Critique: Datuk Khalid and Siti Nurhaliza's Wedding

Ok, I’m not blogging about the good, bad and ugly over Siti’s relationship with his hubby. It's boring...

I want to point out my thought over her photo and the dress she wore on the wedding day. First it is about the photo. I realized that all her photo was copyrighted to some company called Ace Management Sdn Bhd and Siti Nurhaliza Production and choose not to publish in my blog. I manage to have a look over some photos that was taken and posted in Sun2Surf and mStar online website.

Frankly, I don't know if the photo was taken by wedding photographer or not. Never the less I found out via Photo Malaysia website, there are two photographer hired for this occasion. One is for Datuk Khalid and one is for Siti Nurhaliza. According to engku (PhotoMalaysia member), the photographers is Ikram Ismail and Bustaman. There was little information from these two photographers in the internet but I can see from the result of the Google search engine, both of them are a journalist photographer.

Taking wedding photo is simple, but the responsible is high. Siti wedding is different because she is a famous. If the two photographers are merely journalist photographer, it is quite shocking. Siti's wedding is a difficult task for any wedding photographer, but it can be a good opportunity for a photographer to shoot up his portfolio if he/she do it right. The photos which published in web are quite disappointing. The task in giving the responsibility should be in professional hand. I don't mind if Kid Chan gets the job or whoever in the WPJA Association get it, it just quite sad to see a bad photo of this pretty lady. I just cannot accept it. Siti can afford to take them all if she wants.

WPJA Malaysia Photographer List

Refer to the photo published in the mStar and Sun2Surf website. It looks disappointing I say it for second time. I don't know how and where to start. It is hard to comment over it as it is too many of them. Obviously, the lighting and the angle is wrong and there is no proper lighting on that time. I think the photographers were not prepared for this important task. If I was chosen to be one of the photographers, I will take this job seriously and go out with full force. I'm not mind to hire extra helper to hold the flash or lighting as it well worth it.

Even the video shot from TV3 look so bad. Siti should not leave everything to that TV station. She should also bring her own professionals production team at her wedding. Leaving it to the media is just like leaving a Mona Lisa painting to bunch of monkeys. I'm not saying that the media is not eligible to take the photo, but it just not ideal to leave everything to people who take a different medium scope of photography.

The second thing is the wedding dress. Indeed, it is an expensive wedding dress, but it also looks bad. The problem with her wedding dress is that (if I’m not wrong) the designers try to mix a Malay wedding dress with a western wedding gown. A bold and brave move but it makes it look so messy. I don't know how much the cost is; just want to say that it not worth it. The choice of white as the wedding dress color is wrong as there is nothing special about it. Why not use pink or light blue or something else but not white. So, it is also a bad choice.

Another thing is the 'tudung' (I don't know how to call it in English). The cover of the 'tudung' shades Siti's face a bit. I don't understand why the designer chooses a shades type of tudung instead of a cover one. There are some shades on top of Siti's face that was cause by the light and flashes in all her photos. The crown look so big and it is a problem. It will look nice if Siti is getting married with a sultan or king, but she is not. She should pick a smaller version of crown to wear. The big crown is expensive and not matches Siti’s head size. Datuk Khalid is not a king and Siti neither a queen. That basically covers it.

Siti's Shades Tudung
Cover Type Tudung

Tons of thought that I want to write in this post. I am disappointed not her relationship with Datuk Khalid but merely on the dress that she choose on her wedding day, the photo that was taken and video that was shot for her wedding. Only if she has the right people to do the wedding, it could be a wedding of the year. Remember the Prince Charles and Diana's wedding?

Everything that was written in this blog is merely my personal thought. I'm not purposely trying to attack anyone who involve in her wedding. If any of them read this post and feel insulted, I would like to apologize for it and hope you can take it as an ordinary critique.

Link:
mStar
Sun2Surf
PhotoMalaysia
Bernama