But Natural Photography, has devoted herself to newborn and family photography in recent years. However, she realized that it is difficult to find works with the elderly as the protagonist in the previous shooting. The series of "Elderlies" is the photographer Sujata's focus. In the elderly couples, tell their life stories and pure and sincere love in the video...
Sujata Setia
photographer
Web: butnaturalphotography.com
Sujata is a child, newborn, pregnant and family photographer from the United Kingdom, as well as a drama artist, yoga artist Coach and freelance writer. Two years after she started her career, she published works and published works in Forbes, Daily Mail, Vanity Fair, Good Butler magazine and Country Life magazine. Recognized and Sujata is also a professor of photography at EFTI, the most famous photography school in Spain.
Elderlies
Although the project of shooting elderly couples is different from her past works, "Elderlies" retains Sujata's iconic style, frank, natural pose and daily background.
After all, although her themes are different, she still retains the belief that prompted her to decide to shoot: "Love is hidden in moments that we sometimes forget to relive!" In addition to exploring the romantic relationship of elderly couples, "Elderlies" also shows The relationship between grandparents and their young grandchildren.
In short, this series of works helps to illustrate the importance of intimacy, whether it is romance or family, at all stages of life.
I started my career as a newborn and family photographer five years ago, but I noticed that people only bring their children and spouses, and no client asks me to shoot for their grandparents or great-grandparents.
So I divided the shooting process into two parts. I spent a month and a half to take the photos that the client wanted to take. The other half asked their grandparents or great-grandparents to take pictures led by me, together with their grandchildren. Shooting.
During the shooting, the girl said: "I want to go back to the past. When my grandma is young, play with her happily." When I was innocent, I would look for cover to hide my true heart. Today I will let Ayat find the feeling of a child in me, making him free and carefree, because today I will make one with my grandson child.
No matter where I go, I will make sure to shoot an elderly couple there. I cannot express how important it is to me to shoot with them. I will hear their stories during the shooting and witness their purity and purity during the shooting. Sincere love.
For example, when I was shooting in Houston, Texas, I discovered that when I was shooting for my grandfather and grandson, my grandfather’s wife was just sitting silently in the corner.
In order to make their memories more perfect, I asked: Is it possible to invite two elderly people and children to appear together?
Thus, the heart-warming three minutes began. Grandfather gently folded a bunch of flowers, and walked towards grandmother step by step. The grandmother smiled and stared at her coming wife, muttering in her heart, this is the guy who has been with her for a lifetime.
The smile is enlarged at the moment of receiving the bouquet. Grandfather held the little old lady with gray hair in his arms and whispered something. Suddenly, there was a smile between the two, and two old wrinkled hands were tightly held together.
The grandfather and grandmother helped each other, and the two grandsons walked away. A warm family portrait was born.
If God can give me another life, I can make up for the days that I forget to make you happy.
Sujata hopes these photos will inspire people to spend more time with the elderly.
20 years ago, the couple sold their property and bought an RV. Since then, the two have traveled around the world hand in hand...I was fortunate enough to meet them in Dublin, and I am very happy to see them still walking hand in hand on the beach after the storm.
Sometimes, I feel that our generation’s life is so busy, and sometimes I ignore the most precious and selfless moments of life, such as with our grandparents, if we communicate with them often, then we can learn from them a lot of.
Let me hug you again and kiss you again.
"Elderlies" incredible journey to a self-realization, I took the time I was really interested in artistic creation, the love of art from the depths of my heart, my life, one of the people closest to my grandmother, I had Having lost her early, it may be too early for me to truly understand this relationship. I didn't really understand the meaning of this bond until I saw my daughter grow up in the love and care of her grandparents.
Kids & Family
Sujata's shooting skills for children or newborns are also defined by the difficulty of shooting them from children to 18 years old. Photography is very challenging.
If you need animals to appear as guests during the shooting, you must choose the pets owned by the customer. When shooting, you need enough assistants to ensure that the child will not be harmed by the pets. At the same time, let the parents inform you that they may bring animals when you sign the contract. Come on.
This is a very common problem. As long as strict sanitation and safety supervision can be obtained, parents of children will love photos with pets.
most peopleNot realizing that styling is the most important part of photography. Just like choosing a color palette and texture for your painting, you need a very strong sense of styling to make a correct judgment on your work.
My style is to make the picture feel as natural as possible, so most of the works are about the interaction and emotion between people. For newborn shooting...Because my style is heavy and colorful, I choose the props that suit my style and the baby's skin color to match, and more importantly, make the props not overwhelming in the picture.
sujata will spend quite a lot of time in post-processing, integrating her creativity into the work.
sujata’s shooting equipment is Nikon D800, 70-200mm f2.8 for outdoor lenses and 50mm f1.4 for indoors. The lighting is the entry-level model of Elinchrom (D-Lite RX one). Try to use the simplest equipment and more More time to enrich ideas instead of frequent replacement of equipment.
For those who are just starting to shoot, Sujata recommends that no matter where you are shooting, you should trace the light, understand the light, and observe the effect of the light on the subject from different angles.
During the shooting, sujata will let customers participate in the shooting preparations, understand their thoughts and desires, and at the same time combine her creativity with the customer’s desire to make the customer follow the photographer’s posture. There is a lot of uncertainty.
Before shooting, let the children have enough sleep and rest, so that they can have a full state during the shooting. I will also prepare gifts for the children, which is a guarantee that they can quickly become friends.
