Thursday, July 1, 2010

A Pre-Wedding Shoot up in the Hills

It was dark when we loaded up our gears into the car. We were scheduled to do a photoshoot at a very exclusive hotel up in the hills. And with only a couple of hours open for us to work our magic, we wanted to ensure that we make full use of those couple of hours.

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We stopped by McDonald’s to have a nice hearty breakfast. We would not be able to have anything else until lunch.

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And it was still dark out when we continued our journey up north.

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And when light came, the skies got a little gloomy. Which is a good thing actually. Not too hot. :) We at FingerOnShutter do not like the heat. hahaha. We prefer the cold.

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After the long straight comfortable road of the highway, we ventured into the narrower and with much more twists and turn roads up to Cameron Highlands.

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Finally after about.. erm.. i am not sure actually.. but about 3-4 hours later, we arrived at the exclusive hotel. Very nice actually. And the nice cool weather makes sure that we do not have to wring our face towels……

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.. like this. It was one of the most comfortable shoots ever for us. Remember, we love the cold. The colder the better :)

Here we see the groom himself taking up his trusty Canon to photograph his wife getting ready.

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The groom… from fishingcow.blogspot.com squeezing between the chair and wall for his angle.

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He is an avid photographer as well. He was rather busy with his camera that day.

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No photos please. Interesting t-shirt. Fortunately what he wears does not relate directly to how he thinks. He’s not very camera shy.

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Somehow I like the effect of this photo. 24mm @ f1.8 gives a unique and interesting view and bokeh.

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The hotel had plenty of place for us to hang out while waiting for the bride to get ready.

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Then it was time to get down and serious and proceed with the photoshoot.

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Hmmm.. I wonder what these two are trying to do.

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We continued our photoshoot to one of the tea plantations. That’s Jason at the top of the hill.

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That’s me trying CLS on the couple.

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This is Ming… our make up artist for the day :)

After the whole day of driving and photoshooting, we decided to call it a day and proceeded up to the top of the hill.

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6666 feet above sea level.

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Oh.. sorry. We forgot that we had this for our quick lunch. Actually we wanted to have something big. But due to time constraints, we decided to have something quick, but nice.

We proceeded to head to the night market to pick up some vegetables, corns and other stuff not usually or readily available in KL. On the way…

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We encountered this very long queue of cars, which was about 1-2km long queueing up to the night market. This is crazy! But it was not that bad. We reached the night market about 10-15 minutes later. What was worse was the parking. Oh… my. Our lucky stars must be shining upon us that moment as a car was just reversing out of a park as we were passing by. *phew*

We stayed the night.

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It was kind of a cosy place. This photo was taken early the next morning. Nice sun, cooling weather. Ahhh…. bliss.

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After a nice hearty breakfast, we packed, and continued photoshooting the bride and groom.

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Had nice little quick lunch at Mary Brown and a little web surfing, and we were headed back to KL!

It was a fun trip. A successful photoshoot. And a refreshing break from the city. We are currently working on some of the photos from the photoshoot. We will be uploading them very soon. So check back often ok?

Cheerio!

Oh.. by the way, some of the photos here are taken by HTC Legend using the ‘Lomo’ effect camera application :)

Monday, June 28, 2010

The Model : Wen San

Hi there people. Sorry it took a while before we are able to upload this post. Here are some of the selected result from the photoshoot a some weeks back featuring Wen San as our model.

 

 

Do check back soon for the next blog entry. We went up Cameron Highlands for a pre-wedding photoshoot. Well, sort of a pre-wedding. Check back soon ya..

Friday, June 18, 2010

Photoshooting Wen San

We always believe that photography should have an element of fun in it. Half the fun of a photoshoot outing is the bonding among photographers and models, and the fun they have during the photoshoot.

That weekend, we headed to Cyberjaya; the city hailed to be the Information Technology hub. Wanting to have a colourful theme to the photoshoot, we first headed to a park where there’s a nice colourful playground and we worked our magic.

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but first… we have to set up the music which Ian gladly did :)

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One of the more important aspect in photographer is the angle.

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Angles can make or break a great photo. So it’s important that you find that angle.

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Even if it means that you have to get down to a compromising position.

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Of course you can take photos standing up ‘normally’ like this. But where’s the fun in that?

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So we tried many different positions. There were 3 of us that day. I really do hope that none of us have the same angle and composition. That would be boring ain’t it?

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This seems fun!

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This is a good position I guess. Same direction, different angle. Let’s see how the photos turn out in the next blog entry.

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Oh.. by the way, it was rather hot and humid that day. I was sweating like a I was in a sauna.

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Hmm… I think Jason got too much sun exposure.

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Jason guiding the Wen San on posing and positioning.

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Multiple angles.

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Besides angles… you have to check if there’s other distracting objects, or in this case, people, in the frame.

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The infamous pangsai stance. Very stable. Very good for shooting with telephoto lenses.

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Apparently it’s quite good for chimping as well :)

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Can you spot the photographer? hehe

and… last but not least..

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The group photo… hahaha…

ok ok .. here’s the more proper group photo :)

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Stay tune for the upcoming end results of the photoshoot.