摄影师Samuel Virginie

—您上相吗？

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

—您是如何进入摄影行业的？

—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.

—在您看来，一张好的照片最重要的组成部分有哪些？

—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.

—您热爱旅行吗？

—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.

—对于您的职业，您最喜欢什么地方？

—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.

—对于您的职业，您最不喜欢什么地方？

—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.

—摄影的前景如何？

—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.

—您专长的摄影风格有什么特别？

—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.

—您如何应对批评？

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

—摄影有什么趋势？

—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.

—客户选择摄影师时应该遵循什么标准？

—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.

—拍摄时绝不允许什么事情？

—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.

—有哪些摄影师可以捕捉的通常会被忽略的细节？

—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!

—什么影响照片的价值？它的元素有哪些？

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

—您想要为谁拍摄？

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

—您担心什么？为什么担心？

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

—在生命中，给您印象最深的时刻是什么？

—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.

—在生命中谁鼓舞了您？为什么？

—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.

—您如何定义成功？如何衡量它？

—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.

—您在工作中犯过的最大错误是什么？

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

—当您准备去旅行时，要携带什么？为什么？

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

—您如何提高自己以拍摄出更好的照片？

—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:)

—谁的作品对您作为摄影师的影响最大？

—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.

—您想对自己的照片说什么？

—We want people feel something.

—什么激励您继续拍摄下去？

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

—如果能够回到过去，您会有什么不同的举动？

—Begin photos as full time work before.

—对于其他星球上的生命，您有何看法？

—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.

—谁是您的英雄？

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

—您不尊重谁？

—Racist, greed, extremist.

—您在业余时间会做什么？

—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.

—公众从不会看到您的哪一面？

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

—您主张男人和女人的传统角色吗？

—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.

—您很容易就会交到朋友吗？

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

—您想生活在什么地方？

—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.

—结婚之后生活的质量高吗？

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

—您有最喜欢的玩笑吗？请告诉我们。

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

—您喜欢狗还是喜欢猫？

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

—生活中最美好的事情是：

—The life.

—生活中最让人烦心的事情是：

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

—您希望改变世界什么地方？

—So many things....

—对于刚入行的摄影师，您能提供一些建议吗？

—Ask yourserlf why you want to do that?

—如果外星人来到地球并且您是他们见到的第一个人，您会跟他们说什么？

—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!

—如果您被邀请去拍一部电影，您希望是什么流派？

—A kung fu movie.

—明天我会去做...

—Be relax about the future