Posting date: June 17th, 2011 | Category: engagement (pre-wedding), personal | In last two weeks, I was contacted by several wedding magazines for interview regarding my opinion on oversea pre wedding. So guess what? I turned down all these interviews finally. why? Oversea pre wedding is getting more and more popular in last two years, it’s so popular that it starts to become a COMMODITY. However, if you ‘ve followed my blog for a while, you may notice that I didn’t do any oversea pre-wedding session in last two years. As I always tell my client — first, location is the least important element in my photo, second, there are so many places in Hong Kong that are so beautiful, together with the additional time and money required for oversea job, I much prefer staying in hk for pre wedding.
I feel glad (and lucky) that there are still so many clients that love having pre-wedding photos in Hong Kong and always bring me lot of interesting locations – and kavy and ben are definitely one of them.
they both live in Ma Wan, so we started the shooting at the Ma Wan old village. The last time I was there was already four years ago. This is such a beautiful and quiet location that I love it very much, and it was just like a hiking that we walked around to look for photo opportunities — no specific route, no specific scenic point — that ’s the way of shooting that I love very much.
location: Home, Ma Wan old village, the peak, temple street.
make up artist: cherry from Makeup Rainbow
this is one of my fav photo of the day. this was shot at the peak and here is my thinking process behind this photo.
When I arrived, I saw a patch of light passing through the branches and I immediately thought it was a photo opportunity there. After asking kavy to stand under this light, the next thing that I needed to consider is what should kavy do to blend into the environment. When I take photo of the bride, I always think how I can do the best for her and what should be highlighted in the photo, it can be her eyes, her face, hair, the dress, the shoes, the body figure, the emotion, the smile …. … you name it, the possibility is just unlimited. In this case, I found kavy ’s dress (the back) look awesome, and I was thinking putting her back as the highlight of this pic. By positing her at the right location, with the light and shadow on her back, it gave us a very three dimensional look of her back and her figure. that ’s how this photo was created, all by available light only.
» Continue reading Our backyard garden kavy and ben
Posting date: May 2nd, 2011 | Category: personal | Hi everyone, do yo like to work with Simon in weddings? I am now hiring a part – time assistant working from May – Sept, 2011
if you have the following characters and abilities, you ‘re the one I am looking for
* Cheerful & out-going
* Prepare to carry equipments for me
* Can work under pressure — trust me, I can be very mad and crazy sometimes
* very FLEXIBLE on the working day (please expect to work on BOTH weekday and weekend)
* good command of english and cantonese
* knowledge of taking photo is NOT required
The part – time assistant ‘ll helps me in the following areas
* taking care of Simon photo session
* taking care of the wedding couple, may need to work VERY CLOSE to the bride
* taking care of all equipments
* setting up lighting equipments
* helping simon communicate with the clients
* shooting behind the scene photos on some occasions
If you are interested, please send me an email you information, working experience, recent photo, and expected salary (per day) to wedding (at) simonthephoto.com
有無興趣跟 simon 在婚禮中一起工作？ 我現正招請為期四個月(5月至9月)的兼職攝影助手
如你覺得自已
- 性格開朗
- 能夠應付笨重的攝影器材
- 不怕婚禮攝影工作的壓力
- 有星期六，日也要工作的心理準備
- 不需要有攝影知識
我相信你絕對可以應付道份工作。
至於攝影助手的工作範圍包括：
- 照顧客人，simon及simon的攝影器材
- 需要幫新娘整理衣服
- 預備燈光器材
- 跟客人溝通
- 間中亦要拿起相機影相
立即行動！！把你的個人簡歷，近照，要求工資(日薪) 電郵至 wedding (at) simonthephoto.com
Posting date: April 7th, 2011 | Category: My Blogs, engagement (pre-wedding), personal, video | With immediate effect, there will be an increase of my rate for wedding day video service. The new rate card was post here. If you have received my formal quotation of wedding day video this week, it is advised to settle the deposit before end of this week to entitle for the old rate.
I am sorry to tell you that there will be an increase of my rate for engagement (pre-wedding photo) session on 1st May, 2011 The new rate card will be released on May 1st , 2011. If you plan to hire me as your pre-wedding photographer, the old rate will be honored if you confirm the booking (with deposit arranged) before 1st May, 2011.
All bookings will be charged at the new rate afterward.
Posting date: February 23rd, 2011 | Category: personal | I was shocked and surprised when she.com contacted me and told me that I was nominated as one of the top wedding photographer in Hong Kong. Even though the feature is released on she.com today, I still can’t believe it. I feel extremely honored to be named with other top photographers as there are so many I still need to learn from them.
and also I need to give a big thank to all the trust and support that my clients gave to me, without them, I can never get any good photo by myself.
you can see the full story at she.com
Posting date: December 1st, 2010 | Category: personal, portrait | thanks for all your support. the result of 2010 Q3 ag.wpja conest just announced this morning, and I am pleased that I got two awards in the “creative portrait of Bride” category.
I didn’t enter any contest for more than a year already, so these two-awards is a good start for me. you can click my profile page at ag.wpja to see more informaiton
I always love entering the wpja contest as I found their images always very inspiring, so don’t miss to see the contest result for other winning images
Judges Comment: What an elegant portrait. The veil envelops the bride’s face beautifully and her arms are so delicately placed. Her peaceful smile, along with the subtle toning, makes this an exquisite photograph.
Judges Comment: This was a good attempt at a different type of portrait. The busy carpet does somewhat distract you from the bride and her gown.
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
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