How to photograph holidays, parties, banquets and celebrations? Preparation for shooting, necessary equipment, appearance.

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Banquet photography services include:

• excellent and live pictures;
• a processed disk with already received photos or a photo on a file-sharing service;
• own individual photo gallery in a few days;
• a unique opportunity to share a link to your photo gallery with your relatives and friends, you do not need to make copies on ten disks.

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Having entrusted us with your event, corporate party or birthday, our photographers will not miss a single important shot and will have time to capture all the important moments and events. At the request of the client, we send two professionals to the holidays at once, so you end up with several pictures that will surprise you with their diversity and uniqueness, since each photographer has his own set of optics for the camera, his own artistic taste and framing from his own angle.

Professional banquet photographer

Professional photography services for a banquet in Moscow are also offered to their clients:

• Detailed photography in the form of a report;
• Staged shots, which include: group photos, pictures of the interior of the room in which the festive event takes place;
• High-quality processing of the taken photos: correction of contrast, color, sharpness, saturation, etc.;
• Professional work of our specialists with the active use of all kinds of flashes and special lenses;
• We have a couple of sets of photographic equipment in order to reinsure ourselves in the event of a malfunction of one of them. So, in any case, your banquet will not be left without a photographer.

We will provide you with unique services of a photographer for a banquet and help you bring a piece of the holiday into your life!

Photo examples for the event

Photographer fees for the event

Photographers Service	Slide show	Detail retouching
2 500 rub/hour	1 900 rub	300r/photo
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Hello friends! In this article we will talk about shooting holidays and celebrations. In this extensive topic, I will try to reveal the features and secrets of shooting a variety of holidays that fill our lives, from children's matinees to banquets and receptions at the very highest level. So let's get started!

What to shoot, and how to make photos from the holiday expressive and memorable?

The photographer at the festival is a kind of chronicler. With the help of his photographs, he can convey the atmosphere of the event and the emotions of the participants, tell the chronology of events and highlight the most significant of them.

In any shoot, it's important to understand what you're shooting and who you're shooting for.

In the case of holiday shooting, this moment is especially important, because. if you are a guest family feast, you can afford to catch funny moments with your friends, because you take photos for them. If you are a hired photographer at a gala dinner or banquet, then your task is to tell about the event as intelligently as possible, presenting all the participants in the best light, because your photos can later be used in the media and other information resources. Therefore, when preparing for shooting, get comprehensive information about the event, who to contact Special attention what can and cannot be removed.

With the help of photographs, you can give the holiday the necessary mood.

If the shooting is based on sad, thoughtful faces and unemotional scenes, the holiday will seem boring. And vice versa, catching bright emotions, smiles, this festive mood will be passed on to someone who will later view your photos. Since the very concept of a holiday radiates joy and fun, then in your report you need to strive as much as possible to emphasize these emotions.

How can this be achieved?

1) Smile and share the general festive mood with the guests. Be relaxed, sociable and friendly. A gloomy photographer will be avoided by people.

2) Always remember and keep in mind that you are filming a holiday, and your main task is to capture and convey the festive mood. Select from the general mass of radiant, positive people, and pay special attention to them, but do not forget about the rest, ideally, each guest should get into your lens.

3) When making staged shots, try to make people laugh. Often you can hear from guests “I don’t look good in photographs” or something like that, what to do in this case? Most people have their own “duty” facial expression for a photo, depicting which they turn out like in a passport photo, but few people like their passport photo. Natural, lively photos can be obtained if you bring them out of this state, for example, by making them laugh, or by making a compliment.

A clear division into plans will help to make your photo essay more expressive.

Overall plan- to convey the atmosphere of the holiday and individual plots.

Medium plan- for emotional scenes involving several people.

Close-up- to convey the emotions of one person.

Shooting one scene in different shots, for example, congratulations, you will convey its atmosphere as accurately as possible. Moreover, the emphasis should be on big plans. General and medium plans they will tell the viewer about what is happening and where, and the large one will show what everything is happening for - the emotions of people. This is what separates amateur photography from professional photography. Amateurs very often shoot everything in one shot, shoot a plot for the sake of the plot itself, without placing accents.

So, we figured out what and how to shoot, now let's talk about how what you can’t shoot if you don’t want to spoil the impression of shooting. Shooting is always judged by the worst shots. Even if you have truly brilliant photographs in your reportage, it is the least successful shots that will be most remembered. What is bad photo Or bad frame? First of all, these are pictures with technical errors - overexposure / underexposure, blurry image. Compositional errors also spoil photos - “cropped” faces, from the edges of the frame, “cropped” arms and legs. Such photographs should be safely rejected, or, if possible, corrected. It is better to leave only those photos of which you are sure of the quality, the rule “better less, but better” works well here.

Now let's talk about scenes that should not be filmed. There is an opinion that the task of reportage photography is to capture every moment of the event in order to tell the fullest about what happened, but we also remember that our task as a good photographer is to capture the event as intelligently as possible, presenting all its participants in the best light. It is this goal that is best adhered to even on friendly parties. That's why remove with care:

1) people for food. Chewing people very rarely come out well in photographs. If the person needs to be photographed at this very moment, make eye contact with them, indicate your intention to photograph them, and wait until they are ready.

2) Quite drunk people. It's no secret that "too cheerful" guests appear towards the end of the holidays. Such people need to be photographed with care, and do it in such a way that their condition is not conspicuous in the picture.

3) slow dancing and kisses you also need to take pictures with care, and in such a way that the subjects of the frame see and know that they are going to be photographed. Such pictures can be compromising for someone.

Preparation for shooting, necessary equipment, appearance.

When preparing to shoot, you need to know general information about the place, time and duration of shooting, the number of guests, additional wishes of the customer (in case of a commercial order), based on this, provide the required number of batteries and memory cards. Check and charge equipment. Take chargers with you. You must ensure the smooth operation of the equipment, and be prepared for the unexpected. In this case, it is better to make sure once again than to miss an important moment due to dead batteries.

For high-quality shooting of most holiday events you will need: a camera (full frame is better), a universal fast lens (for example, nikkor 24-70 f / 2.8), a fast zoom (for example, nikkor 80-200 f / 2.8) and a flash. Full frame and fast optics are needed because most of the festive events take place in rooms with poor lighting, and "dark" optics significantly limit the possibilities of the photographer.

Pro appearance one thing is worth saying - the photographer should always look neat and not stand out. If everything is clear with the appearance, then invisibility is needed so that guests are not distracted by the photographer, and as a result, they look as natural as possible in the pictures. For these purposes, dark, plain clothes are suitable.

Filming process, working with guests, working with lighting, moving around the hall or site.

The shooting process must begin with thinking through the shooting plan, that is, those moments and scenes that must be shown in the final photo essay. This can help scenario plan Events.

It is necessary to visually find and remember the heroes of the celebration, and people to whom you need to pay increased attention.

At the beginning of the shooting, you need to move a lot and actively, so the guests will see that the photographer is working at the event, and in the future they will not be distracted, which will allow them to take the most vivid and emotional pictures, and they will also ask to take a photo.

Then, as already mentioned above, you need to feel the atmosphere of the holiday, relax and shoot what is happening in joyful colors, remembering what kind of photos you should end up with.

It is important to capture all the significant moments of the holiday, for this you need to communicate with the organizers, and know what will happen and when, and accordingly be ready to film everything. It is also necessary to know the most advantageous places for shooting and think over the angles. This analytical work it is better to do it at the very beginning of the event, when getting acquainted with the site.

When working with guests, a smile and goodwill are important. You also need to enjoy the process.

As a rule, at festive events there is a variety of color equipment that illuminates the space in a completely unpredictable way. That is why, in the arsenal of the photographer should be an external flash. It is also important to have the skills to handle it. It's always best to diffuse your flash light by aiming it at the ceiling or walls using special diffusers. A flash fired directly at the subject will cast a strong shadow and flatten the image.

The work of a photographer on a shoot is always a kind of dance– constant moving around the site, searching for the right angles and scenes. And of course this dance should be as smooth and invisible to the guests as possible. An object with large bags and a photo gun running and touching everything in its path will cause discomfort to guests. Therefore, the task of a good photographer is to be everywhere and at the same time be invisible.

Completion of shooting, the moment when you need to finish shooting on time.

The shooting process is best built in such a way as to make most of the shots, and especially portraits, in the middle of shooting. It is important to catch this time when the guests are already passionate about the process, relaxed, and looking good, but not yet “too cheerful” (if we talk about a feast and a banquet). Thus, having shot as much as possible in the middle of the event, the final part of it can be devoted to improving the captured frames, and shooting important points, which according to the scenario should be in the final. If a banquet or a feast has taken the form of a booze, you need to finish shooting by agreeing this moment with the organizers. It is important to remember that your task is an intelligent reportage (unless otherwise stated), and you will be very grateful if you can turn a feast into a cultural banquet in your photographs, and not very grateful if it turns out the other way around.

Well, that's all, I hope after reading this article you have found the answer to the question - how to photograph holidays, parties, banquets and celebrations. If not, post your questions in the comments!

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