Year-End Prague Photo Shoot: A Fun Winter Session

A winter photo shoot in Prague, where a pink coat complemented the orange rooftops

Hi, I’m author S.
Today I’ll also write a little about my approach to taking photos.

I used to take photos inside trams whenever possible too. I couldn’t do that when they were crowded, but this shoot was on a weekday and there weren’t many people on the tram.

Photography certainly involves understanding how a camera works. Look at this photo: my lovely client looks great, and so do the background and the sky. Getting everything to look good consistently takes a thorough understanding of how the camera works.
I might add a little editing magic to change the mood, but I try to capture everything that was there at the time as cleanly as possible. So if you see a photo like this with the sky blown out to white.. that can also mean the photographer doesn’t understand how the camera works.

This photo has certainly had a generous helping of editing magic. My thinking behind the edit was simply that the pink coat was pretty + I thought it went well with Prague’s rooftops, so I gave the whole photo a pink tint. It was very overcast and a little gloomy, but a bit of know-how helped me pull it off 😀

My photography style tends to change with your energy. If you’re full of energy, most of your photos will be too. If you just want a relaxed shoot, mainly for souvenir photos of your visit to Prague, I adapt my style to that. Today’s client is lively, so there are lots of photos like these.

In this photo, I removed two people and the crossbody phone case running across her chest, and drew in two creases in her clothes. You can’t tell, can you?

The pub behind her is called U Sedmi Švábů.
Incidentally, I had a beer here on my first trip to Prague in 2011.

I included Prague’s orange rooftops so she could remember them.
As you can see from my photos.. they don’t follow trends. My guiding principle is to make clean, timeless photos that won’t make you cringe like your old Cyworld pictures when you look at them again 10 or 20 years later 😀

She strikes a confident pose at Cihelná too.
The photos might look a little pixelated on your smartphone or PC. You can zoom in on them, so feel free to take a closer look at the detail. I always pay attention to image sharpness.

The weather was pretty bad, but I think I handled it well

Aleš Embankment (Alšovo nábřeží) was.. so crowded at the end of the year that shooting there was difficult, but fortunately this was a weekday shoot, so I could include plenty of the surroundings like this.
I normally leave a lot of room in the frame for the setting. That way, I can make you and Prague look good together. Of course, if you mainly want close-ups, I’ll do that, but honestly, while it makes my job easier, you see less of Prague 😀

When you’re in Prague, your photos should feel like Prague!
A gust of wind sets the Czech flag fluttering. The weather made shooting difficult in all sorts of ways.

I sometimes take photos that don’t look particularly like Prague too.
Still, most of my photos always have that unmistakable Prague feel. I try to take photos that capture Prague at its most distinctive.

I’m not currently offering photo shoots in Prague or taking bookings for them. I’ll post a separate announcement if I do any shoots there. If I resume shoots in Prague, I’m thinking of charging about 250,000 KRW for 1 hour in the daytime, or around 400,000 KRW for a 3-hour day-and-night shoot, with 2 hours in the daytime and 1 hour at night. The 3-hour shoot would include 30 edited photos and 450 original photos.