2008 in remembrance

At the end of the year 08, i was counting my blessing. In deed the Lord had bless me with bundles of joy in 2008. Beside having my two (2) wisdom tooth pulled out, i can't remember any thing that more worst or depressing that that.
Start new family with my lovely wife, we got a beautiful baby, I move in to my new house, started photography and jump start wedding journalism/photography.

Relatively, i am new in wedding photography but the drive within push me to strive to get better photos. Having a entry level dslr camera does not impaired my images as i strive on the best angle shots and later i can post process the image courtesy of Adobe Photoshop off course. Do i sound boasting? Well, duhh...
My main objective when i started was simple:

1. Giving an alternative to the wed couple.

Glance through my blog here, that is my standard. At year 2008
my rates for full package was range from RM 800.00 to
RM 1050.00. The package includes a 22 pages - 8R Album.
Visit any bridal house and ask for their package for actual day,
and compare their photos and album quality.
Like I said, i am giving the wed couple an alternative.

So i guess it is not too late to thank you the Couples of Lighted Darkroom 2008:

1. Garry+Josephyne
2. Larry+Oli
3. Edwin+Mary
4. James+Jacqualine
5. Padesen+Melissa Sue
6. Leslie+Jasmine
7. Han+Selina
8. Labo+Klainarie
9. Melvyn+Angeline
10. Vernon+Jill
11. Namazi&Ranizah
12. Kelvin+Cindy
13. Restena+Herman
14. Wyneer+Adrina
15. Mering Joy+Rachel
16. August+Kalentina

Thank you guys for the trust and opportunity to be part of your important event in life.

p/s: do come back for your 1st anniversary portrait! =)

Indeed this year i am striving for quality in my work. I will work differently this year. I will change my working style and my package.
FQA that i was asked the most was " will you edit the whole photos?" My answer here is- shooting in RAW format need a conversion software. so while on the software, it does need some tweaking here and there, so the answer is yes. but there is a further more editing after the conversion of RAW files to JPEG. that is using photoshop. This will further enhance and boost the images. Normally for a full day wedding i'll end up with around 300 images. So it is quite impossible to enhance all this images within a short period. Due to this, wedding photographer normally select all the important momement or event of the wedding plus the promising shots. So i will do just that. I will do full editing on to at least 100 images, but i'll pass ALL the images to client. So if I got 300 images, i will edit using the conversion software, and then 100 images will be given full editing.

So within the next few days, i will launch my new package for 2009. But for those that that booked me for their wedding in 2009 within year 2008, i will maintain the 2008 rates.And I might extended a grace period for the 2008 rates within January 2009 for the 2008 rates.

So hurry up! I open for bookings! I had 3 already. Two in Miri, One in Kuching. Last month I've just turn down a couple that clash with my earlier bookings. So, better be fast..
A 50 ringgit is consider a booking too!