High-tech weddings take centre stage
Tamil actor Shanthnu Bhagyaraj and VJ Keerthi was one such wedding that had used drones for clicking photos
By : kruthi gonwar
Update: 2015-08-29 23:15 GMT
At first it looked like a surveillance camera. But, when the bride and groom paused for a minute and smiled at the drone, the guests at a certain wedding were astonished. As it kept pausing and moving from one corner of the mandapam to the other capturing moments, the drone had all the eyes on it. With drones, gimbals, nebulas and other equipment now making regular appearances at weddings, the new-age wedding cinematography is catching up quick. The outcome? Well, wedding videos that are not just whacky and fun, but also have that essential personalised spin to them.
The wedding of Tamil actor Shanthnu Bhagyaraj and VJ Keerthi was one such wedding that had used drones for clicking photos.
Premarajan, a helicam visualiser said that everything has become candid now. His company recently used drones for Shantanu Bhagyaraj’s wedding. “They have a 4K resolution and are easy to operate. One can take any number of pictures and videos without much effort,” he said.
Agreeing with this new trend, Chennai-based wedding photographer Rakesh Prakash said that this change is definitely good. “We have come a long way from jimmy jib, which are huge crane cameras to now using a drone at wedding venues. While a drone or helicam is controlled by a remote-device, the gimbal is a single axis device that enables rotation of the mounted camera to get creative shots of the wedding. This is easy to operate as well,” he said. “Capturing a five-day wedding and making it into a five minute film is not an easy task.
We need to sit with the couple, make a storyboard, get the right shots and blend it all into an emotional journey and hence, the post production creativity plays a major role,” he said.
Couples are now also going that extra mile to book venues that give enough creative space for photographers to make the best use of the resources. Pranesh Padmanabhan, founder, Studio 31 by Pranesh Photography said, “Most couples opt for an open space or venues that have a high roof space of at least 50 feet. This is important as it helps us visualise and conceptulise a film and the teaser.”
Inspiration by the west, many photographers here are using techniques to create some extremely creative videos. Timelapse is one such technique. Vikas Alagarsamy, who co-founded the Zero Gravity wedding photography company with Ajay Ben says, “We have a select team to design the first look of the wedding, a wedding logo, a teaser with the wedding highlights and then the final output.”