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walburgablack replied to your post “ok i don’t want to be This Person, but my nieces are now entering the…”
Hindu weddings are so fucking pretty as long as everything is in focus it’s just <3
It’s– they’re just. Fabrics! Henna! People! Food! Lavish décor! Usually good lighting! It’s three to seven days long! People actually look like they’re having fun! Everyone is exquisitely dressed! There are clearly various traditions of giving gifts because there are always so many pictures of various people looking interested in small exquisite objects or trays of food or whatever! It is impossible to take an un-charming photograph regardless of what you’re aiming at! Every single surface is embellished!
It helps probably that the sorts of people locally who are having Hindu weddings are generally surgeons and the like. The local community tends to be fairly affluent, so they’re really nice weddings and would be really nice regardless. But– the outfits! There’s always a white horse, too, that a man is always looking extremely uncomfortable about, because these are not the sorts of people who have spent a great deal of time horseback. But the horse always looks gloriously beautiful in the photos, and for real, more weddings should have horses in them. Also apparently they’re multi-day events so you get great outfit changes and a higher proportion of non-drunk people in the pictures.
I hate printing American Christian-ish-etcetera weddings, because #1 a white dress makes it super hard to get the exposure of the faces right (oh and worse than a white ppl wedding = a Black ppl wedding because no way are you going to get the exposure right, you just have to blow out the exquisite dress into a froth of overexposed nothingness in the interests of the bride getting to have a face, did the photographer do a good job at mitigating this? I’ll save you the question, the answer is no, and to be fair the camera was probably not designed for the task.) #2 a black tux only compounds the issue (this cloud-wearing lady is marrying the void, apparently), #3 churches are uniformly excruciatingly poorly-lit, #4 reception halls are also uniformly hideous at least lighting-wise and usually in all other ways too, #5 the formal photos are always awkward and hard to correct exposure for and also extremely repetitive, everyone does the exact same poses, and #6 the candids are worse because nobody’s ever in focus, people’s idea of formal-wear is so dismal, half the guests are drunk by the time the photographer gets around to taking candids—
Printing wedding photos was my least favorite photo-finishing job, but Hindu weddings? I would do that all goddamn day and never stop being delighted.
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walburgablack replied to your post “ok i don’t want to be This Person, but my nieces are now entering the…”
Hindu weddings are so fucking pretty as long as everything is in focus it’s just <3
It’s– they’re just. Fabrics! Henna! People! Food! Lavish décor! Usually good lighting! It’s three to seven days long! People actually look like they’re having fun! Everyone is exquisitely dressed! There are clearly various traditions of giving gifts because there are always so many pictures of various people looking interested in small exquisite objects or trays of food or whatever! It is impossible to take an un-charming photograph regardless of what you’re aiming at! Every single surface is embellished!
It helps probably that the sorts of people locally who are having Hindu weddings are generally surgeons and the like. The local community tends to be fairly affluent, so they’re really nice weddings and would be really nice regardless. But– the outfits! There’s always a white horse, too, that a man is always looking extremely uncomfortable about, because these are not the sorts of people who have spent a great deal of time horseback. But the horse always looks gloriously beautiful in the photos, and for real, more weddings should have horses in them. Also apparently they’re multi-day events so you get great outfit changes and a higher proportion of non-drunk people in the pictures.
I hate printing American Christian-ish-etcetera weddings, because #1 a white dress makes it super hard to get the exposure of the faces right (oh and worse than a white ppl wedding = a Black ppl wedding because no way are you going to get the exposure right, you just have to blow out the exquisite dress into a froth of overexposed nothingness in the interests of the bride getting to have a face, did the photographer do a good job at mitigating this? I’ll save you the question, the answer is no, and to be fair the camera was probably not designed for the task.) #2 a black tux only compounds the issue (this cloud-wearing lady is marrying the void, apparently), #3 churches are uniformly excruciatingly poorly-lit, #4 reception halls are also uniformly hideous at least lighting-wise and usually in all other ways too, #5 the formal photos are always awkward and hard to correct exposure for and also extremely repetitive, everyone does the exact same poses, and #6 the candids are worse because nobody’s ever in focus, people’s idea of formal-wear is so dismal, half the guests are drunk by the time the photographer gets around to taking candids—
Printing wedding photos was my least favorite photo-finishing job, but Hindu weddings? I would do that all goddamn day and never stop being delighted.
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