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September 10, 2018

Pre-Wedding Shoot at KLPAC with Kelvin and Pauline

A jam-packed half day pre-wedding photo shoot at KLPAC early in the morning, before topping off with an indoor studio shoot, all within a span of 10 crazy hours. The weather in the  blazing morning sun was uncomfortably hot; otherwise, it was good that it did not rain. I moved very quickly on set for the shoot at KLPAC, using only one speed light and one assistant.

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Here are also some closed-up shots of the wedding rings.

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Posted in Nature, Portraits, Strobist, Weddings · Tagged big tree, buildings, flowers, klpac, nature, photography, portraits, strobist, trees, weddings · Leave a Reply ·
April 30, 2016

Gabriel & Ice: Kuching & Sibu Wedding Photography

It was my first time setting foot in Sibu. I was really excited, apart from the usual lingering after taste of being a not-so-welcomed immigrant from Peninsular Malaysia every time I passed Sarawak immigration with a slip that read a maximum 3 months stay. Unbelievable.

Otherwise, food was amazingly affordable and just simply over the roof in both taste and all-round satisfaction. Weather was superb. I was here to photograph my brother-in-law’s wedding with his wife from Sibu.

We flew into Sibu from KL for the actual day wedding dinner photography, spent the night and took a bum-busting 9 hour car ride back to Kuching the following morning! We didn’t have much time to rest when we arrived in Kuching. I had an early morning the following day for the Registration of Marriage (ROM) ceremony as the bride make up and prep was at the Waterfront Hotel, Kuching.

After the groom arrived at the hotel to pickup the bride, we proceeded to the groom’s house before going over to the Foo Chow Association in Kuching for the ROM shoot. This was followed by a dinner by the pool at the Waterfront Hotel. Here are just a small selection of photos from these two dinners and a ROM shoot.

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Posted in Events, Portraits, Weddings · Tagged events, flowers, hotel, kuching, photography, portraits, sibu, weddings · Leave a Reply ·
May 11, 2014

Lost Childhood Photographs

Looking for pre-wedding photography ideas? How would it be like imagining rediscovering your lost childhood photographs in which your stranger-then wife was present right next to you back then? It was a rather vivid, euphoric and eureka-like moment when I had the idea of putting together some pictures depicting my wife and I at a particular moment back when we were little.

I set about searching for old photographs of us and matched them according to the year they were taken. For instance, pictures taken during 1986 would see me, a 5 year-old boy being right in the frame; where I don’t belong, right next to my wife, a 2 year-old girl. It was either a case of photoshopping myself into her photographs or her, into mine.

Lost childhood photographs

1985: Sneaking up on me during a nap

The challenges of this attempt were many. I had to find the right expressions and body language so I could blend them effortlessly and believably into the scene. The condition and age of the photographs that have been kept for so long caused a great variety of discolouration. This plus the different lighting conditions under which the photographs were taken cause a wide range of colour cast and temperature difference.

Lost childhood photographs

1986: Cheeky me

Lost childhood photographs

1986: Me and my bread

Lost childhood photographs

1986: Can’t take this off from me

Hence, when merging the photographs, I had to be careful to desaturate and perform some colour balance on either one of our pictures to maintain consistency. Sometimes, it worked brilliantly while other times, it looked just too fake. Shadow fall was one of the biggest headache in mimicking. Nevertheless, I thought this never-been-done before concept as an accompaniment to our very own DIY pre-wedding photography would be something extraordinary, if not, “eerie” representation of our historical relationship sealed in time.

I scanned all the pictures on a flat-bed scanner, and up-sampled the images by gradually and methodically increasing the pixel count. I ended up with really large resolution images of an otherwise low-res straight-out-of-the-scanner reproduction of the physical photographs. They could easily go up to a 16″ x 20″ print.

Lost childhood photographs

1988: Fun times at the beach

Lost childhood photographs

1988: A stroll at the beach

Lost childhood photographs

1988: Here we are…

Logically, I did not photograph any of these pictures. It just goes to show how important children photographs are in documenting and reliving one’s fleeting little moments. In this digital age, I’m certain most parents will end up having a large pool of stock images of their children. They will never know when their children will end up using them creatively like in this case.

In contrast, I had actually very little material to work with. Of course, the more pictures, the better, as I had a wider range of scenes and possibilities to work on. Nevertheless, it has been a terrific and enjoyable experience putting together these little mementos with a tinge of humour in what have been one of the most interesting series on lost childhood photographs.

I am indeed glad at the injection of this uniqueness in my wedding.

Chalkboard with lost childhood photographs on display on an easel during wedding

2014: From then, till now

Posted in Arts, Children, Weddings · Tagged arts, children, photography, prints, weddings · Leave a Reply ·
May 9, 2014

A DIY Pre-Wedding Photography

Third of May, two thousand fourteen. That was the date I got married. It’s been crazy times for the past 5 months preparing for the wedding in the run up to the big day. Even crazier was the fact that I attempted to do my own pre-wedding photography! This “strenuous” exercise took place during 3 separate occasions in 3 different locations starting early December 2013.

Our first pre-wedding photo shoot was at Fraser’s Hill. I supposed it can’t get any better than this, in terms of having an outdoor pre-wedding photo shoot in a chilly environment without all the fuss of unavoidable sweating in a hot tropical climate. It was a really comfortable experience, except for the year-end frequent drizzle which posed quite a nuisance to my bride’s hair styling, make up and my sensitive electronic equipment.

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We started off with a row of white fence just outside the horse-riding park. Basically, I took all the individual shots of my wife myself. Once I was happy with the free-hand results, I locked the camera on a tripod and began shooting a couple more frames, while consciously keeping in mind to make way for me to be in the frame later. Once the lighting and angle were all set with the shots perfectly exposed, I would step in and do our thing, while my sister triggered the shutter.

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This ritualistic dance of going back and forth between my shooting pose and the camera’s position to check for expressions and framing was performed throughout the pre-wedding photo shoot! It was especially difficult at most times because 1. I can’t see my own expressions and that of my wife without being behind the camera, hence I can’t ascertain the right moment to anticipate exposure. As a result, I’d often get unacceptable expressions that required a retake. 2. I can’t see our final position in the framing and the dynamics of the angle once I stepped into the frame. Consequently, I may either have a portion of my limbs cut off due to a misjudgement in height and width or not enough white breathing space to hold the frame. These two reasons were enough to drive me and my wife up the wall.

Another challenge of doing it this way was the inability to get more fluid/dynamic/tilted shots with close crop to emphasise a certain moment to convey a strong compositional message. As the camera was fixed in a locked-down position, most of the shots were pretty straight forward standard straight on shots. I guess I have to just accept this.

Due to the above-mentioned limitations, we ended up having a pretty small number of photographs of us both together. Instead, there were more of my wife’s individual shots as I was taking them. Running between the camera and my shooting position was taking up too much time and immensely tiring and stressful. These realisations were what drove me to abandon this method and subsequently got someone to shoot for me at my studio instead of locking down the camera in a fixed position. Even then, the entire shoot was done in accordance to my direction and suggested angles and lighting setup.

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I found a pretty unique-looking tree just outside one of the many cottage-like inns in Fraser’s Hill. I went with a VAL boomed key speed light on a shoot-thru umbrella to camera left and another bare headed speed light to camera right rear to light up the woods behind.

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By then, it was already getting really dark and I was averaging at 1/8 sec, f/5 at ISO 400 on a tripod. I’d have to say the lighting wasn’t too perfect and a little overblown as I was rushing to get the shot before the light disappeared. Consequently, I didn’t have time to dial down the speed lights. One can see the darkish foreground shrubs due to a fast encroaching dusk.

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We continued the following day’s pre-wedding photo shoot at the Fraser’s Hill town centre.

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As lunch drew near, we thought of killing two birds with one stone. We decided to have a meal at the famous Smokehouse Hotel & Restaurant, after which we had a photo shoot in its vicinity. We thought it was easier to have our way around if we were a paying customer.

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Next up, we were at Pulau Pangkor two weeks later for our second outdoor pre-wedding photo shoot. We were still going with the “tripod” method. The late afternoon sun raking in low on the horizon and through the backlit trees was a natural one to start with.

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We started pretty late and did not intend to do a second day, so we had to rush it.

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The low-hanging trees at the Pangkor beach served as a great backdrop for a low angle shot like this.

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After having secured satisfactory number of shots inland, we moved out to the beach when the sun was glowing fiery and warm, as the skies prepared itself for a dramatic sun set. Shooting into the sun was the way forward. This was balanced with a shoot-thru umbrella to camera left.

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We continued long after the sun has dipped into the horizon, when the skies took on a far richer hue.

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Finally, the indoor shots were taken in mid April 2014 at my photography studio; just two weeks before our wedding. I got a trusted friend over at my studio to hand hold the camera for me instead of relying on a tripod. With this setup, any subject’s in-frame movement can be addressed by the smooth counter adjustment of a fluid human hand, thereby saving much time and trouble. Naturally, there were more shots of me and my wife this round. However, I was very much in control of the lighting and angles.

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We started off the shoot at the primary shooting space with a simple white backdrop. Of course, I wasn’t about to miss any opportunities of photographing my wife by myself as and when opportunities presented themselves.

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We switched to a patterned and graduated black backdrop to conclude the first phase of the shoot.

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After completing the white backdrop, we moved on to the secondary shooting area. Here was where it got a little trickier to craft the light against a gloomy surrounding.

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A camera left soft box served as my main key light, while a second zoomed bare headed speed light offered a shaft of textured light across the background. A third bare headed but feathered speed light just skimmed passed my wife’s face to provide fill in an otherwise darkened area due to her looking downwards.

After the above setup was tested fine, I just moved in for a group shot and a subsequent one showing us reading some books and magazines. I wanted to convey one of my wife’s past time and the close association and love we have with content and books.

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One of the final shots involved a high top down angle of us lying on the timber-decked court yard. A single soft box was laid low and feathered upwards to camera right which provided my main key light. A second soft box again feathered to camera left (unseen in the pic below) provided fill.

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We finished off the indoor studio pre-wedding shoot with one frame set against a backdrop of some of my pictures. A single bare headed speed light set to wide zoom blasted through the window blinds to camera right (at 1/2 power). A flagged soft box was at camera left as my key light. This has to be flagged to prevent light spillage to the background to maintain the shadowy lines scraping across my pictures at the rear.

DIY pre-wedding photography at Mudframes Studio

We completed the studio shoot in 6 long hours! It was tiring and brutal, especially for my wife who found it difficult to maintain a natural and relaxing smile. It was truly a fulfilling experience having accomplished something that I never imagined possible.

These DIY pre-wedding photography sessions may not be the cliched overly processed images most typical wedding photography are known for; a genre that is suffering from over-hyped and sensationalism. They may not be unrealistically dramatic and “majestic” or even manipulated beyond recognition.

These basic pre-wedding photographs are just simply a portrayal of an intimate and relaxed representation of us, our interests, who we are and what we do. That is how I want us to be remembered. That is how we want to be perceived.

Posted in Nature, Portraits, Strobist, Weddings · Tagged beach, fraser's hill, island, nature, pangkor, perak, photography, portraits, smokehouse, strobist, studio, trees, weddings · 2 Replies ·
January 18, 2014

Nigel & Theresa’s Wedding Dinner Reception at Passion Road

After Nigel & Theresa’s eventful and exciting wedding ceremony held at their homes last week, I returned to photograph their wedding dinner reception at Passion Road restaurant for a crowd of about 200 guests. This event yielded another more than 1,000 images but I shall let the small selection of pictures showcased here do the talking.

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Just when I thought it would be a quiet and cosy-feeling celebration, the tables were unexpectedly turned on me. My assistant photographer and I wasn’t briefed on the program but it was no problem catching up and slipping effortlessly into the many different fast-paced events that cropped up.

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There weren’t the usual sea of “Chinese-like” restaurant round tables typical of a wedding dinner reception, hence very little table-to-table toasts of drinks with guests I guessed. Cake-cutting, speeches and bride & groom’s celebratory toast were very short affairs.

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There was an amazing but short belly dancing performance by the bride and her friends, before the floor was opened for a free-for-all dancing till late night.

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