Posting date: February 12th, 2010 | Category: baby, personal | Thanks God.
Thanks for everyone ’s blessing.
shulin ’s mui mui was born this morning with a weight of 2.4kg. Xandra ’s safe though has pain at the wound at the moment
it ’s my second time watching the birth of a baby, yet it’s still very amazing for me. The baby is so small and fragile, have to be handled with extreme care.
My parents helped me to take the following photos in the evening. Loving!!
Thought I am very tired now as I got little sleep in last two nights (and still need to do some retouching works now), but I am too excited and can’t wait to share the photos of mui mui with all of you.
Posting date: February 9th, 2010 | Category: baby, personal | we are ready for shulin ’s mui mui.
bed. Ready !!
formula milk. Ready !!
diapers. Ready !!
clothing. Ready !!
Camera. Ready !!
Mama. Ready !!!
PaPa. Ready !!
Shulin. Ready !!
Exciting !!! Our original planned delivery day is Feb 20 (人日), but after the routine check last week, we need to move the date earlier to this coming thusday. Yes !!! Two more days to go !!!!
more news will be put on my facebook fans pages and twitter page in next few days !!!
we are giving some practice to shulin for taking care her mui mui
» Continue reading two more days to go !!! – shulin ’s mui mui
Posting date: January 20th, 2010 | Category: baby, family photo, personal, pregnancy | Time is fast, it is already Jan 20th of 2010 and this is my 1st post in 2010.
Last few weeks – as busy as usual, no need to mention again – don’t want to bore you … …
What I am going to let you know and surprise you is: Xandra and I are going to have our second daughter next month !!!!!!!!!!! We ‘re so happy and excited for the arrival of this baby. We planned for it long time ago – after we had the 1st baby (Shulin), both of us thought that it would be much much better to have another child so that the two children can grow up together.
Before Shulin was born, I invited Lawrence to take our first pregnancy photo session. So to be fair to the younger baby, I arranged another photo session last week and we ‘re glad to have Ken Lam (the Kodak UK photographer of the year “2009”) to help us this time.
Even though the weather of the day was not good, we had lots of fun. It was so cold and wet outdoor that we finally decided to have the photo taken in a shopping mall and train station.
Here is a sneak peek. Ken, thanks for your great works, the photos are wonderful and you captured the happiness of my family.
Also great thanks to Canly, polly of faces hk and “Dai E” for all your great help on the day !!!!
More news of the baby coming very soon … …
Love this shot!!! we had this photo taken at the Shatin New Town Plaza shopping hall
» Continue reading simon is going to be a father oftwo daughters next month
Posting date: December 19th, 2009 | Category: I-do, personal | firstly, let ‘s have a quick update of myself.
From my experience, after the very busy season from Sept – Dec, I will start to get sick in Jan. This was the case in last two years. But it happened earlier this year, both Canly and I got sick since early dec. It was really tough as all wedding jobs ‘re very demanding and we had to work long hours.
When I started to get well last week and thought that the sickness was over, my daughter Shulin got inflected (from playgroup I believed), and started to vomit since last wed. And after that, my whole family got inflected and we all had vomit and diarrhea since last Thu and Fri. Yes, I had diarrhea, a disaster for a wedding photographer (and I had wedding jobs on last Thu, Sat and Sun).
Thanks that the anti-diarrhea medicine really worked, though I was very tired on the weddings days.
As of today, I am completely recovered and ready for all the challenges again !!!!!
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mimi and ramsy ‘s wedding was on last sat. I was blessed that, I had a beautiful and nice bride on the day, with a very handsome groom, and a super happy bridal party. Though I was not feeling very well, the photos turned out great – and it is definitely one of my fav wedding in dec.
ceremony and reception: four seasons hotel hong kong
video: ken of simon.the.photo
my fav shot of mimi and ramsy of the day
» Continue reading wedding of mimi and ramsy
Posting date: November 10th, 2009 | Category: engagement, personal | Let’s talk about oversea pre-wedding photos today.
I didn’t do too many oversea photo sessions in last two years. There are several reasons behind.
First, looking at my working schedule and my family life, it is almost impossible to be away from home town for anything over 3-4 days. In addition, I hate flying home and then having to shoot a wedding the day after. there are so many accidents that can happen and I really don’t like taking the risk of it.
Then, I can’t work out the justification of the time and effort needed for oversea assignment. When I stay in Hong Kong, I can shoot 3-4 weddings/pre-weddings a week, and I can still work on post-processing and albums and meet clients for the rest of the time (not to mention, have the time to play with shulin as well), so why spend the extra time on travelling for shooting just 1-2 couples a week.
last, and the most important, I love capturing the happiness and the love of the couple, much more than capturing the magnificent view of a location. I feel so happy when I get comments like “wow, the bride is so beautiful in your photo”, “your photo is so warm” . it is all about people in my style.
But don’t get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with oversea pre-wedding, it just doesn’t fit my style and work schedule very well at the moment. And it is always good to have your photo session at a remote location when you can forget all your works, and no interrupt from your blackberry.
OK, back to clara and kevin, I couldn’t be happier when they flied all the way from Shanghai to HK to have their pre-wedding photo session here.
“Hi Kevin, there are so many nice locations in Shanghai and people in HK love having pre-wedding photo there, why do you come to HK instead?” I asked Kevin
“yes, the locations are nice, but when you see the view everyday, and everyone having the same photos at the same location, you feel bored. And we love your style instead” answered Kevin
Oh Kevin, you got the point !!!!
locations: the Peak, Shek O, Central
Here are my fav “day” and “night” shots
» Continue reading nice couple from shanghai
– clara and kevin
Posting date: August 29th, 2009 | Category: barmitzvah, personal, photo shooting technique | I was enjoying the “holiday” in last few weeks and very lazy updating the blog.
with only a few photo sessions in august, I had more free time to clean up the photo editing and album backlogs. Apart from it, really enjoyed the extra time I had with shulin. We went to different playgroups (little gym, ballet junior …. …) or went to swimming everyday – this was such a wonderful time (you can see some photos and video on my facebook fans page) !!!!
Before writing this blog, I was packing my equipments to prepare the photo session tomorrow – the bar mitzvah party of hugo. This is the kick-off of the peak season and my schedule was fully packed before the Chinese new year. Hopefully, I can update the blog more frequently in this season … …
In this and the next few posts, I ‘d like to share some photo techniques that I frequently use
I love shooting in available light, especially on a wedding day. But I also use a lot of off-camera flash, especially during the portrait sessions.
Here is an example – the bar mitzvah portrait session for hugo I did early this month. This is one of my fav image of the day – I love his expression a lot. You may think we had wonderful sunset light in this shot … …but … …
click here to see how this photo was created.
» Continue reading the sun in my pocket – part one
Posting date: July 22nd, 2009 | Category: engagement, personal | sometimes I am amazed how people get to know me. I don’t have a studio or office, other than those two listings on yahoo and google search engine, I don’t do any print advertisement. I always wonder if I can still do any business if there is no internet … …
Michelle and Tony didn’t have any plan for pre-wedding photo before their wedding day. The plan didn’t change until they went to the hotel last year for site visit and, so happened my other clients (Karen and William) were playing their pre-wedding photo slideshow in the ballroom. Felt so glad that Michelle and Tony love my photos and get my name finally from Karen and William via the hotel staff.
That ’s how we get to know each other, amazing, isn’t it ??
So, how do you get to know simon. Take some time to answer the poll below. If you know me through other channel, please let me know in the comment section, so that I can add it to the poll.
OK, back to michelle and tony ‘s session. I almost thought we ‘re going to postpone the session as we started on a rainy day. When we arrived at Shek O in the morning, it rained so bad that we had to stay inside the car for a while.
I couldn’t stop myself asking them why they didn’t postpone the session … … guess what answer from michelle … … “I need to get this photo session done asap, so that I can go out to eat … …” cool !!! Look forward to your wedding in Oct !!!!
rain drops falling on the happy couple
rain stopped finally … …
one of my fav of the day.
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» Continue reading how do you get to know simon – michelle and tony
Posting date: July 5th, 2009 | Category: personal, wedding photographers | wpja (wedding photojournalist association) just released the result of their 09 Q1 contest. So nice to learn that I am ranked as one of the top 20 wedding photographer. This is highest points and ranking I ‘ve ever achieved in wpja contest.
to give you some background of the wpja contest, it is a contest that only allows photojournalist style wedding photos to enter and NO IMAGE ALTERNATION (that is photoshop) is allowed. hence, it is a contest of photography technique, rather than photoshop technique. That ‘s why I like this contest a lot. (Having said that, there is nothing wrong using photoshop to enhance your clients’ photos, in fact, I did a lot, but I just like the style of wpja contest)
an extract from wpja contest rules
’Images submitted to the Contest must not have been altered either in-camera with filters or with digital capture effects, developmentally or electronically.
Images manipulated through the use of toning, increased saturation or desaturation, selective sharpening and/or blurring, dodging and burning, cloning, blemish removal, correcting or reducing distortions, or adding film grain/noise are not eligible for entry. Images in which the focus or perspective have been manipulated by lens effects (ie. tilting, shifting, or swinging) are also not allowed. This includes, though is not limited to, bellow attachments, tilt shift lenses, etc. However, cropping and color to black & white conversions are acceptable as well as slight adjustments to levels/curves.’
here is the winning image from the wedding of yann and alex. ranked 3rd place in “ceremony” category
the Q1 contest was very special as it only allowed black and white entry. I always find B&W photo difficult to handle – once the color is removed, you ‘re forced to focus on the CONTENT of the photo (people ‘s expression, composition, lines and pattern, contrast .. …) You can see the judges ‘ comment here
» Continue reading simon.the.photo ranked as one of the top 20 wedding photographers in wpja 09 Q1 contest
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