be calm & be still

Be calm and be still..

revisit

I almost discard this image because their friend was just behind them when i shoot. Then the shutter was a bit too slow. But then a little bit of cloning and clean up I manage to slavage the photo. Will update the full monty in a flash. Till then happy post gawai & have a good long holiday to all!

It's December!

It is December! The final month of 2009! It is just like i'm still having hard time to scratch 2009 on my parking coupon (yup i got a few 15 ringgit saman due to that!) yet in a month time come 2010. Wow! A decade had passed in the 21st century. apuuu.. A decade!
Christmas is coming soon though. And December is a busy month for weddings. I'm booked for three wedding this month and still some are on going nego. On top of that, some christmas family photos & outdoor shoot are being line up! So sit tight, and while we are doing our year end shooping spree, do drop by.. I'm excited!
Below is a sneak peek of a wedding that i just covered last week end. An amazing couple and what a beautiful wedding! Til then, have fun! Time to crash in. Good nite!

Asia @ 8th month old

While waiting for mama finish her jog, i had a one on one session with asia. she is quite responsive when ask her to pose.. to my clown face maybe..

daphne photoshoot

I was extremely honour when I was invited to join a group of enthusiastic photographers for a photoshot outing with a model in the making. It is always an opurtinity to learn sumthing and at the same time to enchance the photoskill & refresh yourself and a new sets of photos. And i won't do any justice if i don't mention that our model of the day was a very pretty & talented young lady. She's an undergrad from Curtin and also the treasurer of the student commitee.. =) happy viewing..

peak season

It is the wedding peak season again.. Since last week i had two wedding already. I was extreamly excited after shelfing my marker for almost 2 months.. here's a sneak peak on what i am working on lately. On top of all the wedding photos, I had a lot of shots during the gawai festival that i spent at shawry's kampung.. Asia really enjoy the attention there. Till then, time to burn the midnight oil.. duh..

our family portrait

After i did Irwin & Martina's family portrait, a week after that, we had ours. I want to have a few family portrait on my wall during Christmas.
I had to use tripod and timer for the shoot since i want to do all things by myself, which later i regret.. imagine set up the camera, do test shoots, then set up the timer then run in front for the shoots.. after a few shots, i was sweating like pig.. so a bit of clone and blurred editing most of the photos.. hehe..




Since i was not sure either to go colors or monotone, so i print both. In the end, i hung up the monotone pic. I guess it suits my wall colours better. =)

The next six photos we had it in Bintulu during my previous wedding assignment there.

Taken by Shawry. I saw a portrait like this a year ago. So I opt to have me and Asia similair posing. heh, whatever.. it's on my wall too.

Courtesy of the tripod again.

irwin&martina family portrait

Event : Family Portrait
Date : 8th Dec 08
Equipment : Nikon D40x+SB900+Polariser


Paige's safety campaign shot. We shot it at the park too so a lot of editing to do to get rid of other images in the picture!



Riran doing his stretching before starts his run.

I was very excited but blurred when Martina contacted me to have her daughter Paige photo for a road safety campaign. And at the same time, since Christmas Day is coming up, and year 2008 is coming to the end, Irwin & Martina decided to have their family portrait. Chasing Riran and Paige around the park was the big challange that day, but in the end we had some interesting shots. Capturing children's photos i believe the most challanging shots in photography so far for me.. hehe..
Then, a week after that, i round up my family and had ours.

i'll hypnotize you..

Had my first FULL version of chinese wedding last weekend. i felt really fortunate to become the official photographer that day.. a very early day to begin with and long but interesting day it was.. i'll update this post as soon as i'll finish the editing and all.. in the mean time, i'll post this photo of cindy here. her look here remind me of the japanese animax.. Kelvin, you have to wait just a little bit for your photos..hehe.

To kelvin and cindy, Congrates! to the rest, rest in love.. =)

Being very busy lately. slow on the blogging lately. i am juggling with the fulllest here people.. nevertheless, spice up the life within.. hehe.. what ever that means..

asia- week 8

Asia is in here 8th week on planet earth. No, the pic is not in a space craft nor does my direction for her to become the first women in formula 1. Not even the GT girls. hehe.. she might spot me there ..
Thanks to auntie mar she got a bucket seat in my black mobile. and she seems to enjoy every minutes of being in there. thanks mar!
We had our night out yesterday and while i was pumping gas in the trunk(sounds like american huh.. being malaysian it should be "while i was pumping the processed cheap sour crude from other countries and sells here" ) she calls for me! doing the crow thing, "ark!ark!" she can see me from inside the car.. so baby starts to respond and express herself by now. so parents need to be careful she starts to gather data and might or might not remembers things she saw..
she also starts to suck her thumb, her whole hand actually. but one really bad habit she got is she always rub her face until she got rashes and scratches on her face. so, we wrap her in her towel or blanket at first but she sweating like what oo.. and starts to cry.. so being inovative, we as good parents tuck her both hands in here pants! hahaha.. just to make her not to rub her rashes.. i guess around 2 days maybe.. remind me of alanis moriset hit "i got one hand in my pocket and the other one doing the peace sign.."

labo&kline_pre-wedding shoot

Set up : Pre wedding shoot
Model : labo&klainarie
Date : 18.10.08
Venue : Coastal Coast, Southern Miri + Padang Kapas Miri
Photography : lighted darkroom photography
Equipment : Nikon D40X+Polarizer+Selfmade Reflector+ 18-200m Nikkor lens
Make-up artist : On maternity leave =)



I was never into lalang shoot before. But when i pass by this cotton field last month, with the sunset backlite it, i know i'll get a good photos here.

russian ski cap

Asia in her russian ski cap..


She's 5 days old yesterday! Granpa visited us. So Asia is actually his great grand child. He got more that 10 great grand children already!

it is still raining!

It was raining for the whole week. So we decided to take a few indoor photos. Lucky that i had this cute couple to enhance the shoot against the dull background and a not bad looking hunk behind the lens..sigh, i got carried away.. anyway more photos after the outdoor shoot..

post process

A few post process layout i'm pursuing lately.