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Cute cheeky little fella!

First up, sorry for the lack of updates once again. I was too caught up with work that I have too many outdated post to be posted here!

To continue on from my previous post, here’s a few pictures of an engagement shoot of Marqui and Wyleen. What a beautiful couple they both are! Enjoy these series of pictures.

Cheers people! Stay tune for another post of lovely pictures! (:

Loving the Melbourne coffee culture (:

“Not everyday is a good day, but there’s something good in everyday!”

I’m really enjoying myself right now. I’ve been going out a lot lately especially with my camera. The world seems far lovelier from the eyes of my camera. As photographers, we composed pictures that come within our emotions. We see things based on how we feel. The beauty of viewing the world from pictures is that selected emotions are inserted into the pictures, sometimes separating the negative side of things.

A picture do speaks of a thousand words, but are those words being told truthfully? What we don’t see sometimes in a picture is the process or the story behind it. Do we see the loneliness behind one’s smile? Do we see the grief behind one’s face? Often we hide our emotions in front of the camera just for the sake of having a ‘sweet’ memory of things.

I don’t really know where I’m going with this post but it was just a random thought I did today. However, if there’s a point to all of these, I guess I would say that, yes, life never ever goes as planned. We could pretend everything is alright, but it isn’t! Things that we’ve planned out are often backfired either by ourselves or by people. Each of us are faced with different issues which are no greater than what others are facing. No one have the right to compare their own issues with what others are going through.

My awesome curry laksa (:

But in the midst of it all, we should have the ability to take a step back from our situation and look at it in a whole bigger perspective. I reckon that when we’ve developed this ability to snapped out from focusing too much on our issues and take a step back to look at the bigger picture of things, then that is when we’ll find something to smile about and look at those problems as something to overcome. In shorter words, don’t focus too much on the problem; focus on how you could deal with them!

As I’ve written before..

Nobody trips over mountains.  It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble.  Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.

Many has said this phrase something similar to this, including myself, “When there are no expectations, there are no disappointments.” To a certain point, it is true…till this revelation came upon me. Who do we place our expectations on? The fact is, we can never live up to one’s expectations. Human fails. Now here comes the comforting truth; God never fails. If there is an expectation you have inside of you, let it be on God.

Try taking life less seriously, the world will look more colourful

Gosh I love kids!

Well, I wanted a portrait of him with his instrument but it was quite challenging to get a well exposed picture of him as he was facing his face away from the sun. As seen in the picture below, the skin tone of the subjects are a little underexposed although the overall picture seems well exposed.

So what I did was I’d to reposition myself to a different angle where I don’t get too much sunlight directly into my lens. To brighten up the face, I had my SB900 flash fired at 1/2 of the power from the right side of the frame by using a wireless trigger. I set my aperture to around F9 to control the exposure of the light on the subjects.

I know I have a dirty sensor. You can see an obvious dot on my picture. I have already clean it and it’s something that photographers should pay attention to. You wouldn’t want your clients to see dots on their face (:

Well the answer is “Yes, I do!” Just a few days ago, Sern Yi asked me to take a profile picture for him. I agreed and decided to have something a little bit more ‘classy’ for him as the picture will be used for business purposes.

So here’s something to show you guys what I do.

It wasn’t easy, seriously. It took me weeks of planning and coming out with ideas. After I had the idea, I needed to find people to be in the shoot and people to help me out and not forgetting, making arrangements with the church to use their front carpark.

Shooting the picture is one thing. The other thing is the set-up! The set-up began as early as 5pm and lasted till 9pm when I finally shot my first picture. It’s true that a good shot takes 90% spent on the set-up and 10% spent on the camera.

Shooting this set-up piece was really something new to me. I’ve never done this sorta thing before in my whole entire life. There are so many things involved – lights, people, props, dresscode, lots more! Controling the lightings was the toughest. I had so many diff light sources and each of them gives out different colour. I had to make sure my white balance is just nice for a warm skin tone. Shooting in RAW do help sometimes if you screw up the white balance =)

Enjoy the next few series of pictures!

Jayson on a test shot. You can see poor lonely Tzi-Li sitting alone in the background..awww =)

While the set-up was going on, some of them were enjoying the air cond

A test shot right before the real shot. Check out her red nails!

The old rustic feel

The main shot of the night!

Once again I would like to take this opportunity to thank EVERYONE who in one way or someway helped out the photoshoot! I couldn’t have done it without you guys. You guys rawwk! =)

Stay tune for Part 2..which is the Royal Rangers shoot!