Blog of a HK Wedding Photographer

I have been very busy with all weddings in Oct and I am very sorry for not updating the blog this month.

So, what am I doing now? I am packing my luggage now and getting ready to fly to Hua Hin Thailand tomorrow for the destination wedding of Wendy and Paulo. The wedding will be at Sofitel Hua Hin.

I might not be able to pick up your call and reply your email in next few days, please send me email or type a SMS to me, and I ‘ll try to get back to you ASAP.

the following photo is from website of Sofitel Hua Hin

 

 

Date: 1 Oct 2007
ceremony and reception: The Hong Kong Jockey Club Happy Valley Clubhouse

My fav of the day. This was taken at the Bar of the club house

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I love this wedding. you can always see laugh, smile anyplace, anytime.

When I first shoot the ROM of Carla and Hong 1 year ago, they ‘re pretty shy in front of the camera.

A few months later, I took the "post wedding photos" for them, much better this time, it took me 30 min before they got loose up.

On Sept 29 this year, they had their banquet at Hotel Nikko Hong Kong. To my surprise, even after one year, they still look like newly wed !!! But this time, they are very sweet and with lots of smile  all the time.

Be careful of the shoe!!!

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Hi all existing clients,

If you have not finalized on the design, layout & photos of your album, I highly recommend you to make it finalized before end of October. By meeting this deadline, we can have the albums ready before Christmas (and you can show it in your Christmas party).

yours,

simon.the.photo

Hi everyone, do yo like to work with Simon in weddings? I am now hiring an assistant (part time or full time)

if you have the following characters and abilities, you ‘re the one I am looking for

• Cheerful & out going
• Prepare to carry heavy equipments for me
• Can work under pressure — I always shout at my assistant
• knowledge of photoshop is an advantage
• good command of English

The assistant ‘ll helps me in the following areas

• taking care of Simon in a wedding
• taking care of all equipments
• setting up lighting equipments
• help simon communicate with the clients
• shooting in some occasions

If you are interested, please send me an email with recent photo to
wedding (at) simonthephoto.com
with information of yourself. Video is also accepted.

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(Update - 18 feb, 2008)
I have recruited a new assistant - Vickie since Dec 2007, and she did help me a lot in all the weddings in last  two months. She is now working with me for weddings on weekends and I am still looking for another assistant for weddings on weekdays. If any one of you are interested or you know someone who may be interested to work with me, please don’t hesitate to contact me.

Just kidding, I think I am still not qualified as a good interior photographer. Over 90% of my works are still weddings with around 5-10% of Bar Mitzvah, Boudoir photo session & Party.

Two weeks ago, I got an assignment from Sun Hung Kai Properties to shoot the club house of the Manhattan Hill, it was very interesting. But I found it was much more difficult than shooting weddings, as it took a long time to set up every single shot.

Just a few behind the scene shots

I have been looking forward to wedding of Joanna and Gordon for a very very long time. I had shot their engagement photos and Ken helped them to put up a pre-wedding video. It seems that it was a long time since I first met them. Their engagement photos are one of my favorite set !!

We had a blast on their wedding day, everything was perfect.

Their love story is amazing, don’t miss and take a time to read this. I learned one more thing on their wedding day — the reason they choose Hotel Conrad for their reception — it is the place at where the first time Gordon dated Joanna to attend a seminar. Wonderful !!!

date: 23 sept 2007
ceremony: St. Margaret ’s Church
reception: Conrad Hotel

My fav photo of the day. This was taken just after the ceremony. There was a shower and we had to stop taking the group photo outside church. Just after Joanna got on the car, I noticed the raindrops on the windows, the reflection of Gordon, and the way Joanna looking at Gordon — all worked together very well

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As a wedding photographer, we always face very difficult lighting situations … …

I shot the engagement photos of Stella and Alex three weeks ago and I encountered a challenging situation. We planned to go to beach in the afternoon but we ‘re late in our schedule that we didn’t leave Central until 4:30 pm. I started to worry as we might not have enough light on the beach as sun set at 6:00pm.

Just before we left Central, we passed "the Candle Company" on Lyndhurst Terrace, and I thought we should get some candles and they might be useful on the beach. With those candles, I finally got one of my favorite photo of the day on the beach.

when we arrived at the beach, we only got 30 min of sunlight and the sky turned blue and dark very very fast. I asked them to light up the candle and take a rest. When most of the other people left, the beach started to become very quiet and it was very romantic indeed.
I liked the contrast of the warm candle light and the blue and cool sky

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