what a spectecular wedding!

Wow! Its been a while when we have a full scale wedding with everything but the kitchen sink thrown in! Its also my first time venturing in Shangri-La Valley Wing. I think the deco is a little different and it suits the mood for our featured couple. I always loved Wesley Methodist church for its deco and serenity.

As mention, its very easy to isolate a subject and shoot a lone portrait with a tele-prime and make with a wonderful image but it takes skill and more effort to venture with a wide and capture groups of people, in sync with your message. Now I truly understand Robert Capa's words "If your pictures aren't good enough, you're not close enough". This is also my first time working alongside with pastor Wendy and we have another wedding together later the week!

Where is Wally?

He is super busy at the moment, shooting, editing, working hard. sorry for the lack of updates, this will persist for for a while.

working on site!

Looks like I was holding an photography workshop and the attendees were standing on 2nd floor observing how i shoot. Images by Alwin!

this world is living too fast

I really lament the pace of life that we are living now. Everyone wants instant things, instant results, instant photography....

I really admire photographers who could whip out a express highlight between a few hours of their break time to showcase everyone their vision in the morning for dinner as an outlet to 'entertain' their evening guests. Its just show technology is so advanced and the its also an tool to "sell" your services to an "ready audience"

I beg to differ from this practices, working in the afternoon greatly diminish my rest time and this will affect my focus for the evening shoot. I have the same type of mindset when I shoot in the morning, I need all the focus, time and energy to observe and craft out the interesting and exciting images I like my clients to have a visual memory of.

I prefer to catch my breath, backup my data (i think its so much more important), and have a peaceful meal with my wife so that I could recharge and be myself again in the evening.

So what if I miss a few deals, I make my client excited about the product after the entire project is completed, with faith that the evening photography is not compromised.

Also I would like to take this chance to express that we prefer more pro-family approach to living our lives. As weddings take up most of my weekends, I would like the non wedding weekends to be dedicated to my family and friends. We will not meet clients on weekends, our meeting days are only from Mondays to Thursdays. I hope most of my clients understand, we only live our life once, and we would like to focus equally on both my loves ones and my passion for work.

I understand most couples work around the weekdays we have facilitated them meeting us after hours on weekdays, a feat that already made me work more than 55 hours a week, so be nice and leave the free weekends to ourselves.

wedding travelogue

Yes, September is the 'spring' season for weddings! Ah, feels so good to be working again! I had the privilege to shoot last saturday wedding at Pioneer Spring Restaurant @ Mount Faber Safra. This was a great place to shoot as restaurants generally do not dim out lights and its so cool to have all the folks play a big role in their wedding! I'm so blessed to converse with everyone in the family and i think it make my photography so much easier. The star of the show is of course the Bride and Groom!

How many people can lay claim they made a standee of themselves?