Posting date: January 30th, 2012 | Category: I-do (wedding day) | Time flies, it’s already end of jan.
virginia and daniel, one of my fav wedding last season. Again, I shot alone on the day without 2nd photographer, which gave me more freedom of the day. Having said that, don’t get me wrong, even though I love working alone, every wedding is unique and some weddings definitely require 2nd photographer for handling all the formal shots requests.
ceremony and reception: repulse bay
make up artist: Zi Wan of violet
video: ken of simon.the.photo
My fav shot of the day. It’s a first dance photo, I always tell my clients that dance photos are the most difficult shots to take on a wedding day. Lighting is always very dim if not completely darkness, even there are spot lights at the venue, they are usually unpredictable in terms of ligh intensity, color, or how the hotel staff operates them. What makes it even more difficult is that you can never stage or setup dancing shots (that means you can’t ask the couple to hold or do it again, anyway, I hate taking staged shots).
I like this shot, it has very good timing, composition, and lighting. There ‘re three layers ….. the bride and groom, the parents,and the DJ in the background. Virginia and Daniel ‘re positioned one third of the photos that showed their importance. And the three layers also allow you to flow the focus from the couple to their parents and then to the DJ. While virginia closed her eyes and enjoyed the moment with daniel, the way that the parents looked at them gives a sense of connection between them. At the same time, the DJ behind worked very hard and it helps completing the whole story of this photo.
I had taken three photos of this particular shots and this one stands out with the best capture of the moment.
In terms of lighting, three off camera flashes were used, their locations, power, color were all planned carefully beforehand. The one thing I don’t like is the light on parents is too strong, though it can be fixed easily in post possessing.
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Posting date: January 19th, 2012 | Category: I-do (wedding day) | it was my great pleasure to be part of this beautiful wedding of janis and david in Macau last month. Everything was perfect — beautiful bride, friendly wedding party, and it was one of the sweetest catholic wedding I had ever shot.
getting ready: MGM hotel
ceremony: the Cathedral
love this moment during the ceremony – a beautiful shot of janis
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Posting date: December 13th, 2011 | Category: I-do (wedding day) | Finally got some time to update the blog today. My schedule was crazily packed in last two months, so busy that I had to stop all new client meetings and gave all the priorities to existing clients first. What made things worse, I got fever twice and toothache in this critical period, it’s really not fun to work when you’re sick and didn’t get enough time to rest ………. but this is part of the life that every wedding photographer has to live with ………
Having said that, there’re so many beautiful weddings and pre weddings in last two months. I wish I had more time to share all these happy and beautiful moments here ……
lily and charles, one of my fav wedding – a small but beautiful wedding – which is my most favourite style of works in my portfolio. Nothing rush, people ‘re friendly and I am the only photographer, no 2nd photographer running around.
ceremony and reception: The Hong Kong Country Club
video: Ken of simon.the.photo
one of my fav of the day – father and bride walking towards the ceremony venue, beautiful lawn, pretty line of the bridesmaids, and nice tree shadow. it’s always difficult to take a shot like this when working alone as you might risk missing other important shots because you ‘re too far away.
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Posting date: October 19th, 2011 | Category: I-do (wedding day), video | “Less is more” … … something that everyone knows but not too many people can really do it well.
It’s not uncommon a lot of people ask me question like this,
“there aren’t many interesting items or programsin my wedding rundown, I’m worrying there is not enough scene for you to take photo, is it ok for you?” … …
my answer is:
having more programs on your wedding day doesn’t mean you ‘ll have more beautiful photos. do you think you can relax and enjoy when your wedding day rundown is fully packed, I have seen so many couple that are completely exhausted even before the banquet because of the non-stop rundown. I always found that my most beautiful photos are always taken in those simple, but warm wedding
less is more, something that stephanie and alan aimed for. No game, no tea ceremony, we even didn’t have a chance to meet alan and his groomsmen before the ceremony. Everything happened inside the hotel, no travelling around and no rush at all. Having said that, with such a simple arrangement, I found that everyone was so relaxed and enjoyed the wedding a lot! And there ’s more touching and beautiful moments !!!!
ceremony and reception: grand hyatt hong kong
celebrant: michael lai
video: ken of simon.the.photo
make up artist: Bart Ko
here is their same day video edit … …. you ‘ll see what does “less is more” mean in this video
Posting date: September 27th, 2011 | Category: I-do (wedding day) | never thought that the peak season arrive so soon, schedule is fully packed in next few weeks. In order to maintain quality service to all my existing clients, I made a decision to stop meeting new client before end of Oct (details here) . Understanding that there may be loss of future business, but I think this is far more important giving the best to my clients than taking business.
I always hope to write about every weddings and pre-weddings photos here, but the fact is, it is getting more and more difficult for me. So, if you can’t see your photos here, don’t worry, there is nothing wrong with your photos, it is just because of my busy schedule.
Anyway, love to share the same day photo edit of the wedding of vicky and daniel here, which I did last week.
ceremony: bethanie chapel
reception: four seasons hotel hong kong
make up artist: polly of faces hk
celebrant: anthony lam
video: ken of simon.the.photo
here is the same day photo slideshow. slideshow is shortened for web display purpose.
Posting date: September 5th, 2011 | Category: I-do (wedding day) | Five years ago, when Ada recruited Kevin for her company, she never though this new colleague would turn out to be the another half of her life. As ada said, she thought office relationship was a joke, never imagined that she would find a life partner in the office.
After 5 years, ada, talent development executive of Ogilvy Public Relation, and kevin, now the agency’s digital strategy manager, married last month at the HKCEC. As kevin said, ada is always a happy, creative and positive person, and it was truly reflected from all the details of their wedding – the bright and vivid color theme, the wedding montage, the colorful candy corner, the funny photo corner (click here to have a look of the photo corner), and last but not least, her hip-hop performance in the banquet, everything was just awesome! !!!!
Our schedule in the afternoon was very flexible, instead of going outdoor for location shooting, ada decided going back to their office, what a great idea!!!!! Nothing better than taking wedding photos at where they met each other and fell in love.
banquet: HKCEC
make up artist: elaw @ The look studio
one of my fav of the afternoon photo session. love the red color, isn’t it matched to the color theme of the wedding? the inclusion of the company name does link everything together in the photo
BTW, extraordinary couple gets extraordinary coverage. They sent some of the photos to SCMP and their wedding was featured on almost a full page coverage on SCMP, awesome !!!! Don’t miss to click the image to read more about their true office love story
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Posting date: August 29th, 2011 | Category: I-do (wedding day) | It ’s a joy taking photos of the wedding of Jessica and Ronny. Not only I have a beautiful and cheerful bride, Jessica , but also the wedding ’s full of fun as well. As Ronny is a senior management of a record company, there ‘re lots of singers and celebrities as their guests in the wedding.
ceremony: Bethanie Chapel
reception: Harbour Grand Hong Kong
having Hacken and Alan on stage giving “special blessing” to the newly wed.
It’ s really 『左麟右李』
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Posting date: August 23rd, 2011 | Category: I-do (wedding day) | Many of my photographer friends and clients asked me why all my weddings are full of touching moments and did I ask or pose them to create the shots?
I think all my clients are smart enough to tell if a photo is posed or captured in a candid way, aren’t they? Yes, I do pose my clients when I am taking portraits of them as I need to do the best for the brides and make sure they look absolutely gorgeous in my photos. However, for wedding day photos, I just hate staged or setup shots. IMHO, touching moments are everywhere in a wedding, you just need to have a correct mind set, experience and technique to “SEE AND CAPTURE” it. On the other hand, if a photographer just tried to create (or even setup) the moments all the time, with this mind set, he (or she) will never see the real touching moment, or even he see it, he will miss that shot, or capture it with wrong composition, wrong lighting, wrong angle. What is worse … … his photos will turns out very similar (or boring, from my perspective) for the different wedding because he tried to create similar shots in every wedding.
Having said all that, back to peggy and raymond. “love is everywhere” – this is how I describe their wedding.
ceremony and reception: island shangri la
one of my fav of the day: mother and daughter
» Continue reading love is everywhere peggy.raymond
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