{"id":251,"date":"2007-05-18T14:43:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-18T13:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicophotography.com\/blog2\/2007\/05\/18\/on-being-a-foreigner-wedding-photography-and-facing-the-challenge\/"},"modified":"2015-12-09T19:05:08","modified_gmt":"2015-12-09T11:05:08","slug":"on-being-a-foreigner-wedding-photography-and-facing-the-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicophotography.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/on-being-a-foreigner-wedding-photography-and-facing-the-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"On being a foreigner, wedding photography and facing the challenge."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Finally, here comes the blog!<\/p>\n

Lost in translation might have been a better title, summarizing pretty much the whole situation I’m facing here.<\/p>\n

Life in Taiwan for a foreigner is a strange mixture of different feelings, requiring a good sense of humor. I could go on and explain it but I doubt I can, so I invite you to come around and have a look for yourself.<\/p>\n

As I’m trying to develop my studio, doing mainly wedding photographs, I realised how different both cultures are.<\/p>\n

Traditionally, in Taiwan, couples who are about to marry would have their pictures taken in a studio, and maybe on location, those wedding pictures would normally be taken a few months BEFORE the wedding and then turned into a big fat wedding album to display for all to see on your wedding day.<\/p>\n

The style is usually “kitch<\/span>” or cheesy (whichever one you prefer!), if not VERY “kitch<\/span>” or VERY cheesy, but it suits the market, the customer is king after all; and the job they do, if not to my taste is, in most cases, very professional.<\/p>\n

To sum up : they do Cheesy and they do it well!<\/p>\n

So in order to do business one must adapt, at least that’s what I was told, and being<\/span> stubborn it is exactly the opposite I’m doing, persisting in taking natural, relaxed pictures. Let’s face it: I cannot compete with Taiwanese cheesy studios, they are too good at being<\/span> cheesy, one might say they have reached some kind of cheesy heaven (might sound appealing to a Frenchman<\/span> though…), so I go the other way, and keep taking the pictures that I love, because after all this is why I got in the business in the first place: making a living out of my passion.<\/p>\n

I will build a niche market for people who enjoy natural, modern and relaxed wedding photography.<\/p>\n

Do what you love!<\/p>\n

Nico<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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