Posting date: February 16th, 2010 | Category: engagement | Happy Chinese New Year. This is my 1st post after CNY.
After the birth of mui mui, these few days are very very tired. Not enough sleep, lots of home/baby tasks, non-stop photo editing … … Lucky that mui mui was born during the wedding low season (of course, it ’s planned), or I don’t know how to handle at all.
This is the e-session of janice and anson – the last assignment just before CNY. My 2nd time to have e-session in Macau. Is it a coincidence? Janice also prefers taking hotel indoor photos to outdoor locations, so, other than the 主教山小堂 Chapel on Penha Hill, we didn’t go to any Macau scenic locations.
I referred this e-session as macau hotel tour because we had arranged to shoot in all the new hotels – four seasons, MGM, Venetian … …
makeup artist: cherry from Makeup Rainbow (don’t miss to go to her blog to see the behind the scene photos from her)
four seasons at night. Love this shot !!! Thanks janice ’s patience for us, it was so cold and it took some time for us to set up the lightings. There ‘re a total of 4 lights. 3 of them for the umbrellas behind janice and another one for janice herself.
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Posting date: January 31st, 2010 | Category: engagement | yes, it ’s raining again during the e-session of donna and tony. After several raining e-sessions in last season, I found that there are so many photo opportunities during raining. Of course, I couldn’t make it without a client willing to take photo under rain. Special thanks to donna and tony, especially it rained so bad at night!!! I can still remember - the lower part of donna ’s dress got completely wet, the raindrops on all our faces, my assistant Canly holding the flash and listening to my shouting on the street. But we had a blast and the resulting photos are awesome !!!!!!
Three umbrellas, seven crazy persons. And YES, WE MADE IT (shouting on the street !!!!!!!)
locations: Tai Tam Reservoir, Stanley Market, military cemetery, Central
this one is my fav. The flower pattern, the blue light, the yellow shopping windows light, the reflection on the ground, the raindrops, and donna ’s facial expression. All work perfectly together !!!
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Posting date: January 22nd, 2010 | Category: engagement | “A story of a Teacher and a pilot” – that ’s how Michelle describes themselves on her blog.
I took this pre-wedding session early Jan. Taking pictures of them just likes having a picnic – . Both Joe and I drove our own car on the day, and Joe brought me to lots of interesting locations at where I had never took any pre-wedding photos before.
locations: university of polytechnics, Sunny Bay (Yam O), Hong Kong International airport
makeup artist: mandy lee
my fav bridal photo of michelle – a big lawn at sunny bay – one word: “GORGEROUS”
my fav photo of Joe – one word: “型”
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Posting date: December 9th, 2009 | Category: engagement | In my first meeting with cordelia and fred, cordelia had a very special request for me in their engagement photo session.
“Hi Simon, I have a special request … … “ asked cordelia.
“ yep, what ‘s that ?”
“I ‘d like to wear glasses in front of the camera, I just can’t get used to my look without glasses, it is not me!!” replied cordelia.
“No problem, why not?” I answered quickly.
However, after this quick answer. I am thinking if I had any other bride wearing glasses in their photo session – the answer is NO.
Did I see any similar bridal photo photo before on internet – the answer is NO.
sounds interesting and challenging, right?
HI cordelia and fred, thanks and see you soon again in your wedding in Jan 2010
locations: Central, Shek O, home
been to Shek O hundred times. No rush, no planned (or must have) shots required, the day was so relaxed and we just walked around in Shek O,
so happy that I could get this interesting shot at Shek O
Let me introduce the cordelia with glasses
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e-session of cordelia and fred
Posting date: November 24th, 2009 | Category: engagement | every year from sept to dec is the peak season for pre-wedding photos session (another peak season from mar to jun). The weather is always good and humidity is low. I went to stanley market, central, and the peak for location shooting on last weekend ‘s wedding (clara and thomas, tracey and danny), the sunlight was so beautiful and feel very comfortable walking around outdoor.
I shot zoe and jack ‘s pre-wedding session a few weeks ago, again, we had wonderful sunlight everywhere, you can see and feel beautiful sunlight in most of the photos below.
location: Inspiration Lake at disney station, pak nai, and Yuen Long Stadium
Don’t miss to click here to see the whole team of the day
my fav of the day at pak nai – one of the best location in Hong Kong for sunset shots
an interesting shot at the Yuen Long stadium. A little story behind.
Zoe loves running a lot, so she had an idea to take photos at the stadium. When we went there in the afternoon, to our surprise, there was a secondary school sport day, and we couldn’t take any photo inside. At that moment, I could feel that zoe was a little bit disappointed and not happy about it. Then we changed our plan to go to Pak Nai. After the sunset shot, we finally decided to go back to the stadium again, and could finally go inside. Honestly, I found the light there was even better at night.
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- zoe and jack
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
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– clara and kevin
Posting date: October 28th, 2009 | Category: engagement | I was always asked by client what kind of wedding I like the most.
big big wedding ?? six – stars hotel ?? oversea wedding ?? magnificent decoration??
after shooting hundreds of weddings in the last four years, I ‘d say these are not important to me any more. Instead, I just love to see my clients love my works, love my style of wedding photography. Nothing happier than seeing your clients loving you, right?
emmy and keith are definitely one of my favorite couple. Since the 1st meeting with emmy, I already know they are super fans of simon.the.photo, I am so looking forward to their photo session and can’t wait to share their photos on this blog.
So, how super fans they are ?? May be emmy can share it here … … I am too shy to say about it … ..
locations: 保良局李兆忠百周年中學 ，central
mua: rainbow (tel: 92586602)
thanks for getting me to your secondary school
at where they met and fell in love !!!
this is emmy
this is keith
» Continue reading back to school – emmy and keith
Posting date: September 21st, 2009 | Category: engagement | day and night, how time flies … …. I have been expecting to be the wedding photographer of lina for a long long time … … In fact, it is over xx years !!!!!! (Oh, I can’t tell how many years exactly)
I knew lina when she was a secondary school student and I was her bible teacher in church at that time. How time flies and she is going to marry next year !!!!
Hi Lina, hope you like this set of photos – a special gift for your wedding.
makeup artist: polly of faces hk
photo location: HKU, Shek O, Central (night)
one of my fav. Look at the dress, can you believe that we had a natural wind in the pic ??
our 1st location: HKU
» Continue reading day and night – lina and raymond
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