Posting date: June 26th, 2011 | Category: engagement (pre-wedding) |  the weather was not very stable recently, a lot of clients asked me the same question: “if the weather is not good, is there any indoor location that is good for photo shooting?” Honestly, other than shooting inside studio or hotel, I really have no idea of any public indoor location that is good for shooting under rain. Let me know if you know any of this place.
Even though I had shoot under very bad weather conditions before, but I really prefer to shoot under sunshine as there is too much pressure on the couple and it is difficult to protect the equipments when shooting under rain.
Cindy and Bennalt asked me the same question a few days before their prewedding session because the weather forecast was really bad. It turned out that it rained the whole day, and luckily, they made the decision to book a room inside the 1881 heritage [......]
Continue reading … … cindy.bennalt.1881.rain
Posting date: June 22nd, 2009 | Category: engagement (pre-wedding) |  If you come in to read this post because of the post title, I may disappoint you.
I get asked by so many clients if I can take good photos on a rainy day, the answer is yes and no.
I understand a lot of my clients love to see ” blue sky / white cloud / sun set ” in their engagement photos, if you expect these, I ‘d never be able to give you the same feel / style on a rainy day. There is nothing wrong with these expectation from clients, in fact, I find it much easier to take happy photo without the worry of having the dress, make-up, hair or equipments getting wet.
The weather in last three weeks ‘re so unstable that almost all the outdoor sessions ‘re postponed. I shot the session of gloria and vico three weeks ago, it was also a rainy day. The [......]
Continue reading … … how to take good photo in rain
- sneak peek of gloria and vico ’s e-session
Posting date: May 13th, 2009 | Category: engagement (pre-wedding) |  Though fiona loves the location of Student Hall of HKU so much, neither ben nor she studied in HKU before. you can imagine it is very difficult for them to go inside to take wedding photo
However, with her strong determination and lots of preparation works, we finally get a permission to go inside.
location: HKU and the U-hall, Stanley Market, Central
makeup artist: Man Chan of Miracle (her recent interview by esdlife)
the winding stair that she loves a lot
BTW, Canly helped me to take some behind the scene videos on the day, I have put them onto my facebook fans page, Don’t forget to become my fans if you haven’t joined yet.
Posting date: May 3rd, 2009 | Category: engagement (pre-wedding) |  never expect so many shootings in april and may, but my schedule is fully packed by engagement sessions in these two months.
I did venena and benedict ‘s session on last Thu and the weather was so nice that we all could get into the water finally (the water was still too cold in April). And the beach was so beautiful on the day – blue sky, sun set light, very smooth sand … …
nice couple – already look forward to their wedding in Nov.
locations: University of Hong Kong (HKU), Shek O, and Central (night shoot)
makeup artists: polly of faces hk
we all got wet from head to toe, so I asked verena to wave her hair in the air to get rid of the water and sand – that ‘s how I got this shot. My fav of the day !!!
Posting date: March 25th, 2009 | Category: engagement (pre-wedding) |  I am back !!!! such a long long time not updating the blog !!!!
charis and tsui-kit, the craziest and most energetic couple ever !!!! Never stopped shouting, running around, doing funny face and climbing (yes, climbing!!!) … … I strongly believe they both suffer from “hyperactive” problem !!!!! The later the day, the more energetic they were, they never felt tired.
The day after the session, Tsui Kit called me and said “Hey Simon, we had so much fun yesterday, let’s have another post-wedding photo session after our wedding in nov (2009)”, even though I knew he ’s kidding, I talked to myself 『唔好掛！你地太勁啦，我頂你地唔住呀！』
location: Shek O, the Peak, Hong Kong University Student Hall, Central
makeup artist: polly of faces
my fav photo of the day, I love taking photo of Charis, she gets beautiful face. And look like one TV actress (OK, you name it !!!) This was taken at the HKU student [......]
Continue reading … … the craziest and most energetic couple
- charis and tsui-kit
Posting date: February 19th, 2009 | Category: engagement (pre-wedding) |  this is a very special e-session I took last year.
First, when I have meeting with clients discussing the rundown of e-session, the most common topic is the choice of location. I always tell them that locations is the least important for my style of photography and make joke that we can even decide the location on the day of photo taking. Of course, it never happen until the session of karen and wanson. When we met in the morning and got onto the car, we ‘re still discussing where we should go. As they lived in NT, I finally suggested going to Luk Keng, Nam Sang Wai, and to Shek O (the most popular location for my clients) in the afternoon.
When we finished shooting at Nam Sang Wai and on our way to Shek O, I found that we didn’t have enough time and might not have any sunlight [......]
Continue reading … … better not to have a plan sometime,
e-session of karen and wanson
Posting date: November 25th, 2008 | Category: I-do (wedding day) |  a very common conversation with most of the clients
“we are so shy in front of the camera, we don’t know how to pose, and my fiancé doesn’t like taking photo, we ‘re so worry that we can’t have any good photo”, say the bride
“don’t worry, 9 out of 10 couple are shy in front of the camera. If you can relax, enjoy the day, enjoy the moment, it is not difficult for me to take good photo of you two.” say Simon. I believe all wedding photographers ‘d agree on that.
However, for nicole and allan, they are just the “1 out of 10”. Both Ken and I found that we can take good pic/video of them anytime, anywhere on the day. In fact, they are the first couple that eats up all my memory cards (a total of over 50GB CF card) in one day !!!!!
date: 18 oct 2008 [......]
Continue reading … … wedding of nicole and allan
Posting date: November 14th, 2008 | Category: wedding photographers, weddings |  This is definitely one of my fav wedding in Sept !!!! Not only I had a wonderful couple, wonderful wedding party, but a chance to work with a US award winning wedding photographer as well.
arron is a WPJA award winning wedding photographer from California and came to Hong Kong to shoot the wedding of Catherine and Kevin here. I got to know him because he hired me to second shoot with him for this wedding. (Sorry, I can’t post any photos of this wedding here … …) As he stayed in Hong Kong for a few days, I invited him to help shooting in one of my wedding, and it ‘s so inspiring to see a foreigner shooting a local Chinese wedding.
date: sept 27, 2008 ROM: wedding registry at Hong Kong City Hall BBQ reception: Royal View Hotel
one of my fav of the day. [......]
Continue reading … … simon.the.photo X arron willcox
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