I believe I am a lucky wedding photographer – always have very nice client, friendly wedding parties and families, beautiful and gorgeous brides at beautiful locations
As you know, in Hong Kong, we have two big fireworks show over the Victoria harbour every year (one is on the 2nd day of Chinese new year, the other is on the 1st of Oct National Day).
In 2009, we had three fireworks show because of the 2009 Asian games opening on Dec 6th.
nothing ‘s luckier than the year of 2009, I had outdoor weddings in two of the fireworks shows and was able to watch the show very close at a very comfortable location. Jennifer and Fan ‘s wedding ‘s one of the two. The couple came from Shanghai to have their wedding in Hong Kong, with only their best friends and close families ‘re invited.
ceremony: Bethanie Chapel
reception: sevva, Central
makeup artist: Man Chan of Miracle
To be honest, I am not very good at shooting fireworks as I didn’t shoot any fireworks before in Hong Kong and tried to avoid the crowded places. Luckily, the photos turned out good, IMHO.
sevva, a very nice location!!!
» Continue reading wedding of jennifer and fan – nice couple from Shanghai
on arrival at the church. Karen was still in the limo, with the reflection of the bridesmaids on the window. My fav photo of the day
the whole day summary prepared by tomoko. A brief introduction of tomoko: she joined my team since last year. Prior to joining us, she has been working with NHK for years and with experience producing over hundred documentary films before. I really love her style – documenting a wedding, with lots emotions and details.
don’t miss to go to my facebook fans page to see the “making of” video (with the help of 5d mk II)
BTW, the blog software was upgraded in last few days (you shouldn’t notice any difference at the moment), with the upgrade, I can add more interesting features to this blog later. Thanks Kaiser ’s help on the upgrade. If you find any misbehaviour of this blog, pls let me know so that we can correct it asap.
like the color, the pattern and lines.
the dream team !!!!
» Continue reading let ‘s have some fun – wedding of gigi and jason
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 story began on a Christmas night … Kevin went to the Christmas ball at the University of Hong Kong (HKU), the second he found fiona, he already knew she ’s the one of his life. The love inside pushed him to make a "first move" — inviting a girl to dance … ….
Did the love story start like this? … … probably not. Fiona didn’t give him a chance, walked away and left the poor Kevin in the dark.
After that night, Kevin couldn’t forget Fiona ’s face, he got help from his friends in HKU to find the contact of Fiona. And finally, he managed to get Fiona ’s ICQ no. To his surprise, she was studying Electronic Engineering degree (he graduated from the same department as well), so he kept contacting her and offered to teach her some of the courses.
I didn’t asked them the rest of the story … … May be Kevin can share the rest with you later … …
date: 29 June, 2008 (a rainy day) ceremony and reception: Langham Hotel makeup: nancy kim
We started shooting at Fiona ’s home in Tseung Kwan O in the morning, followed by location shooting at HKU, then back to Tseung Kwan O. Even though it took long time traveling and it rained so bad on Sunday, they really loved to take some photos at HKU. Happy looking at the rain drops
» Continue reading love at the first sight -wedding of the fiona and kevin
my 1st wedding in 2008. this was a simple wedding – just an evening reception with friends and families at the Peninsula. However, it was quite challenging for me that David didn’t like wedding photo at all. And we had a whole afternoon free time before the reception started.
I chatted with David and found that he just bought a new DSLR camera a few days ago, so I asked him to take some photos of Pauline in the hotel suite. The moment he started to click click click, he got loosen up very soon, and I got a lot of nice pictures with them.
my fav of the day. After the ceremony, One shot and I brought Christine and Sam to the swimming pool for a 15 min portrait session. It ’s just after sunset so we still got some warm light, I love the contrast of warm light on them and the cool blue color of the swimming pool
it is always a honor to be invited as the wedding photographer of another wedding photographer and I feel extremely honored as DM is a very talented photographer (he is always one of my recommended photographer on my list).
DM (D = Tak or Duck, M=Mabel) is a special couple, both of them are working in the wedding industry, while dm is a photographer, Mabel is a make up artist, so they have attended a lot of weddings and they ‘d like to have an extraordinary wedding themselves , and they really like to share the joy and happiness with all friends. The wedding party, the dress, the rundown, the invitation, the backdrop, the march – in, the wedding video, all the details ‘re so unique, they planned their wedding for over 10 months and everything was recorded on their 329 wedding blog.
amazing, isn’t it? They had a bowling session with their friends and looked like they ‘re really good at that. This is one of my fav photo of the day — I found it very difficult to take bowing photo — sometime the lighting ’s not correct, focus ’s not right, or press the shutter too early or too late, when everything ’s correct, then the expression ’s not there. I shot around 6-7 pic before I got this shot, and the second I got this, I jumped and screamed!!!!
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