Posting date: June 17th, 2011 | Category: engagement (pre-wedding), personal | - (Comments are closed) 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.
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Posting date: May 18th, 2011 | Category: engagement (pre-wedding) | - (Comments are closed) if you follow my blog for a long time, you should know that I am pretty much a woman photographer. i would say more than 80% of my photos focus on the bride only, even my wedding day photo, the approach is documenting everything happening around the bride.
you may not agree, but I always think that wedding is all about the bride, nothing else.
having said that, it’s surprising that, I have several clients recently that the groom really like playing an “active role” in the photos. Sometimes I really feel that the guy has more concern of his outlook and appearance than the bride does. hahahaha…….. And Jonathan is definitely one of them. This is a good thing for sure ….. ….. at least I can feel that he is very serious about the quality of the wedding photos, doesn’t like other guys that just help the brides pay the fee, then don’t care about anything of the wedding. :-)
make up artist: man chan
locations: 1881 heritage, Tai Tam Reservoir, military cemetery, stanley market
wow !!!!! this is jonathan !!!!!
and this is helena.
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Posting date: April 7th, 2011 | Category: engagement (pre-wedding), My Blogs, personal, video | Comments are closed 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: March 16th, 2011 | Category: engagement (pre-wedding) | - (Comments are closed) Since I first met fiona and danny March last year, I was looking forward to their pre-wedding session for a long long time. They ‘re such a sweet couple that every wedding photographer would love to take photo of them.
Don’t believe in me, you can see the photo below. this is a photo I got at our first meeting, hahaha, I am still keeping it in my mobile. I didn’t open my studio yet at that time, and we were still meeting in a cafe inside IFC.
Have you ever got any client like this in your meeting??? I think I am lucky to have sweet couple like this as my client.
» Continue reading nothing sweeter than fiona and danny
Posting date: March 1st, 2011 | Category: engagement (pre-wedding) | - (Comments are closed) both annie and angus ‘re working abroad and seldom stay in Hong Kong, so they don’t have any idea where to have their pre-wedding photo taken when they ‘re back to Hong Kong last dec. If you remembered, the old Central police station was opened to public last dec, so I suggested this location to them. Finally, I did pre-wedding session at this location three time last year, and annie and angus ‘s session was the last one, which I love the photos very much. Hope you enjoy.
location: old central police station, Sheung Wan, Stanley military cemetery, star ferry and Central
make up artist: polly of faces makeup studio
my fav of the day
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Posting date: February 25th, 2011 | Category: engagement (pre-wedding) | - (Comments are closed) one of the sweetest couple I have ever met!!!!! I can still remember when we finished taking photos at Shek O after sunset, Canly, Polly and I ‘re playing on the beach and taking photo of ourselves. Suddenly, we found that we lost them … … Guess what ??? We finally found them kissing each other at a corner of the beach!!! OMG!!!!! Soooooooooo Sweeeeeeeet !!!!! Not to mention all the little moments of the day, I got a strong feeling that we ‘re not taking pre-wedding photos, instead, it looked like they just started dating each other
So you can imagine it was really a joy taking photo of them!
locations: university of hong kong, Tai Tam, Shek O, Central
make up artist: polly of faces
1st location: HKU
a lot of people asked me if I feel bored always shooting at the same location. Let me tell you something first. Before I became a wedding photographer, I spent lots of time taking landscape photos. that ‘s the period I learned the basic of photography and learned seeing light. One thing that I remembered from other masters was, in order to take good landscape photo, you have to understand the place, spend time to observe it, love it.
I think it is the same for location shooting in Hong Kong … … if you start to say that there is nothing to take good photo in Hong Kong, you better ask yourself if you ‘ve spent enough time to understand the place, to observe it. Even though I ‘ve been to HKU lots of time, the more I go there, the more new photo opportunities I find. Take the following photo as an example, this is my first time to see this natural light on this wooden door, it ‘s so beautiful, but at the same time, I could see that the light and shadow kept moving very fast, so I quickly get alison to get this shot. Within 15 min, the light moved out of the door. A lesson learned, isn’t it?
BTW, don’t miss seeing the mobile phone version of this photos by clicking here
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Posting date: February 9th, 2011 | Category: engagement (pre-wedding) | - (Comments are closed) this is my third time shooting pre-wedding inside at the hullett house of 1881. as all three clients booked different style of suite, it ‘s still looked very new to me. lizzie and alan this time had booked the silvermine suite, which is entirely white in color floor to ceiling. With the four big windows, there are plenty of available light throughout the whole suite.
together with the white dress, this set of photos is “white on white” in color.
in terms of lighting, other than the last three photos, most of the other photos were done with available light only, only four of them, flash ‘re used. which four do you guess?
one of my fav of the day.
this one was shot at the bathtub inside the bathroom
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Posting date: January 28th, 2011 | Category: engagement (pre-wedding) | - (Comments are closed) a very interesting and challenging photo session … ….
first, when I arrived at the inspiration lake in the morning (phoebe and julian ‘re still on their way to the park),it was so surprising that the place was already packed with lots of students. Looked like the day was a picnic day for lots of schools and the park was very popular for school picnic. Within two seconds I uploaded the photos below to my facebook page, phoebe already left message to me and asked if we need to switch location. you can imagine how difficult to find a quiet place that day … … But I always tell my client that location is not important for me, and I am always looking for color, abstract pattern instead of wide angle landscape in my photos, then, let ‘s give it a try
second, when they arrive, the 1st thing that julian told me was “No need to take photo of him”. don’t get me wrong, Julian was a very nice person, but he just really not enjoying any wedding photos at all. hahaha, it may be a big challenge for lots of photographers, but not a big problem for me, as I am always a woman/bride photographer, LOL … …
the day went very well finally, as the park ‘s very big, we could still manage to find places for photo shooting, and it’s not bad, it forced me to look for alternatives and explore new photo spots.
Julian is much better than what he told me, and phoebe has a very cheerful personality that it’s really a joy taking photo of them. anyway, I will be shooting their wedding at bali later this year, so looking forward to it !!!!!!
location: inspiration lake at disneyland, wetland park, kam tin, central
make up artist: lesley ho from texure workshop
1st locaton: inspiration lake
photos from my mobile … … OMG … …
found a quiet spot for this photo. not too bad, isn’t it?
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