Actual Day wedding of Joseph and Jasmine - part 2

The grand opening for the first dish to be served

Joseph and Jasmine waiting anxiously for the first walk in

Actual Day wedding of Joseph and Jasmine

Have been extremely busy and hence the lack of post in my blog. There are lots of photos that I have taken this few months and here a preview of a Actual Day wedding of Joseph and Jasmine I have shot recently

Chameleon Photos

Since most of my assignments comes after July, there's no better time for me to learn more skill and editing style.... So now pardon me to go crazy in uploading of photos. These photos demonstrates how simple attributes of a photo like colour and toning can bring out a completely different favor to it.

Why Edit Your Photos?

Friends has been asking me, why do I spend so much time in post editing of my photos? For some strange reasons, I find post editing really fun but as tedious and time consuming. For me, capturing images is just the start of the photography workflow, more time is spent in editing.

I am not promoting about anyhow capture now and deal with it later mentality. Good composition and mastering the basic techniques is still the fundamental and should always be applied. You should know the rules first before breaking it. I am talking about post editing to enhance whatever is possible to make a photo even better, to emphasize the content.

Most of my photography work (personal) has piled up due to this reason of insisting to post edit. The moment I let my work sit there, I tend to forget and let it be. So it's my personal habit now to start editing as soon as possible for paid assignment. It will be a easy job for me if I just shoot and deliver, but I don't do that.

Another reason why I do a lot of editings is that I wanted to infuse my own style into the photo, a concoction of editing recipes I have created over time. I presumed why my work is chosen partly because of this.

Timeless Romance ~ Le Granduer

In the midst of preparing my personal website, and hopefully I can get it up and running by July. Setting the website part is easy but populating the contents can really be a nightmare as I am never a good writer.

Was digging out photos in one of the model shoot event I have taken part for web page portfolio. Quite a number of photos turned up well, just needed some retouching and enhancement to bring out the subject.












Credits:
Photography : Edmund Lau
Organizer : MNTV
Art Direction - William Chua
Lighting Support - Kenneth Choo & Alex Chim
Makeup Styling - Pretty Box
Accessories & Jewellery - Ponnie Hsu
Gowns - DU DESIGNS

Cute little shoes...

I like this pair of shoes so much that I tried using different ways to photograph it.







and the owner of the shoes :)

Some romantic photos of Serene and Yiqiang

Some of the photos that I took for Serene and Yiqiang sometime ago...here goes.

Colour my world!







Setting the mood with monotone

Fun and Beautiful Couple - Serene n Yiqiang

Well as part of my weekly photography session, I have invited my sister in law and her boyfriend to be my models of the week.
They are such a fun loving couple, it was really easy to photograph them. At least I don't have to pose them and they are natural with the camera as I prefer contemporary photography than studio style. I have always believe having good communication with the models will lead to better results, they were told to just 'be themselves'. After-all, it just a fun photography session

Bare with me on the post editing as I'm always experimental with my images, trying out different techniques.

Chantel and Mommy

Was scrolling to the long list of photos I have took just this couple of months. Usually I do post editing of selected photos that I like and enhance it the way I would love to see. These are the few photos that I particularly like.

Chevonn 1st Birthday

Just came back from a friend baby girl birthday celebration, here are some paparazzi shots.

Back to Photography

It's been sometime since I left film photography and it felt really good to relinquish my passion for this hobby with my purchase of a Digital SLR, the NIKON D700. It's just like my good 'o 35mm film camera.

Still remembered those days, when shooting is not about point and shoot like a machine gun and only later to rely heavily with post editing. It's almost a hit or miss affair during the film days, every photos you take required you to think about the composition and also the technique of know-how to correctly expose a film. The high expenses of developing film also make one to consider learning the proper way to handle the camera.

While I'm not complaining about Digital, it has make photography learning curve much shorter. But to shoot without thinking and expecting the camera to do wonders left many photographers to blame on equipments rather then focusing on the technique.

New technology also means new things to learn. For now, I am focusing on my post editing technique especially so when digital darkroom can really do wonders to the final output.