ighting is the crux and heart of good photography and I don’t need to go on any further how it effects the ambience and the mood of any venue. What makes a venue beautiful or bad is simply the way you light a place and the quality of light. People spend huge amount of money in good locations for their wedding and yet unfortunately end up with badly lit up venues  with bad lights (LED lights) which may look pleasing to the eye, but are just plain bad for photography or videography. Just so if you think we professionals should have our own lights to deal with the situation, please pause and understand their are technical difficulties to deal with an existing bad light and it can’t always be dealt with even with additional lights. And just so if you happen to hire photographers who don’t know how to deal with lights – for there is a entire school of photographers who shoot and work only with ambient light and have very less idea about using lights creatively in their work – You must have seen patch of pink, green and yellow lights on people’s faces on different photographers pages, haven’t you? While this is a topic for photographers to work on you can stay safe with following the tips for lighting as I will mention below. But since this post is not just aimed at customers but also fellow photographers and most importantly wedding decorators. Let me get into the technical details. There are few things you need to understand about lighting –

A very good eg. of bad lightiing of a venue is shown below – this happens to be a posch wedding venue in  Delhi. The LED lights are put everywhere as ambient light! Even if you change it to some other color these cheap LED lights are not going to give you any color closer to true white.