

to be professional, and the first thing is

the couple.

Always keeping the distances and always telling them

when one is better at work, but the

one who pays is in charge.

Do you understand all this?

I think I needed to tell you this

because I thought it was necessary.

Because many of you think that I get

a red carpet, the boyfriends prepare a billboard

like this, they put it on the table,

and they tell me, for you, Víctor, do

whatever you want.

No.

I mean, not to argue, but to discuss

things with them, to convince them.

Sometimes you can, sometimes you can't.

I mean, I have to hit the same

stone as all of you.

Bastards!

Let's see if you realize it once and

for all.

But what does a magician do?

Without comparing me with that, which seems a

bit egocentric.

Teach only his tricks.

I mean, his magic, but he doesn't teach

what he doesn't want to teach.

The same goes for a photographer.

Let's not be so rigid, bastards.

Do you understand?

Well, I think I've explained myself enough with

this, because I'm already starting with the insults,

so it's better to stop.

But this, I mean, I was thinking about

this, so that you could all see it

a bit, and so that you could understand

a little more, that we have to fight

in all places, but always doing our best,

and always, lastly, and I'll stop with this,

whether it's a cloudy day, or at dawn,

or whenever, if there's no hard light, there's

light.

And if there's light, the light goes from

one point to another, so we have to

understand that, and we have to work on

it to create an interesting light, which, after

all, is the only thing we have to

do.

Ok, I won't talk anymore.

I hope you liked it.

Until next time, and the next video, get

ready, it's going to be good, because Flash

is coming.

Until next time!

Ah, sorry, Flash at a party.

Until next time!