攝影師 Samuel Virginie

—您上相嗎？

—Hahaha...Part of the team is;)
Try to find which one;)

—您如何開始從事攝影行業？

—One day, we have decided to leave our country, 7 years ago now and go to New Zealand : need some fresh air, need a "new beginning" (what's better than Aotearoa for that), find yourself into a perfect lost in translation atmosphere and be into the wild.Our fascination for landscapes and wildlife was so satisfied in that place and our life so different from what we had in France, we decided to take the risk to do what we love: Photos, as our full-time job!Life drove us then in Moorea, Tahiti and Bora Bora when we stayed for 4 years and where we win our first International Awards for wedding and honeymoon photography.Now, we are based in Victoria, in Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada. The West Coast is incredible, wild and changes constantly. We serve destination and of course all our island.

—您認為一張好照片裡最重要的元素有哪些？

—Capture THE moment! The moment you can't create after, the real smile, real laugh, real tears, real emotion!:)
And to pass from a good photo to a beautiful photo we think the most important is the angle, the composition of the photo, find the original point of view, the nicer light or colors that's sort of things. We don't follow trends and Instagram new filters or buy new presets to be like others. We are first of all Artists, not businessman.

—您熱愛旅行嗎？

—Of course, who doesn't like that!
More than just traveling a week or two, we like experimenting new areas by living there for a while. For now, we used to live in 5 different countries and islands over 4 continents. It's really interesting to cross different people, religions, ways to live.

—您最喜歡這個職業的哪個部分？

—Meet new people! We love ear about how the couple met, what's they want to do in the future, and we begin friends every time!:) It's so great to be the witness of their special event!We love our work cause every time it's different: different people with different background from different countries, different styles, it gives a lot of inspiration. We also love to create these images that come on our mind and launch a new concept by talking to each other (my husband and I as we work together). No way to propose always same poses etc... We have to create.

—您最不喜歡這個職業的哪個部分？

—Hours behind my computer to communicate (not with people but with updating, social media, submit work on blogs...) We prefer to email my customer or chat with them directly and think about our shoot, be behind our camera;)
We hate the fact that Photography is not nowadays a work but a hobby. It's a hard job which requests a lot of time to understand what is photography.

—攝影的前景如何？

—Hard to say! Nowadays, you can cover a wedding with a phone so...
For our part, we forget the idea to think about that and we focus on the present.

—您擅長的攝影類型有什麼特別之處？

—You can't miss the wedding and can't lose a piece of this event! That's a lot of pressure if you think like that, but it's that! We always think we want to offer to the bride and groom the perfect souvenir ever and some pieces they had not seen too. Wedding photos it's a lot of emotions too, you have to let your heart live the moment as well to provide emotional photos. Not thinking you are at work.

—您如何應對批評？

—Criticism, if it's from people who care about photos, is always good and permit to grow up!

—攝影有什麼潮流？

—Of course there are. Light, compo, specific moment, we can really see some difference from a year to another. It's nice to get inspired by that and it's also important to stay as you are without to copy or imitate someone.

—客戶選擇攝影師的標準有哪些？

—Two things : the style of photography (bride and groom need to be in love with photos of the photographers, they need to feel something, they need to laugh, to say omgthat'sacrazyamazingphoto etc) and the feeling with the photographer during chat and meetings. Cause they will spend the most memorable day of their life with him/her.

—拍攝時應該避免哪些事項？

—To have "paparazzis" all around you, constantly. That's not good for bride and groom who feel on stress cause they realize their Photographer can't work properly.

—通常不會被注意，但攝影師卻能留意的細節有哪些呢？

—Light, color, beauty of simple things (a detail on the dress, the hands of grand ma, the smile of a kid, ...)
Anticipate the moment.
The camera angle, not to be afraid to be wet or dirty and go on the ground or on the top of something to find the best angle.
Understand people, immediately find who they are and what people have more beautiful, how they are photogenic cause everybody is!

—什麼事物會影響照片的價值？它包含了哪些因素？

—The authenticity (this includes emotion) and the composition (this include the part of Art)

—您想拍誰？

—People in love, again and again, from all around the World.

—您會擔心什麼？為什麼？

—With new social media, we feel Photography begin to change a lot...

—您人生中印象最深刻的一刻是什麼？

—You speak about personal life or work?Personal : was to swim in the middle of 200 wild dolphins in New Zealand.Work : obtain Permanent Residency in Canada thanks to our work and recognization.

—誰能在生命中激發您的靈感？為什麼？

—People who live with the smile even if life is hard, people who don't need too much to be happy, people who don't envy nobody and nothing but just live their life. Artists who continue their passion even if it's hard.

—您如何定義成功？您會怎麼衡量它？

—The success is not necessarily to win lot of awards and be published in all magazines as this depends more of your communication ability than your skills but the success is to make all your customers happy and to comfort them on their choice! To received some news from them even after 2 or 3 years.

—您在工作上犯過最大的錯誤是什麼？

—Said the truth about commission hotel asked for Photographer and fees entrance we have to pay to our clients...

—當您要去旅行時，您會帶什麼？為什麼？

—Camera of course, a bag to hike, good shoes to walk, and travel as light as we can.

—您如何學習拍出更好的照片呢？

—We try to watch as much as we can photography on magazines, books, photography website but also go on exhibition, see different kind of Arts like painting, dansing.... . I'm not a big fan of Photoshop, we work with Lightroom of course but we don't want to become more illustrator than photographer. We prefer to find the good way behind my camera than behind my computer, don't want to create rain for example, I want the real rain, if there is no rain, it's not to me to do that. So we try to experimente by ourself new effect, with material, angle etc...Also as we work in team we like criticism the work of the other and it's helpful:)

—身為攝影師，誰的作品對您影響最大？

—I begin photos when I was 12 and more deeply when I was 16. It was not wedding photo and I worked alone. Nowadays, I can call friends some of the more famous Wedding Photographers of the World and they have an impact for sure on our way to see photography.

—您想用自己的照片說些什麼？

—We want people feel something.

—讓您持續拍照的動力是什麼？

—It's our passion, how can I stop my passion?I don't need other motivation to continue photos!

—如果能回到過去，您會有什麼不同舉動呢？

—Begin photos as full time work before.

—您對在其他星球上的生命有什麼看法呢？

—I'm curious, why not?
But I'm more concern about life in our planet we are going to completely lost...I prefer government put their money to save our planet before to explore other places...We have to find solution to fix our mess.

—誰是您的英雄？

—People who fight for a best world, against animal traffic, against starvation, against child abuse, sometimes alone...
Jane Goodall, Diane Fossey,Warris Diries...

—您不重視誰？

—Racist, greed, extremist.

—您空閒時會做些什麼？

—Hiking, snorkeling, time with our dog – enjoy life with my husband!
And spending time with our friends. Laugh, eat and enjoy as much as we can.

—您的哪一面是公眾不曾看到過的？

—"The dark side" Sorry, I can't resist!

—您認可男女性的傳統角色嗎？

—Traditional where? That's the first question!
We think people are free to do what they want in their own life, we will never judge.

—您容易交到朋友嗎？

—With humor I guess and our terrible French accent perhaps;)

—您希望在哪裡生活？

—We are good where we are. We are Permanent Resident of Canada now. We have just to explore this amazing country and continent but we are good staying there.

—結婚後還有人生嗎？

—Of course! It's just the beginning! And a good excuse to make anniversary! :)

—您有最愛的笑話嗎？請告訴我們。

—I need to mummer, it's about a camel.... :)

—您喜歡狗還是貓？

—Ask to Matari our dog and our Duchesse (cat of course)

—人生中最棒的事是：

—The life.

—人生中最煩人的事是：

—The dark side of humans, fact they need always more...and maybe now social media.

—您希望改變世界的哪些方面？

—So many things....

—您能為新進攝影師提供一些建議嗎？

—Ask yourserlf why you want to do that?

—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？

—First of all : Why are you here guys?:) I will show you how beautiful is our earth! Let me come into your flight thing I'm sure we can go from France to Japan in only 2mn that's so cool! Hep, let's me try your laser, just once! The blue one!

—如果您被邀請去拍攝電影，那會是什麼類型的電影呢？

—A kung fu movie.

—明天我會去做...

—Be relax about the future