Monday, March 8, 2010 Posted in Wedding
Kun Sen, a younger brother of one of my good friends in secondary school. Knowing him since he was in Standard 4. I often stayed overnight at his house during school holiday, and we became quite close friends.
JC, was in touch with me all the while since day one and engaged me as their wedding photographer when she was in UK not knowing the friendship of Kun Sen and I.
Not until it was firmed that I would officially photograph their wedding, Kun Sen then found out his photographer is none other than a friend! What a small world!
Photographing JC’s family is really different from many. As her 3 sisters and a few cousins specially made a trip from Melacca for her wedding, they formed the most charismatic group I have ever met. They were loud, expressive, fun but the most important element I could feel the love in the family.
Apart from having good time photographing Kun Sen & JC, I’d never forget the experience when I was on the job on that particular day. I fell sick, terribly sick that I had high fever. I am glad I did not give up to have second shooter to take over my job, but insisted to get the job done. Having 8 pills of Panadol in a day wasn’t too bad to ensure my fever was under control.
For more photos, click here.
Weddings are always full of excitement!
To me, to photograph a wedding is always a happy challenge. Apart from having different experience with different bride and groom, it is also the people I met throughout the wedding day, the venues, the shoots and many more are the elements that bringjoy as a wedding photographer. That’s the best way to have joyous and touching moments being captured through my lens. A whole day shoot for a wedding is very tiring, but I guess it’s worth the effort.
This year, if everything goes well and in its sequence, it will be a blissful year for me to photograph more weddings outside Kuching. That means I will have to travel more. I contain not to stay in my comfort zone and wanting to explore more in different cities and different cultures. If you like my works, do write to me if you are planning a wedding, anywhere. I wish to extend my excitement to you.
If you happen to be in Phuket, Thailand in the last weekend of May 2010 and wish to have your portraits or engagement session or even a wedding photographed, I still have a seat to offer!
If you fancy a Bali pre wedding or wedding photography session, the good news is, we are in the stage of having a session done in the hot sunny and lovely island in the beginning of July 2010. Even better news, you dont have to pay premium price but we do offer premium Collection. We wont even be asking you to subsidise our air traveling expenses or accommodation. Just have your best holiday mood prepared, put on your big smile and we’re ready to have your sweetest and most memorable wedding moments captured!
Only 3 seats available. In fact, we already have some inquiries chasing us for confirmation. Hurry and do not miss out!
Lastly, as I cant contain my excitement anymore! I wish to share with you just a few photos captured over the last weekend in Penang! I was particularly looking forward to that day, and vowed to have some great pictures captured thru my lens. It is not only my very first wedding assignment in Penang, but also because it was a military wedding! Not many military weddings are around especially in a country like Malaysia. How many wedding photographers would have already experienced such valuable experience? I guess not many of them. But I have the honor of having such privilege to take part in Cheng Soi and Jo Lynn’s military theme wedding. It is definitely something I will remember for good.
Tags: Actual Day Wedding, Army, Bali, Bride, Groom, Major, Military Wedding, Nikon, Penang, Phuket, Shen Yeo, ShenSnaps
Sunday, February 21, 2010 Posted in Wedding
Richard, born and raised in UK. Mary, a true local Kuchingnite. But fate and love has put them together. Met in Birmingham, and now reallocated in London.
I had the privilege to photograph their wedding celebration, witnessing how Richard had to slightly adapt to our local culture with the teasers from bride’s best friends in order to marry his partner for life. I had fun, enjoyable time during the assignment especially when I found out some of my friends are actually related to each other in the family. Oh, what a small world. 
For more photos from the day, simply click here.
One of the huge advantages we have as photographers nowadays is being mobile, thanks to the Creative Lighting Solution (CLS) creation. Putting away the heavy and bulky studio lighting equipment to achieve similar result and this simply means, we can move all around, from town to town or even country to country to fulfill our commitments to capture portraits.
I have been doing this quite a while, with handy equipments packed in my backpack in getting some portraitures done for a few listed company directors and their top management personnel in the country last year. This year, I even have more people asking about doing their personal or family portraitures. The CLS would just be handy to fulfill the need. It’s such a blessing!
Below are just some photos I took a moment ago, using my usual, fully committed, one and only model I have, Alicia, while she was watching her fave TV program, “The Biggest Loser”.
The venue was my humble little apartment. Nothing fancy, just simple living room set up.
This photo was captured with a single light source on the left. The light was just nice and sufficient on Alicia’s face. However due to only single light source, Alicia’s dark hair had lost its detail to the background.
To solve problem, I basically put another light source (flash) behind Alicia and light it to split the background and Alicia’s hair. Then, this is basically a much better photo than the first.
Similar technique was used for the above photo. A main light source was placed at the right side while second light source was directly pointed at Alicia’s hair to ensure the hair details could be separated and be seen from the dark background. Shadow, in this case is a good friend of mine to create a more mysterious feel to the subject. It looks more dramatic in the picture.
Happy Chinese New Year!
It’s Chinese Lunar New Year of Tiger. We would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone here a blessed new year, stay young and healthy. May the year of Tiger be as great as before.
For me, as usual on the day one of CNY, a visit to my parents house. But this year in fact we decided to take family portrait at home. We haven’t been doing this for some years, that was even before Alicia’s introduction to our family.
Man, I didn’t know it was so challenging to have a self family portrait taken. So much more difficult than I thought. At least I know I did not have the luxury of an assistant. Everything was self controlled. I gotta run up and down to ensure the setting was right, the lighting, posing the subjects (my family members of course) and to ensure I stood at the right spot. The toughest of all was to manage impatient daddy. 
Tough job on the first day of Chinese New Year huh.
One of my 2010 photography resolutions is to improve my lighting skill. I have made it clear to the loved ones that I’d love to improve in this area. All this while, psychologically I have fear to flash my subjects (the bride and groom) using remote flash. And I know it’s time to remove this barrier and go on positively in this wonderful wedding photography journey.
More amazingly, after Joe’s back to basic teaching and some simple demonstration of using the remote flash in the most simple way, I gained much than I could imagine. More importantly that restored my confidence to flash remotely in any low light condition. This will soon be my next self challenge to have some portraiture sessions applying some of these techniques. Below are just some of the pictures I created myself, with help from some fellow photographer friends.
Please meet a new friend of mine, Melissa, whose real profession is NTV news broadcaster.
And, we have a professional dancer. This is Sherlyn, a professional dancer.
by shen yeo
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