My answer is always, “for my photo shooting style, location is not important at all. shooting wide in pre-wedding session is not my favorite, instead, I am always looking for light, abstract details and emotions before looking at the background”

when I posted on my facebook that HKU is under renovation last month, I got lots  of emails and messages from clients that expressing their worries that it ’s not good to take photo there. My answer to them, ” don’t worry, it ’s going to be OK”

trust me, the background of a location is the least factor for me to consider. With a happy couple (this is more important for me), good lighting  and imagination, everywhere is possible for  good photos.

again, there is no limit, the limit is only your imagination.

location: HKU, Central SoHo, Shek O, Central (night shoot)
makeup: polly of faces hk

big challenge. Can you believe that it was taken at a building renovation site at HKU????

one more

the behind the scene shot (more bebind the scene shots at my facebook page)

1st stop: HKU

funny couple !!!

I did a few special ring shots on the day

2nd stop: soho central, gettting changed at my studio

3rd stop: shek O

another special ring shot

beautiful sunset light !!!!

the yoga master !!!!

last stop: central

nice dress !!!

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

雨終於停了，馬上出去影多幾張

第一站：大潭

軍人墳場，其實當時已經無落雨，不過都天黑黑，天陰陰，所以所有相都要落燈

最後一站：中環

this post is going to tell you the works involved in this photo. It took me  a total of  10 min to shoot it and lots of processing works are required.

this is the photo that was shoot without lighting and post processing. very nice decoration, but it looks very flat and boring in terms of lighting in the photo. 

Go ahead to see what works are involved to make it look more interesting

to make the photo look more dramatic, I did add some lighting to the flower poles. But how could I add lighting to all 10 flower poles at the same time??? No, I didn’t add light to them all at the same time, instead,  I set the camera on tripod and have my assistant Canly to hold the “off camera flash” to illuminate different parts at different exposures.  During the post processing works, I overlap all 21 photos , “extract” different parts of each photo and “combine” them into one photo. Some buring, dodging and sharpening are done in post processing.

Canly, thanks for your great help !!! Without your great works, I ‘ll never get so many great photos for my clients.

IF YOU LIKE THIS PHOTO, DON’T FORGET TO LEAVE COMMENT BELOW AND SAY HI TO CANLY. THANK YOU.

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

our 1st stop : Ma On Shan Park

our 2nd stop: Chinese University of HK

I did a lot of this kind of top shot recently

other interesting shots inside the hostel

it was taken outside a room that Ben lived before

our unplanned last stop: Shatin Central park.
seldom taking this kind of wide landscape shot (can you find them in the photo?)

can you imagine this is a spot in  shatin ??????

if you like these photos, don’t miss to see other “behind the scene shots” at my facebook page

You may notice there are several wedding locations/venues got very very popular among my clients.

for reception venue, AMC, four seasons, peninsula, island shangri la and repulse bay are the most popular

for church, bethanie chapel, St. Margaret church – almost go there once every week during the peak season.

Shooting at the same location every week is a good and bad thing – you get very familiar with the places, but easily get bored at the same time. To avoid getting bored, I ‘ll try my best to get a few new and creative shots every time, if I can get 2-3 new shots on the day, then I am satisfied, and don’t have pressure at all for the rest of the day. 2-3 new shots may sound too less for you, but please remember, we may have over 20 weddings in a month during the peak season, that translates to creating 40-60 new shots in a month, it ’s pretty challenging in fact.

here are the 2-3 new shots in the wedding of vivian and vincent.

ceremony: bethanie chapel
reception: four seasons hotel hong kong

love love this shot !!!! with this camera position, I always scared that I would fall onto the bride one day (touch wood !!!). the wedding ceremony was at 1200pm, so the chapel was very bright with diffused light from all directions. One flash (just outside the top of the photo) was used to create the dramatic lighting of this portrait. The challenge here is to confine the light to the bride only

another off camera flash shot, flash was just outside the top right corner of the photo.  To make it look like a window light from the top of the chapel, had to position the flash very very high.  Also have to balance the color, size and direction of the light very carefully to make it look natural.

another fav of the day. Here is the corridor connecting four seasons and the podium of IFC. There is a big mirror with very beautiful pattern. I tried to challenge myself to shoot in front of the mirror, but without seeing my image in the mirror reflection.

some of my fav shots in the morning

Oh !!!!!

vivian is a happy bride, isn’t she?

ceremony at bethanie

so much in love

congratulations

thanks everyone ’s help to get this shot done

a few other portraits after the ceremony. I put a flash outside the window to create the “sunset” look.

reception at four seasons

nice backdrop and evening dress

same day video edit

lots of happy moments !!!!

This photo session was done last month and guess what? The new baby will arrive on this coming Friday! God bless Ruby, Simon and their family.

makeup artist: KK Chan

I ‘d like to share some photo techniques I used in this session. Everyone loves to have sunlight in their photo session, but unfortunately, it doesn’t always happen. In that case, I may use flash to create the feel of sunlight in some of the photos. Look at the photo below, ruby was walking under a “beautiful sunset light”, but, in fact, the day was very cloudy (with little rain), and the color temperature had a blue cast. Two off-camera flashes were used to create the light, you can click the link below to see the detailed set up.

ruby and baby walking under “beautiful sunset light” – created by flashes

the truth was: it was a cloudy day.

thanks KK for taking this behind the scene shot for me

Here is the lighting diagram
two off camera flashes ‘re set up. One was put in a 28” softbox at camera right. Another one was put behind ruby at camera left. I intentionally put the second one very close to the edge of the photo so that we could see some flare from it. Both flashes ‘re CTO gelled to give the warm look

Most of the other photos ‘re shot at home.

knew KK for years, but didn’t know she is also good at drawing

I love this one – very warm

both ruby and simon are football fans

another fav of the day

Ruby, 加油，加油，加油，加油，加油，加油 ！！！

I love the idea that they preferred to have the night shoot at home instead of going to those popular places. What a great idea, especially during the summer time !!!! We could have a can of coke during the shooting.

locations: Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), Shek O, Home

joey, stephen and their babies.
This pic was done by 3 flashes (one for joey, one for stephen, and one for the background). If I could do it again, I would use one more flash so that the background was more “white” (you can notice that the background is not pure white on the left)

they are music players. Lovely !!!

1st stop: CUHK
as alumni of CUHK, we need to do a shot in front the logo.

2nd stop – shek O

Though having been to Shek O hundreds of time, every time if we had time to walk around, always surprised to find some new interesting place and angle

love this shot

cute couple, aren’t they

we met lawrence at Shek O, and grabbed his client (alison and kyle) together to get this shot !!! Thanks Thanks.

magic sunset light !!!

almost impossible to get this shot if you look at the the following photo below (the beach was fully packed). Thanks  my assistant  canly Siu B for helping me to clear up this little area !!

congratulations !!!!

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.

but, in fact, the light was created by a large  softbox held by Canly (as you can see in the 2nd photo). In the 3rd photo, the flash is off, and Hugo ‘s face was in shade actually. There was sunlight in the photo, but the sun was at the opposite side of the camera and it gave a rim light to hugo. The tricks here are , we have to control the power, the color and softness of the flash carefully, so that it can mix with the sun light well and make the light look natural.

more other techniques will be shared in next few posts. Any comment is welcome.

But when I know my friend gracy of JustGracy was going to have a new series of advertisement and portfolio, I don’t have any hesitation to be part of this project.

Before the shooting, we discuss on the style and both of us like to have a clean and simple style of big head shots. It is always a challenge to do big head shots as it requires more detailed lighting setup, but I like the results a lot.

We had lots of fun on the day, with 3 models, 3 makeup artists, with lots of different lighting setups. Non-stop shooting from 1100-1900, awesome!!!

Here are some of fav shots of the day, and any comment is welcome.

You can also visit JustGracy for more other photos and my facebook fans page for the “behind the scene” shots

model karen, styling by Gracy

model maymei, styling by Jessica

model pamela, styling by Elaine

the professional team

Hi Cherry and Freddy,

I love you and thanks for your support and trust !!!!

ceremony: st. andrew ‘s church
reception: langham place hotel

so happy that freddy can fly … …

I said “happy bride, happy bride”

then I said, “beautiful bride, beautiful bride”

let ‘s go , baby !!!

before going to church, I had a one hour bridal portrait at the railway museum

that one is cool !!!

cherry ‘s ready, waiting for the start of the ceremony

the church was fully packed with friends

a view of the church from the back

listening to the choir … … remember to smile

I do, I do

Hey, how ‘re the rings ??

not only we had happy couple, but happy bridesmaids as well.

congratulations

the happy and funny bridesmaids

a few bridal portraits after the ceremony

the bouquet toss … …

cherry loves this dress, so we tried to shoot a few portrait with it, before guest coming

behind the scene – two off-camera flashes ‘re used for the above photo, one (CTO gel and held by canly) shoot through white umbrella on camera right, another one (CTB gel) held by Ken on camera left and shoot through a plant (sorry, couldn’t remember where ken got it) to create the blue pattern on ceiling

It was the wedding of winnie and marcus, around 6:00pm, everyone was taking a rest to prepare for the cocktail. Not many guest at the cocktail area, so I took the time to take some shots of the decoration. After taking a few shots of the (blank) backdrop, I ‘d like to add some elements to it to make it more “alive”. So I set up the camera on tripod and WAIT for something to happen in front of the backdrop. In fact, I was anticipating children running around (it is not uncommon, is it?). After 1-2 min, a waiter walked across and I got the 1st shot below. I love it, better than a blank backdrop and it looked more interesting. After a few min., nothing interesting happened, my assistant Canly asked me “ What are you waiting for?” , “ waiting for something unexpected” I answered. the very second I said this, to my surprise, winnie finished changing wedding dress and walked across the backdrop — Wow, that ‘s how I managed to get second shot below.

So, do you think it is by anticipation or by luck to get this photo ??

venue: Grand Hyatt Hotel, Hong Kong
video: ken of simon.the.photo

happy bridesmaids

marcus !!!

awesome team !!!

winnie and parents waiting inside for marcus

the tea ceremony

getting ready:  another fav shot of the day

ceremony at Grand Hyatt Hotel.

marcus, you may kiss the bride now

another nice backdrop

a bird eye ‘s view

watching the same day video edit (prepared by ken)

first dance

what a beautiful dance !!!

let’s dance !!!

Hi Terry, we had to say “We love you too !!!!”

locations: St. Stephen College, Shek O, Central (night shoot), does it really care?

we started the session at St. Stephen college, stephen, thanks for bring us here.

the above photo was done by one off-camera flash (shooting through a white umbrella) to make it look like a classroom lighting

guess what? we met a group of students on the campus and they ‘re playing musical instruments. Thanks for playing the “Canon in D minor” for them!! So romantic !!!!

other amazing photos in the classroom

2nd location: Shek O

one of my fav of the day

3 rd location: Central (but does it really care for my style of night shooting)

many people asked me why I cried ( after shooting hundreds of wedding in last few years), I would say I was really moved by what roger said to his father at the end of the two-days wedding.

I was so close to them and could hear what he say, and that ’s what really made me cry.

take a look at the following slideshow, not only me, everyone cried … ….

after seeing the sentimental side of the wedding, the day was also full of fun and surprises.

roger prepared a surprise to vivian before the first dance, in roger ‘s introduction video, he said ” Hi everyone, I am roger, 26, I am a teacher …. …. and I don’t know dancing …. …” What surprised everyone was that roger prepared a hip hop dance performance for vivian. No one knew about it (OK, Ken and I knew a little bit, we got notified that roger is going to dance, but we didn’t know what kind of dance, and we didn’t have rehearsal neither).

Starting from knowing nothing about dancing, roger kept learning and practising for 6 months before the wedding day. How good was the dance? take a look at the following video (prepared by ken)

amazing, isn’t it? back to the photos, it was very challenging to capture the dance shots, it was dark (btw, who turned off the hotel spotlight ) and  motion was fast. To capture the following shots, I had set up 3 off-camera flashs on the site – two on light stands and one (with a 8 degree grid) on a lighting stick held by Canly. Canly did a great job as she needed to keep aiming the flash to roger while he was moving around and had to adjusting the flash power at the the same time. Here are the resulting photos, I love them so much !!!!

cool !! my fav of the day for roger

the first dance

ceremony: the peninsula hotel Hong Kong, garden suite
reception: Intercontinental Hotel Hong Kong (day 1) & Kowloon Shangri-la (day 2)
make up artist: gracy of JustGracy
video: ken of simon.the.photo

the boys in the morning

vivian – getting ready at home

ready for the ceremony at peninsula – garden suite

the ceremony

roger, you may kiss the bride

a happy moment

let’ s have some fun, boys and girls

reception at intercontinental

my fav of the day for vivian

a lovely video prepared by them

what about vivian ‘s surprise. she prepared a basketball player balloon for roger. Why basketball? you can take a look at their e-session photos to see why

speech by father

watching the same day video edit prepared by ken

let ‘s celebrate !!!!

congratulations !!!!!

a quick update of myself in the 1st two weeks of 2009. The first thing I had in 2009 was : I got a flu !!!!! I was feeling sick and had a very bad cough. I got 6 weddings and pre-wedding shoots in these two weeks and it ‘s a challenge for me to work when I kept coughing all the time. It ‘s getting better and better now, hopes no more cough before the wedding on coming Sunday.

another beautiful wedding I ‘d like to share with you. This is the wedding of Loretta and James on the Christmas Eve. Not a big wedding, but everyone was so nice and friendly on the day.

When I first met James in the morning, my first impression was: this guy really had a very good taste of dressing!!!! Then I learned later that Loretta worked in the fashion industry – and she choose all the cloths, tie, shoes … .. for him. Lucky man, isn’t he?

We did a same day photo slideshow at night, my assistant Siu B helped me to create this slideshow. He did a very good job and everyone loved  it. This is the first time to show a same day photo slideshow on this blog.

date: 24 dec 2008
ceremony and reception: Plateau (the pool house) of Grand Hyatt
video: ken of simon.the.photo

I love this venue very much. I got some free time before the reception and took the beautiful shot of the venue. This is a kind of “multiple exposure” shots (with some Photoshop manipulation).
I used a off-camera flash to illuminate different parts (tables and flowers) on different exposures and merge it into one photo. You can see the shots of individual exposure here.

the same day photo slideshow

share this wedding with your friends

two people from two different worlds – a HK born half chinese half Korean/Japanese girl and a HK guy, like to see the future of themselves, so they join a Chinese face-reading class a few years ago, at where they met each other and fell in love.

date: 4 jan, 2008
ceremony and reception: Four Seasons Hotel Hong Kong

my fav photo of the day. while I was taking a shot of the ballroom, it was so lucky that Nina was just walking back to the bridal room and made it more than just a ballroom shot. I tried a new concept here which was inspired by another great wedding photographer Matt Adcock

get ready in the morning. Love this pic — crowded, a little bit of messy, but every bridesmaids are happy

a beautiful bride, isn’t she?   MUA is Yvonne, and also thanks for her referral

super 大妗姐 mary 姐 、nina and her doggy

nina and her mother

look at james!!! everyone enjoyed a lot during the games

hi hi !!!

we are leaving for james ’s family

the happy bridesmaids

Let’ s go !!!

change into wedding gown @ four seasons hotel

we got 30 min portrait session before the ceremony. this is my another fav of the day

even though this was a portrait session, they looked so natural in front of the camera

terry of one shot production was directing them … …

for filming at the long staircase

the ceremony

Roy (James ’s friend) prepared a slideshow for nina and james  with the songs "when I am 64" from Beatles, and some funny photos & animations. What a great idea!!!

happy toasting time

nina ’s cousin from Japan (Keiko) played a song to the newly wed.

same day video edit from One Shot. An awesome video !!

Congratulation!! This is a beautiful wedding, and thanks for inviting me.
click the photo to see who is who

thanks anissa and peter for inviting me as your wedding photographer.

date: 29 dec, 2007
ceremony: Yan Fook Church
reception: Eaton Hotel

my fav photo of the day – at anissa parent ’s apartment
- an ordinary location with extraordinary sunlight
 

get ready in Eaton Hotel — Anissa and her best friends Holy (the maid of honor)

the wedding gown has very pretty details

what a beautiful  bride

We ‘re leaving for Anissa ’s family, when the door of the elevator opened, I found there was very beautiful light from outside and captured this moment

so pretty

when Peter met Anissa

details of the Chinese dress

the train of the dress was stunning !!!

Did I mention that Peter loves singing a lot — he was singing to Anissa. I remembered it was a song from Jacky Cheung

changed into wedding gown

before the ceremony, we had 45 min free time and we had a photo session on the Kadoorie Road

ceremony. Peter was singing to welcome the arrival of the bride

Yan Fook Church at Cheung Shan Wan

kissing the bride. I love the way Peter kissing — a very very gentle kiss

Let ’s welcome Mr. and Mrs. Wong

the church ’s full of their friends and families

another pair of bride and groom?

the childhood slideshow. Love the expression of the grand parents

waiting for the march in

another fav of the day — the long staircase is very unique for ballroom of Eaton Hotel, I took the risk to take the photo at their back and tried to include as many guests as possible. You can click on the photo to see my thinking process

Peter was making Anissa cry again

This table was their special friends from the "hong kong outstanding students’ association". They prepared an album for anissa and peter, with photos from them

the peter ’s way of kissing anissa

the farewell time

BTW, Clement, your honeymoon photos at the “South Pole” are awesome !!!!

date: dec 12, 2007
ceremony and reception: peninsula hong kong, garden suite
makeup artist: Caroline of seasoning

my fav of the day. So unique for hong kong, you can’t find it elsewhere in the world. This was taken when we went to clement ’s family. Some effect was added, you can click the image to see my explaination

same place — another shot

in the morning — the happy clement

the game — clement was requested to sing a song of “Arron Kwok”, with dancing of course. Do you know what the song is by looking at the dance?

throwing rice

getting ready — a happy moment with the bridesmaids

pretty tiffany

a photo session at the “後樓梯”. again, you can click the image to see how I get this picture

behind the scene by “siu B”

As clement ’s living at the top floor, we went to the roof to find some more interesting locations

Another interesting place (behind the scene by siu B). Guess what does the final photo look like? Oh, BTW, I think I have “problem” for my hair  … …

then, we went to Central. First time to see this beam of light, I didn’t notice it before … … look like a natural spot light

nice location with nice background

At the peninsula, garden suite. preparing for the ceremony.
Tiffany ’s parents and her best friends

the ceremony. I really love the way Tiffany entering with both of her parents

the ceremony

So lovely …. …

“Thank you Tiffany”, said Clement

A very nice place for reception !!!!

What a wonderful landscape for reception !!!

Another lovely photo of tiffany

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

We ‘re in Central in the afternoon. There ‘re a lot of nice locations here. It is a corridor outside a café

Nice background

I always love to shoot in front of graffiti

beautiful rim light from the sun behind

Even though we only had 30 min of sunlight on the beach, it didn’t stop them enjoying the time

show me your feet !!!!

cute bum

it was almost completely dark here, we used a video light to highlight the texture of the wall

After the banquet, they invited me to take some photos in their hotel room. I loved it very much and it was very romantic with only two of them in the room (with some nice music as well). We took pictures until 1:30 am. This pic was taken in the bathroom and used a down light for illumination.

In the morning. A mirror image of Joan. She looks great !!!!

It was a happy day

When we ‘re waiting at the lift lobby, we used a light box here to take a few shots for Joan

I love this "behind the scene" mirror shot taken by Esther. Thanks Esther.

They had the wedding at Rosary Church

Hi Joan, can you show me your dress?

After the ceremony, we went to the hotel (Harbour Plaza Hong Kong). To our surprise, thought it was 3:00pm already, the room ’s not ready yet !!!  So we had to wait at the hotel lobby for a while. While Nelson was working on that, I took a few shots at the lobby. Joan was doing great, she is always ready in front of the camera

"the making of". Instead of the messy background, we used Joan ’s dress to create a nice backdrop for the photo above

Nice decoration

I love this picture. They ‘re waiting outside the reception

Congratulations !!!!

Ceremony – Methodist International Church, HK
Reception – Harbour Plaza Hong Kong

They have one of their friends designing the graphics of their invitation card, food menu, reception tables …. ….

Sylvie ’s mother is helping her

A nice shot

Going to church, I like the details of the dress in this shot. They ‘re having the ceremony at Methodist International Church, HK

Mr and Mrs. Choi !!!!!

Nice color of the Bridesmaids dress. The bridesmaids ‘re talking to their friends in 2nd row. Thanks Ken for finding this scene for me.

the wedding party

We did some portrait in church before we left. I was trying a new concept. Esther helped me putting a flash above them to light up the veil. We only had 2-3 minutes to setup this shot, if we had more time, we could have adjusted the angle of the flash better and make the veil look nicer in shape.

After we ‘re arrived at the hotel, the weather outside was so hot that everyone stayed inside the room. So we took some portraits inside the room. This shot was taken inside the bathroom with all lights turned off. The lighting was done by one video light

Got excited !!!!

Millan ’s parents. Mr. Choi ’s speech was one of the most funniest one I have ever heard

Happy Sylvie

Wonderful !!!! They ‘re singing and dancing.

Congratulations from crew of simon.the.photo