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.

our 1st stop – four seasons in the morning. Just learned a new way of applying texture, love the effect.

nice earings

I almost attached myself to the ceiling to get this shot (haha, just kidding)

the swimming pool inside four seasons –

our 2nd stop – the MGM

our 3rd stop – the 主教山小堂 Chapel on Penha Hill. We arrived there at around 1700h, we thought it was closed at 1900, so we relaxed and the MUA did some make up for Janice again. As soon as we started shooting at 1725, security asked us to leave and the chapel was going to close at 1730. OMG …. ….. we only had 5 min to finish the following two shots …. ….

last stop: the hotel Venetian

Another nice session in Oct that I ‘d like to share with you. Beautiful bride, nice couple – nothing can be better. We started the day at Park Island, this is my 2nd time to have shooting here. A very nice place, but too difficult to get there as we could only go there by  their shuttle bus or ferry (remember, we had a lot of photo and lighting equipments to carry)

date: Oct 14, 2008
locations: Park Island, Stanley Market, Central (night shot)
make-up artist: polly of faces hk

thanks for treating me a very nice dinner at Tivo – a dining bar that they visit very often. Both Canly and I loved the food very much

we started the day at their home at park island

we just walked around inside the park island

love this shot

the running bride @ park island

here is a tunnel at the swimming pool

beautiful light

2nd stop: stanley market.

they got a big group of fans here !!!

lots of cafes at stanley market

so happy that they ‘re willing to have photos taken at the Stanley Military Cemetery !!!!

I loved this place a lot.

a great jump by Michael

another fav of the day

another shot at Tivo

have been there a lot of time, but first time to take photo here at night time.

love the following two shots – simple but beautiful

this is my 2nd time to have a wedding at the beautiful Bethanie Chapel. I love this location a lot, not only because of the beautiful architecture, and I love their booking system as well. When you book this venue, you have a 4 hour session, so you don’t need to rush before and after the ceremony.

date: feb 2, 2008
ceremony: Bethanie Chapel
reception: Langham Place Hotel

Even though we couldn’t go out because of the bad weather, there ‘re so many beautiful locations inside the chapel. I was trying a new concept, inspired by another wpja award winning photographer Dino Lara

getting ready — Christy ’s father

beautiful christy

the lovely flower girl helping Christy

The wedding party enjoyed the game session very much and I could take a lot of great shots

Wow !!!

ceremony at the Bethanie Chapel

Congratulations Mr and Mrs Lam !!!!!

a shot by my assistant  (Siu B)

Private photo session – a corner inside Bethanie

their wedding rings

We only had a few outdoor photos — this was one of them. taken at the swimming pool of the hotel. In fact, it was still raining, and they had to hide under the tent.

dancing inside the hotel

we walked around inside the hotel to find photo opportunities … ..

we even went to the car park for this photo

the reception

cake cutting !!!

thanks for your trust on me in your wedding. there is a little story. About 1 month before the wedding, we arranged a pre-meeting to discuss the rundown. However, I forgot to mark it in my personal calendar and made them wait for me in the coffee shop whole night. At that time, I guessed they must be very worry about me … …

On the contrary, they ‘re very nice on their wedding day and showed a lot of trust on me. Big big thanks to you !!!!!

date: 12 jan 2008
ceremony: Eden Marriage Registry, TST
reception: Langham Place Hotel

this is the fav of the day. location: the swimming pool at 42/F of the Langham Place Hotel. I decided to go there at around 5:30pm as the weather of the day was very good and we expected that there would be very good light at sunset, and I was right. The cool color reflection from the pool (lucky that we didn’t have other swimmer, the water was very quiet) made the photo even more interesting and gave more contrast.

the beautiful sunset. Not many hotel ballroom in Hong Kong have a sunset view.

agnes waiting for jim in the morning

amazing details

the happy bridesmaids preparing the game

amazing!!! they paid a lot of efforts in preparation

jim in the morning

the handsome jim

at jim ’s apartment, changed into wedding gown

did you see the veil above? I got a new idea suddenly and asked my assistant to hold the veil between agnes and my camera, this created a soft lens effect without using a soft lens or Photoshop

some portraits under jim ’s apartment

poor crying boy

kids always got a lot of attention in wedding

agnes waiting for the ceremony at the bridal room.
This is a high key image with cross process effect

ceremony at the Eden marriage registry. this is my second time taking photo there. I found it challenging as the area was always very crowed, the ceremony was very fast, and the worse was the quality of light (with a mix of purple curtain, yellow light and windows light). This ’s a situation that you can’t rely on the available light. To cope with it, I removed most of the ambient light this time (make it 1.5 stops dimmer) and used 3 lights to light up different parts of the area.

kissing the bride

everyone, let’ s have some fun together !!!

a bridal portrait at the Langham hotel

this pic was taken 15 min after the pool photo above, soon after the sunset, the color of the sky changed to blue very very fast. That ’s why all the photographers call this period of time — the magic hour

look at their friends ‘ expression, their wedding photo in Taiwan must be very gorgeous

jim was singing to agnes

(updated: 11 june) thanks for agnes and jim ’s comment, here are their two fav photos that I ‘d like to share with you

the is agnes ’s fav.

this is jim ’s fav — another version of the 1st photo above

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

the wedding shoes

get ready in the morning. Their apartment ’s very nice and had lots of available light

a close up shot the bouquet

the wedding dress

guess what Sam ’s saying outside the door … …

change into wedding gown

there ‘re so many nice photo locations inside their apartment

before heading to Clearwater Bay, we had 30 min photo session in Central

Christine and the bridesmaids

“catch me if you can” … …

getting ready @ Clearwater Bay Golf & Country Club

the ceremony – Christine ’s sister Fiona

what a nice location for ceremony !!! (photo by my 2nd photographer – Ken)

the weather was perfect !!!!

the wedding ’s full of fun

landscape shot of the sunset

guess what they ‘re looking at ?

Christine and Sam ‘re dancing next to the swimming pool (and believe me, they ‘re real good dancers !!!!!)

the first dance (they started with some romantic music, yes !!! they ‘re very good at dancing and I took a lot of great dancing pics of them!!!!!!)

like the lighting in this pic

then, they changed into a fast Salsa dance !!!

and everyone got excited !!!!!!

The day before the wedding, they had a lot of swimming and we had the ceremony rehearsal in the afternoon. After that we went to the beach to take some photos of Julie and Ed alone.

Visit my blog in next few day for wedding day photo … …

Ed is a handsome, sporty guy. He loves golf so much that he prepared golf tee as gift to guests

Julie is a beautiful girl, gentle and very nice. She handmade soap and candles herself for the guest. I like the contrast of this photo, soft and hard, light and dark, smooth and rough … ….

view from the bridal room

before the rehearsal, I took some photos of them inside the villa

We had a lot of fun at the swimming pool

another pic at the swimming pool

Julie ’s showing her funny pose to Ed.

We went to the beach after the ceremony rehearsal

Thank you Julie. I am so happy that she ’s willing to go into the water though she doesn’t know how to swim

Behind the scene by Esther. We got a lot of great shots here. Thank you Julie & Ed for getting wet with me

No one can take bad picture here

Hi Hi !!

the pool side welcome party

It was 4 pm at the swimming pool of the hotel, and I believe it was over 32 degree. I got completely wet at that moment, yet I love this picture so much. Thank you  Kester & Harold, you ‘re wonderful

Two pairs of wedding shoes

You may know I HATE taking those "wedding dress hanging over the windows" shots – they are just too typical and lack of character. But this one is an exception.

Getting ready shots. Make up artist is Connie Yung of Be Beauty

Harold ’s helping Kester putting on the wedding shoes

I love the quality of light in this picture

Before the reception, we took some portraits inside the hotel. This shot was taken at the lobby, I had never planned this, but suddenly, I noticed the color of the sky and the mirror image on the floor could make excellent image. The result tells I am right at that moment.

The light, the mood & the smiles of Kester are all perfect

We had prepared a same day photo slideshow for Kester & Harold

The last picture