攝影師 Tatsiana Avakyan

—首先─您認為誰是哥特堡, 瑞典最優秀的攝影師呢？ :)

—This is a hard question, isn's it? It depends on so many aspects like style, editing, way you work with couple, vision, etc. I personally have some favourites whose works I admire, but I am keeping as a secret, I am letting everyone else to choose for themselves.

—您上相嗎？

—From my childhood I have this idea in my head that I look horrible on pictures... you know fake smile from your first schoolbook picture? I generally consider myself as a non photogenic person. But I believe that anyone can look good on pictures if camera is in right hands.

—您如何開始從事攝影行業？

—It all started in 2012, when I took my first dslr camera to my brothers wedding. I was following the photographer as her assistant, trying to find interesting angles, watching her work with the couple, asking million questions (I can only imagine how annoyed she must have been). I managed to take 3 really nice portraits from that day, which I still like now. This was how it all begun.

—您認為一張好照片裡最重要的元素有哪些？

—Right composition, perfect light, moment and colour are basics of great photo; following these points and combining them in one image, will always end up in an attractive picture.

—您熱愛旅行嗎？

—I definitely do, traveling is always fun for me. It doesn't matter if I go to another country or closest city. Traveling is experience, time for thoughts and always learning new things.

—您最喜歡這個職業的哪個部分？

—I guess being a part of someone's happy day is already joyful in itself. It's amazing to be able to capture couple's emotions on wedding day, see them in love, see them on top of their happiness. Another favourite part of being a wedding photographer is constantly meeting new people, communicating, learning their stories.

—您最不喜歡這個職業的哪個部分？

—There is definitely nothing that I hate about it. And I can't really think of something I dislike, but I guess as any usual job, being a photographer has its own difficulties, hmm let's say like carrying around heavy bags full of equipment.

—攝影的前景如何？

—Classics will always stay classics! There obviously will be new trends appearing, changing constantly to something new on and on, but I know most definitely that classic pictures will always be on top.

—您擅長的攝影類型有什麼特別之處？

—Wedding is a one of kind thing, you can't rewind, ask someone to repeat their actions, you have to be here and now! this particular moment, you have to be alert and ready for your best shot.

—您如何應對批評？

—Constructive criticism is they key to improvement!

—攝影有什麼潮流？

—Yes, most definitely there are, they are changing every season to keep wedding industry alive, new and interesting.

—客戶選擇攝影師的標準有哪些？

—They should love the majority of photographer's works, they should feel like these are the images that they would like to have, they need to agree with photographer's style not to be disappointed when they will receive pictures.

—拍攝時應該避免哪些事項？

—Ruining the moment to get a picture!

—通常不會被注意，但攝影師卻能留意的細節有哪些呢？

—It's the morning before wedding, normally guests are not involved into this part of the day. Photographer can capture all the exciting moments before the ceremony.

—什麼事物會影響照片的價值？它包含了哪些因素？

—It's uniqueness, the moment, feelings and composition of course.

—您認為哪個人可以被視為21世紀的代表人物？

—In each era there is one, but it's too early to judge yet.

—您想拍誰？

—Grace Jones is number 1 on my list

—誰能在生命中激發您的靈感？為什麼？

—I've never had a muse or an idol to look up to, I always try to take inspiration from people around me; there is always something we can borrow as an example from each other

—您如何定義成功？您會怎麼衡量它？

—Success is being respected, feeling good about what you are doing, enjoying your job, feeling happy.

—當您要去旅行時，您會帶什麼？為什麼？

—I normally take just most necessary things to avoid having and extremely heavy bag, but of course my camera is number one to take with me!

—在您擁有的物品中，有任何您希望沒買過的嗎？為什麼？

—Fish eye lens! Bought in in 2014 for some reason, thought I could do some fun things with it, but it turned out to be totally not my style, so I sold it few months after.

—您如何學習拍出更好的照片呢？

—Reading articles, trying they things with camera, shooting often.

—哪件事是您希望從開始拍照時就知道的？

—Business and marketing, boring but useful!

—讓您持續拍照的動力是什麼？

—Willingness to improve!

—如果能回到過去，您會有什麼不同舉動呢？

—If to speak about my life events I would choose to study a different subject in university and would go in photography even earlier then I did.

—您對在其他星球上的生命有什麼看法呢？

—Hell's yeah!

—您什麼時候會對自己的作品完全滿意？

—When reality exceeded my expectations.

—您認可男女性的傳統角色嗎？

—I believe in gender equality!

—您曾同意嘗試過最愚蠢的事是什麼？

—I have done too many!

—結婚後還有人生嗎？

—Yes definitely! Wedding is just another event in your relationship. So if you focus on each other and keep caring for your partner it will get better and better day by day.

—人生中最棒的事是：

—People who surround me.

—您希望改變世界的哪些方面？

—If I could, I would erase racism from face of the Earth.

—您能為新進攝影師提供一些建議嗎？

—Start out as an assistant! Practice a lot on couple photoshoots, not necessarily wedding, learn how to work with 2 people in picture.

—如果外星人來到地球，而您是他們第一個遇見的人，您會跟他們說什麼？

—''May I take a picture of you?''

—明天我會去做...

—Shoot! Shoot! Shoot! Edit! Edit! Edit!