Why do you need professionals to help you with wedding photography and videography? |為什麼您需要專業婚紗攝影師和攝製人員？

By Tina, Lead Photographer and Cinematographer 首席攝影師和電影攝影師:

I know that I am quite a creative person. One day I suddenly have an idea to make a cake in an experimental way. I do not have a recipe. All I have is imagination and guess what will mix well. Since it is hard to buy flour now (due to pandemic, I guess everyone wants to stay home and bake?), I bought filo pastry, because it has lesser fat than puff pastry. I have also bought double cream, bailey’s (Irish cream liquor), raspberries (Couldn’t find strawberries) and strawberry custard (still want to taste the strawberry).

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我知道我是一個很有創造力的人。 有一天，我突然想以一種試驗方式來做一個蛋糕。 沒有食譜，有的只是想像力。猜測什麼材料可融合在一起。 由於現在很難買到麵粉（由於大流行，人人都想留在家中做蛋糕？），所以我買了filo pastry，因為它的脂肪比油酥 (puff pastry)少。 我還買了奶油，bailey’s（愛爾蘭奶油酒），山莓（找不到草莓）和草莓奶油（仍然想品嚐草莓）。

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Here are the steps I have took for making the cake. First problem I needed to tackle – How to fit the filo pastry in the pan? To be honest, I don’t really know, but since I am a creative person, I cut the sheets into stripes and fill it up with melted butter. I was hoping that the butter would glue the stripes together. Not sure if I have mis-read the package, one of the base came out dark brown! Not too sure why the other one is looks light brown. I have put these two bases in the oven for 10 mins, in 180 degree. After that, I poured the strawberry custard onto one of the base and put the raspberries on top before putting another layer of filo pastry. Then, I poured the double cream (mixed with bailey’s and sugar without measurement. Of course, I do have recipe.) onto the top, decorated it with the rest of raspberries and some chopped almonds.

這是我做蛋糕的步驟。 我需要解決的第一個問題-如何將Filo Pastry 放入盆中？ 老實說，我並不清楚，但是由於我是一個有創造力的人，所以我將它切成條狀並加入融化的黃油。 我希望黃油能把條紋粘在一起。 不知道我是否誤讀了包裝，其中一個盆出來變成是深棕色！ 不太確定為什麼另一個看起來是淺棕色的。 我將這兩個盆在烤箱中以180度放置了10分鐘。 之後，我將草莓奶油倒在一個酥餅上，然後在上面放上山莓，然後再鋪上另一層酥餅。 然後，我將奶油（沒有計量的bailey’s和糖混合在一起。）將混合了的奶油塗在上面，並用其餘的山莓和一些切碎的杏仁作裝飾。

I couldn’t wait to taste it. Actually, it tasted quite bitter because of the bailey’s and the burnt filo pastry. The strawberry custard tasted very blend. Probably the only part which is okay is the raspberries.

我等不及要品嚐了。 由於貝利和焦了酥，它的味道很苦。 草莓奶油味道很淡。 唯一可以接受的部分是山莓。

This proved that I cannot be a cake maker. I am quite sure no one will hire me to make their wedding cake. This made me think about some people I came across just get their friends and relatives to take photos for their weddings. For video, they would rely on tripods. I am sure a lot of people are actually quite talented photographers, although they are not full time photographers (or videographers), but would you like to take the risk? They may just guess it would look nice and mis-read the precious moment and missed those which are important, or worse, make it a testing ground, like what I did for the cake! After the images (and footage) came out, they may not do the post-production. A lot of people underestimate time needed and probably they were not being paid for doing that, they would not put this in priority. Probably, most of the shots are not useable, not many of them are acceptable.

這證明我不能做蛋糕匠。 我很確定沒有人會僱用我做他們的結婚蛋糕。 這使我想到了一些人只是讓他們的朋友和親戚為他們的婚禮照相。 對於錄影，他們依靠三腳架。 我敢肯定，實際上很多人都是很有才華的攝影師，儘管他們不是全職攝影師（或攝錄師），但您想在一生人一次的婚禮中冒險嗎？ 他們可能只是覺得場景可能看起來不錯，又誤讀了個珍貴的時刻，錯過了重要的時刻，或更糟糕，就像我為蛋糕所做的一樣，用您的婚禮來做一個試驗場！ 圖像（和影片）出來後，他們可能不進行後期製作。 許多人低估了所需的時間，並且可能沒有為此得到報酬，因此他們不會將其放在優先位置。 可能大多數鏡頭都無法使用，可接受的鏡頭並不多。