CheokHoong + PuiYee : Prelude

A friend recently gave me a nudge about not updating my blog for some time now. Yes, I've been tied up lately. Furthermore, the group went on a "mini sabatical" in the month of November. No photoshoot were planned (some got postponed rather) to recharge ourselves in anticipation of a busy month in December, starting with this one..

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A pre-wedding portrait - Cheok Hoong, fondly known as Loke is a close friend of ours for almost 10 years now. It's always a joy to see yet another friend tying up the knot. This shoot was done at 32 At The Mansion, a beautifully restored colonial mansion situated at the Upper Penang Road. Great settings for beautiful pre-wedding images. Check them out below!

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* AD pics shall be posted soon. Stay tuned.

Stefanie @Nikonian Academy Penang

A snapshot of Stefanie Chua, Miss World Malaysia 2009 first runner up during the Nikonian Academy Penang opening ceremony 2 weeks ago. It was shot with an on-camera flash, not something I really fancy but I have to say... I just love this shot! See other shots from the launch party here.

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"I Am" :: Natalie

This is a quick, pretty much unplanned assignment. The request from Natalie was for a studio-style photo shoot. Now, you can easily create a "studio" effect from anywhere at all. All you need is a plain backdrop and some proper lightings. Sound simple? Here are the results. View the entire album here.

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Lexy: Glam at the G

My latest work being my favourite to date. The model, Lexy is a friend's sister and she's a real joy to photograph! It's fortunate that we managed to obtain the permission to shoot at the G-Hotel. Put a beautiful model and a stylish setting together, and you get wonderful images!

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(Note: Images losing quality after being uploaded to Picasa. For sharper images, view my Facebook album)

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Lisa `di Carinata

Looking at the portraits in this album, would you have guessed that this is her first time modelling for a shoot? Lisa, a 21 year old engineering intern at Intel - one confident lass with great character! *emo*. This portrait was shot at the showhouse of my future home - Setia's Vista Carinata. Full turn up by all Pixers members made shooting a real challenge. Great first from Lisa and we've already got the second planned *grin* Till then... !

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Shoot Like A Pro: Shots of Fion & Ying

These are the few shots I love, taken during the hands-on model shoot session. We're only given 25 minutes each to work on both models. To pose the model and ensure that you captured the best (at least something that Louis would be proud of) under that amount of time is a real pressure! The result in the end, not too bad at all! Excellent job by Fion & Ying!

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Fion:

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Louis Pang's Shoot Like A Pro

This is a workshop I've always wanted to attend ever since I'm being introduced to Louis. I love his photography style. His work is photojournalistic, creative & thoughtful, yet clean. The only thing holding me back all these while is the cost of it - it's not cheap considering that the man himself is an international wedding photographer with 6 WPPI awards under his belt.

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When I first mooted the idea of attending this workshop to my friends, I wasn't really serious about it. It was Fred who managed to get us (TK & I) into enrolling. Fred just picked up this passion a couple of months ago so I was rather surprised by his enthusiasm!

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Meeting Louis is great. He is such an amazing teacher! It's a compressed workshop but hopefully those tips & skills we picked up will help us be a better photographer and produce more beautiful images. We came out from the workshop definitely inspired, not to mention the new found friendship with some of the fellow participants :)

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Sneak-peeking Lisa!

Her name is Lisa. I shall not reveal more until the album is up. Keep an eye on this space. Mean while, I'll be attending Louis Pang's one day workshop later this morning. I'm all excited to meet the man, arguably one of the best modern photographers in the country. Hopefully, he'll be able to inspire me to become an even better photographer!

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Bengho*Hooiling ~ ROM.09.29.09

Here's the collection of pre-wedding portraits for Bengho & Hooiling, shot right after their ROM last Saturday. Initial plan of doing the shoot at the Khoo Kongsi had to be dropped after we were told to pay a rather extorbitant fee! Ended up doing the shoot along the street of Gat Lebuh Cina, where the majestic Custom building stands.

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It's one hot day but I enjoyed the shoot. Hope my work is well liked by both Bengho & Hooiling. Congrats!

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NAT-al-IE : Skylight

5 days of Raya break last week and no photoshoot planned sounds like a disaster! But fret not. Determined of not letting myself rot at home in what seemed to be an "unproductive" holidays, I quickly arranged an impromptu photoshoot. Yeah, Nat saved my holidays :)

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Titled "Skylight" as the dull grey evening skies turned into beautiful orangy hues as we shoot, though for a short period of time before it was shrouded by total darkness. Nat is looking great as usual!!

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Derrick & Karren - Our First Wedding Anniversary

Finally, after a number of previews on Facebook, presenting the album for Derrick & Karren. This collection of shots was done last week to commemorate the couple's first wedding anniversary. They were photographed on location at the Peranakan Mansion, and few other "hot" wedding photography spots around the area.

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This is by far the shoot that satisfies me the most. Scroll down and click on the link to view the entire album. Do drop me a line if you like them.

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The Shutterbug is now El Fotógrafo

You read it right. If you haven't noticed, the blog has been renamed. After close to a year of active photography, it's time I move to the next level. The rebranding of the blog is just the very first step towards the goal.

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Capturing portraits is my favourite and more exciting works are coming right up. The Shutterbug is now El Fotógrafo!

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Restless

Shot at Campbell Street, Penang.

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Natalie - 초상화

First outing for the Pixers, a photography group formed with several of my photography buddies. The talent for this shoot is Natalie, a beautiful law student whom Jonsern managed to coax to being our model.

My idea was to do a photobook with story line but it didn't work out in the end. The mundane morning sky wasn't any helpful either. Luckily Nat's chirpiness saved the day. Changed the initial idea to a fashion themed shoot, which is why you don't see Nat smiled as much in my shots - I love them! It shows that edgy character of hers!

With this album done, I'm proposing another "happy" themed portrait with her sometime soon.. to which she has happily obliged (:

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(Note: the photos in this blog is uploaded to Picasa, a free photo hosting application. Therefore, expect a slight degradation to the picture quality particularly the sharpness).

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Baby H

"H" for Harini, born August 5th at day 26th of her life in this world. If you followed my blog closely, you'd have seen the potraits of her parents before. This series of shots in B&W was done in a quick 15 minutes during our first visit two weekends ago. Baby H was too small to be comfortably photographed so I made it real quick with whatever pose she gave. As you can see towards the end, the little girl began getting irritated - a signal telling me to stop snapping & hand her back to her mom :)

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Playful

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The Trumpet Player

Here's the first to a collection of random shots, which I will be posting one at a time from today onwards, every now & then. These shots are those that I like, but were unable to make up a series or collection to be shared. So instead of letting them collect dust, here they are, starting with this one of the trumpet player...

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Rayne

I've always wanted to do an indoor potrait shoot. The type with beautiful & stylish interior designs. Now when I think of that, the only place in Penang that comes across my mind is the stylish G-Hotel. But to shoot in public places seems like a less brilliant idea, what more with the number of photographers that'll be joining me - it'll sure create a buzz!

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That's when it suddenly struck my mind that I can do this at the show house of the project I bought. 8 houses/designs to choose from, now that's what you call spoilt for choices! A call to the developer is all I need to get this arranged..

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And now comes the model. Who else could better suit the theme than Rayne - a friend who's also the girlfriend of my lighting assisstant of the day ;) Very grateful to the both of them and especially appreciate the fact that Rayne even put a great effort in wardrobe selection as well as got her makeup professionally done! Awesome!

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In this shoot, only a single flash is used, shot through umbrella on one side while a handful was done on natural light only. This is to me a good start in CLS photography. Shall play with more lights in my subsequent shoots. Enjoy.

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