Posting date: July 29th, 2010 | Category: engagement (pre-wedding), personal | it ’s summer time – a period that wedding photographers love and hate.
I feel so happy and relax now that I am going to have a break in next three weeks, no more photo shoot in next three weeks. finally, have time to relax, can spend more time with shulin (shulin is about to go to school, and I ‘ll accompany her in the 1st two weeks ‘ school time, so exciting !!!! after that, she has to attend class on her own)
To my surprise, my schedule was fully packed in last three months, the number of weddings and pre-weddings reached a record high during that time. I never expect there ‘re so many bookings as it was a low season during this period of time because of the hot and rainy weather and oversea pre-wedding shoot is so popular nowadays.
I ‘d like to express my thanks to all the clients that love my photo style, love taking pre-wedding in hong kong, and their love of the summer heat !!!
I also feel so lucky that all my clients are so unique, and have all the trust on me. here is the sneak preview of mr. and miss bunny ’s prewedding session.
locations: polytechnic university, Wan Yan College, shek O, central
makeup artist: amy ng from allure make up
my fav of the day !!!! I have this image in my mind for a long long time, I even drafted lighting diagram on paper. But I have to wait ….. wait for good timing, wait for great color of the sky, and the sea cannot be too rough …. …. and most important, have to wait for a suitable couple, trust me, I would not ask clients to do something that are not suitable for them. thank bunnies for helping me in this shot. And also special thanks for canly, you can’t imagine how difficult to set the light in water !!!
» Continue reading it is summer of love – mr and miss bunny
原來又好耐冇 update。可能係 世界盃啦。
寫呢篇文時， world cup 已產生最後兩強…西斑牙及荷蘭…兩隊都好好，真係唔知捧邊隊。
其實做 freelance 攝影師真係幾好，如果聽日冇 job，就幾夜開波都唔怕。不過我通常都一邊執相，一邊睇波（唔信你睇睇呢度）。
一路睇，就發覺強隊同弱隊真係可以好大分別… d弱隊好多時都錯失機會，比個空門你都射唔中，帶個波又帶唔好。一遇到逆境波，就踢到亂晒龍……
有時影相都好類似……個個攝影師都想靚人靚景，最好新娘靚到似 model。係網上看到有d行家批評客人唔合作，rundown 唔好，化妝師又唔合作，影相時間唔夠等等…… 其實有無諗過真正考驗攝影師實力就在此刻！與其埋怨客人，不如克服自已的不足！
幫 elizabeth 同 kenneth 影相當日，環境都非常差。在大潭開始時還可以，去到赤柱美利樓，影左一陣就開始落雨，重要果日唔知點解咁鬼多遊客，全部人就迫晒入美利樓避雨。在小小的空間，又咁多人，一時間我都有d慌張，真係唔知點影好。壓力總是自已比自已，因為感覺客人對 Simon 的其望很高，又覺得 simon 乜野地方都影到靚相 (我都希望係)。當時心裡不停叫自已 focus focus ，think think … …. 最後終於都克服到心裡那種慌張的感覺，唔理身邊d其他人，繼續影影影……
所以有人說：要超越的，不是別人，要超越的，是昨天的自已。
下面幾張就是在那小小空間影的相，出來的效果……可以啦，談不上甚麼佳作，但最重要克服自已的不足！
當時我地係遊客的流動景點呢
» Continue reading something new learned – elizabeth and kenneth
this was a challenge for me for pre-wedding session of cosette and ben
We didn’t go to University of HK on the day, instead we went to a student hostel in the Chinese University of HK . For the outdoor session, no stanley market, no shek O this time, we choose to go to the Ma On Shan Park. What about the night shoot? When we ‘re on our way to Central, we suddenly changed our plan and went to the Shatin Central park instead (OMG, I have never heard any other wedding photographers taking wedding photos there at night before)
I was worried before going to these three locations as I had never taken any pre-wedding photos there (and I don’t think I ‘d suggest them to my clients). Guess what!!!!! I got lots of new shooting ideas and lots of new photos on that day. What I learned this time — we really need to get out the safety and comfort zone sometimes, and take the risk, in order to get inspired. A very great experience for me !!!
make up artist: rainbow (tel: 92586602)
one of my fav photo taken at the Ma On Shan Park. Big thanks to cosette for trusting me. you can click here to go to my facebook fans page to see how I got this in ma on shan park
a comic book corner at the student hostel - both cosette and ben lived in this hostel when they studied in CUHK .
I felt very anxious before going there, as you can expect, there is few nice and beautiful spot in a student hostel like this. Having said that, this is the place at where I got the most interesting photos !!!! Feel very excited about it !!!
night shoot at Shatin Central Park
» Continue reading I was challenged by cosette and ben
Posting date: April 25th, 2010 | Category: My Blogs, baby, family photo, personal | My assistant canly left a message to me yesterday and reminded me that I haven’t updated the blog for over 1 month. I was really shocked !!!! I know it ’s long, but never imagine it ’s over 1 month already !!!!!
Last two months ‘re really busy (both business and personal). I have stopped shooting for two months since the birth of my 2nd daughter in February, yet the two little girls and all the photo post processing works kept me busy. Since entering April, the schedule was getting more and more crazy, packed with 3 to 4 weddings and pre-wedding sessions every week. The break in Feb / Mar just pushed everything into April … …
A few updates … …
My name is Shuyan (書恩)
Sorry to let you know late that my 2nd daughter was named Shuyan. A very lovely baby, but she doesn’t like to be alone, whenever she ’s awake and finds nobody next to her, she will start to cry. Once I sit next to her and start talking to her, she will stop crying and begins to smile. So lovely !!!!
photos of Shuyan and her Kung Fu sister.
shulin and her friends
How about shulin? she is no longer a little baby any more. She is a BIG girl now. Can’t imagine she can grow up so fast. Started to speak a lot in last two months, learned to count from 1 to 10, don’t like us to feed her any more, instead, she like to hold the spoon and eat by herself (of course, half portion of the meal is on the ground finally … …)
shulin and her friends .. … ah pooh, amanda and rabbit
something big happened last week … … we bought a new bed for shulin — a bed without fence. now she can climb up and get off the bed all by herself
Simon.the.Studio
Another big thing happened this month. I opened my own studio!!!! Everything happened very fast — it took less than one week from the day having an idea of my own studio, finding a property agent, looking for space to confirming the apartment.
I always thought it was a miracle that, without a studio, I could be able to shoot hundreds of wedding in last five years. Bring a 17″ laptop and meeting clients in coffee shop and cafe was not a easy task and not a very pleasant experience for all my clients as those places are getting more and more crowded and noisy. Really have to say big thank you to all the clients that trusted me and booked me in last few years.
I do think all my clients should have a better place for meeting me and seeing my works, the new studio is in SoHo, Central — a very pleasant location, especially at night, and very convenient for my clients (it is only 15 min walk from one IFC, along the mid level escalator) . With a fixed location, now I can show you more albums, more photos, and with a much bigger screen (there is a 110″ projector screen installed in the studio !!!!)
finally, let me update more wedding and prewedding photos in next few days !!!
the location of the studio at night
studio on google map
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 (wedding day), 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
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