Fotograf Emilio Navas

—Sunteți fotogenic?

—Everybody could be depending of the photo.

—Cum ați ajuns în industria fotografiei?

—I like make photos since I was a kid. As I love travel I started to work as travel photographer. With the time I discover that more than the places I am good capturing the people there. I started to make social photography, family and fashion works. Finally I discovered in the wedding field the perfect balance to make my best of all the things learned during years.

—Care sunt cele mai importante componente ale unei fotografii bune, după părerea dvs?

—A lot of things counts but I suppose that the most important is the story behind the photo. Composition and perfect light is needed but the feeling is a must.

—Vă place să călătoriți?

—Of course!! Our studio runs between Hong Kong and Spain but we are lucky to travel to many other incredible places because our job.

—Ce vă place cel mai mult la profesia dvs?

—Meet incredible people in one of the most important day of their life. Capture all the feeling of this moment and keep for the future have some magic.

—Ce vă place cel mai puțin la profesia dvs?

—I love my job in general but as we need to be to manage a lot of things not all are so cool. Finances, marketing and other backoffice tasks could be tedious sometimes.

—Care va fi viitorul fotografiei?

—Wedding photography are changing and improving fast and this is good news. But I think that in other hand always will happen wonderful stories and someone will have the task to tell and capture this stories for the future.

—Ce este special la genul de fotografie în care sunteți specializat?

—As I told before, wedding photography talks about love and happiness. Is the most personal field of photography that I can imagine.

—Cum răspundeți criticilor?

—Usually I am very positive about this. Critiques must be a way to learn, grow up and be better photographer. Everybody wants to listen good things about their jobs and as artist sometimes we are a little bit sensitive with bad critics... :-p

—Există tendințe în fotografia?

—Wedding photography have a huge amount of possibilities. There isn't just a trend. With the years I saw a lot of different tendencies. This changes also depending the country. Vintage style, only back and white pictures, Photojournalist...
I try to have my own style and don't follow to much what other people do. As told before the important is tell the story. Is the only way to make pictures that never will be old fashion in the future.

—Care ar trebui să fie criteriile după care un client să aleagă un fotograf?

—I understand that each one have a budget and this could be a key point to choose one or other photographer but in my opinion this will never be the main point.
Each photographer have different vision so the first point must be choose the style you like after see several kinds.
I think is important too at least have a call or better and interview with the photographer and check if you "connect" with him. The photographer will spend long time with you during your big day and as this is about feelings I think is important have good feeling with the photographer.

—Ce lucruri sunt complet nepermise când fotografiați?

—Everything is allowed!!! This is the funniest thing about wedding photography. This make each photography unique.

—Ce detalii de obicei neobservate de alții pot fi observate de un fotograf?

—First of all we have the experience and the technique needed after make thousand of wedding pictures. We are professional and we have the gear that an amateur will not have. And the most important of all the real wedding photographer as an artist have unique way to watch behind the lens and capture the things happen in his own way.

—Ce influențează valoarea fotografiei? Care sunt elementele ei?

—Feeling, composition, good light, good technique and something interesting to tell.

—Ce persoană poate fi simbolul secolului XXI după părerea dvs?

—Not sure...

—Pe cine doriți să fotografiați?

—In general funny people that love photography.

—Aveți tabuuri profesionale?

—No as far I know.

—Cu cine ați vrea să faceți fotografii?

—With you! :-D

—Ce vă îngrijorează și de ce?

—A lot of injustice in the world. We are a small world with a lot of problems. Is a shame that somethings still happen in the XXI century.

—Care este cel mai impresionant moment din viața dvs?

—Could sound too much sticky but the day that I saw the first time to my wife and I know that she will be the woman of my life.

—Dacă ați fi fost un personaj de desen animat, de carte sau de film, cine v-ar fi plăcut să fiți?

—Wall-e :-p

—Cine vă inspiră în viață și de ce?

—The small things that make life unique. I watch films all the time to grow up my inspiration.

—Cum definiți succesul? Cum îl măsurați?

—Each people need to find the measure... To me, Happiness, healthy and with someone to love and be loved. Of course enough money to live and travel!

—V-ar plăcea să fiți mai degrabă plăcut sau respectat?

—I think both in the same way.

—Care este cea mai mare greșeală pe care ați făcut-o în profesia dvs?

—At the beginning some technicals fails for sure. Long time ago I was too shy to do the things to make the photography that I had in my mind. This is a big mistake, shy can't be a stopper for creativity.

—Când plecați în călătorie, ce luați cu dvs. și de ce?

—My camera, of course!!

—Există vreun lucru pe care vă doriți să nu-l fi cumpărat dintre aparatele pe care le aveți? De ce?

—A lot of times!!
You see a new lens, camera body or light that looks game changer. Run to try and then discover that less is more and the difference are not always in the gear but in the way to use.

—Cum vă pregătiți pentru a face fotografii mai bune?

—Watching a lot of films. Attending at least 3 or 4 workshops of other photographers that I like. The most useful is practice, practice and practice. Lets fly your imagination and try to innovate is a good way to improve and move your photography to the way you want.

—Activitatea cărei persoane v-a influențat cel mai mult în calitate de fotograf?

—Several photographers. I learned more working with colleagues than checking their pictures. Say only one is not fair.

—Care este lucrul pe care vă doriți să-l fi știut când ați început să faceți fotografii?

—How to be less nervous and control the stress in the wedding day. At the beginning is difficult to do! Lucky that this changes fast when you have some experience.

—Ce doriți să exprimați prin fotografiile dvs?

—Tell the story behind the image.

—Ce vă motivează să continuați să faceți fotografii?

—I love my work. Is artistic, give me the possibility to travel and meet great people.

—Părinții dvs. ar fi trebuit să mai mai stricți sau mai puțin stricți?

—I am ok on the way the were. (And they are)

—Dacă v-ați putea întoarce în timp, ce ați face diferit?

—Maybe a lot of small things but the wrong ones made me learn so I think I don't want to change anything.

—Ce credeți despre viața pe alte planete?

—Are you serious? Strange interview... lol
I suppose is possible but I don't think I will see in my life.

—Cine sunt eroii dvs?

—People that fight everyday to make a world better.

—Pentru cine nu aveți respect?

—Liers and bad people. Usually respect people that don't respect me is not easy to me but I do my best.

—Ce faceți în timpul liber?

—Travel.

—Care este latura dvs. pe care publicul nu o vede niciodată?

—I think I am very transparent. I don't hide big things.

—Când sunteți complet mulțumit de munca dvs?

—No. This is a long way with big space to improve with ache photography I take. I am very satisface when I check old works and I see how with hard work, patience and practice my photos are better.

—Credeți în rolurile tradiționale ale femeii și bărbatului?

—What is this? :-p

—Vă faceți prieteni ușor?

—I am friendly guy. Usually I haven't any problem to meet new people.

—Unde v-ar plăcea să trăiți?

—Living in Hong Kong but traveling a several times per year to Spain is a perfect mix to me. Discover new places is very important to me so travel is a must.

—Care este cel mai stupid lucru pe care ați fost de acord să-l faceți?

—About photography... perhaps be a detective and make secret pictures to a man because his wife contract me to do. this happened long time ago. Lucky that I don't need to get this time of jobs now.

—Există viață după căsătorie?

—I will get married in a few months so I hope!!!
I think a new and exciting life starts with the marriage. Be a team to make projects together. Sound cool.

—Aveți o glumă preferată? Spuneți-o.

—Maybe not appropriate to write here... :-D

—Vă plac câinii sau pisicile?

—Yes, Zoe, my cat is wonderful.

—Pe cine sau ce urâți?

—Really nobody. I try to run away of this feeling that don't give to me anything good.

—Cel mai bun lucru în viață este:

—Discover new and nice things everyday. Kelly, my love and my family.

—Cel mai neplăcut lucru în viață este:

—Don't have time for all the things!

—Este ceva în jur ce v-ar plăcea să schimbați?

—A lot of small things.

—Ce v-ar plăcea să schimbați la dvs?

—Nothing but improve in the good things.

—Ce v-ar plăcea să schimbați în lume?

—Is a topic, but I wish peace, freedom and food for everybody in the world.

—Ne puteți da câteva sugestii pentru fotografii începători?

—Work hard, be patience and practice all the time.

—Dacă extratereștrii ar veni pe Pământ și ați fi prima persoana care s-ar întâlni cu ei, ce le-ați spune?

—Let me go with you! I am boring here alone!

—Dacă ați fi solicitat să faceți un film, ce gen ar fi?

—Noir cinema or a big super production.

—Mâine mă voi duce să fac...

—I am in the middle of the wedding season so now I need to edit a lot of pictures.