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15-May-2013

Raymond Phang & his quirky photoshoot on actual day wedding

One of the shot taken at Wilson and Wendy’s actual day wedding last year in September by Raymond.

Wendy’s brother had biceps to die for and Raymond had his eyes fixed on them when he first met Wendy’s brother in the morning of the wedding day. You know when you keep looking at something, sometimes it can give people the wrong impression… XD

In this case, Raymond was really interested in Wendy’s brother……I mean Wendy’s brother’s biceps! Raymond being Raymond with his usual signature style to incorporate some element of quirks in his images, here goes a shot of Wendy’s brother’s biceps with Wendy standing in front of him to create the quirky illusion for this image. :)

For couples who are keen in working with Raymond for your actual day wedding, here’s how Raymond usually works. Prolly 70% to 80% of his shots are journalistic, documenting the event as it unfolds, leaving everything as it is. He just blends in with the background, observes and shoot be it the good or bad, happy or sad. Because all these are real moments, with no pretence.

20% to 30% would be the posed shots. You see, Raymond is more of the spontaneous person. He enjoys challenges and working with the available element on the wedding day itself. So whenever he gets inspired, he’ll just grab the couple (sometimes together with the bridal party) for some posed shots. It can be the pretty pictures like a mini bridal pre wedding photoshoot, or it can be the quirky and funny ones, depending on mood, depending on inspiration, and depending on what’s available. Of course if the couple prefers for the entire day to be captured in its natural moment, meaning absolutely zero posed shots, then they can always let us know beforehand and we’ll totally leave them alone on the wedding day itself. We’re flexible with that.

We do have quite a mega mountain worth of images from various actual day weddings to share, so do bear with us as we try our best to share them one by one ya?

Hope this image cheers everyone up. Happy midweek Wednesday and press on! Fight the weekday battles with all your might and very soon the weekdays will come. Muwahahahaha!!

Lots of Love,
Angeline

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14-May-2013

A typical pre-wedding photoshoot day with Raymond Phang Photography

I think Susu took these images for us 2 years back on 1 November 2011. We were back from shooting James and Serena’s conceptualised pre-wedding on that day. OMG TIME FLIES!!!

You see, a bridal pre-wedding or even conceptualised pre-wedding photoshoot with Raymond Phang Photography typically starts at 7am. Around 6.30am we will have to reach the venue, shift all the necessary lighting equipment out and set up our lights, mark our positions and do a final confirmation of the angle etc and wait for the couple to arrive.

Before the shoot we will do our online homework and find a few desired location. Then 1 or 2 days before the shoot day itself we will do a final location scouting just to make sure that everything that we wanted for the shoot are still in place. Like for example if we want to shoot this particular tree, we have to make sure that the tree is still standing there. Else imagine how we will all panic if on the shoot day the tree we wanted is no longer there anymore. Nobody is going to enjoy the photoshoot session for sure cos we’ll all be so stressed up thinking about what to do next. Nobody likes to go to a shoot unprepared especially in Singapore where we have to literally beg for beautiful sky and weather.

So back to the photoshoot schedule. We start shooting at 7am, prolly break around 10ish 11am, drive to the nearest petrol kiosk and rob all the drinks in their fridge or drive to somewhere nearby to grab some quick bite, head back to office to download memory card, rename, backup, charge camera batteries, charge all batteries for the rest of the equipment, then proceed with operation “pass away” – fall into deep sleep. HAHAHAHAHA!!

Some couples choose to continue with indoor and then end the day before evening, some couples would like to have some evening shots so we break for awhile in the noon and continue again in the late afternoon/early evening.

So this is what it looks like when we proceed with operation pass away – we sleep anywhere and everywhere;

We get to snuggle up to Bailey and Satin the two naughty Chihuahuas.

The poor doggies got all squashed up by us but sometimes they really like being squashed so they’ll doze off and fall asleep with us. Sometimes only… HAHAHA!

Tired until didn’t even bother to take off the cap.

As for Ben… the cushion works.

Pre-Wedding photoshoot can be quite tiring for couples, especially the conceptualised pre-wedding photoshoot which is also physically demanding, so we don’t really advise doing a 10 or even 12 hours shoot in Singapore. Imagine if we start at 7am, it means the bride will have to wake up at prolly 4.30am to have the hair and make up done (usually takes 1.5 to 2 hours). And also you’ll have to factor in travelling time to location and with the traffic jam, you’ll prolly need to start earlier.

Not forgetting the hot humid weather in Singapore, with the layers of clothes the groom have to wear, with the uncomfy tight and heavy gown the bride have to wear… that’s really pure madness!

But of course if couple insist on doing a 10 – 12 hours pre-wedding shoot, we’re also cool with it! Afterall it’s about what the couple wants and we tough nuts at Raymond Phang Photography are more than capable to perform the entire day!

Love,
Angeline

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11-May-2013

Soulmate

Chanced upon this and I like it quite a lot so thought I’d share with you guys;

A soul mate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. When we feel safe enough to open the locks, our truest selves step out and we can be completely and honestly who we are; we can be loved for who we are and not for who we’re pretending to be. Each unveils the best part of the other. No matter what else goes wrong around us, with that one person we’re safe in our own paradise. Our soul mate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we’re two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we’ve found the right person. Our soul mate is the one who makes life come to life.

Have a blessed weekend everyone, and happy Mother’s Day!

Love,
Angeline

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10-May-2013

We are back from New Zealand!

After about one month of absence, Raymond Phang Photography is finally back in Singapore! Phew!!

Last year we were at South Island New Zealand, so this time round we decided to explore the North Island of New Zealand. It’s actually our third consecutive year visiting New Zealand. The pace of life there is somewhat still the same, but difference is we could see more tourists visiting the country, especially visitors from China and Korea.

Perhaps it’s due to our very hectic lifestyle here in Singapore, we very much appreciated the slow pace everyday life in New Zealand. Most activities ended by bout 4.30pm/5pm, and this time round the sky fall happened real quickly, like bout 6pm the sky became quite dark already. So we were forced to either rush through our day doing whatever we needed to do outdoors and drive few hundred kilometres to our next destination, or spend our early evening staying in our motel cooking/washing/watching TV.

One of our favourite activity was to go shopping at Countdown or Pak N Save! Hahaha! It’s quite therapeutic to just stroll around the aisles, looking at random products. Everytime we approaches the confectionery section, Angeline the chocolate/sweets/cakes/dessert monster will go crazy. Cos their chocolates are so darn affordable!!! I remember the last year I bought truckloads of big blocks of chocolates cos each block was like only $2.50 or $3, whereas in Singapore it cost at least $5 a block. Hahaha.

Between the North and South Island, personally I’d very much prefer the South. But of course North island has its own unique flavour too… I’ve already bookmarked some of the towns in North Island for my next visit. Teeheehee.

Hopefully we’ll travel again next year in Autumn. So any couples interested to tag along, please plan early and let us know okie?

We’ll try to share some pics from our New Zealand travel when we have the time.

For now… here are some of our conceptualised pre-wedding and bridal pre-wedding photos to share if you haven’t visited our Facebook;

Conceptualised pre-wedding photoshoot for Zijun and Xinhui on a “grow old with you” concept.

Most brides would shun this idea cos instead of looking all radiant and youthful, they were made to look much much older.

We wanted this series to look realistic, hence instead of shading and drawing lines on the skin which will lose the dimensional effect, we had the couple engage a special effect make… up artist to help them achieve the look. It means having layers of artificial chemicals glued on to their skin to get that wrinkly skin with some freckles and spots. Imagine the stinky smell of the glue and them having to sit through hours for this.

Hence kudos to Zijun and Xinhui for being so game on and patient!!!

Also for most post processing request, we’re usually asked to lighten the wrinkles, lines and all, but this was really different. (:

Bridal pre-wedding photoshoot for Eugene and Adeline in Oceanarium Singapore [Resorts World Sentosa].

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Here’s some sneak peek on our New Zealand 2013 travel from Angeline’s camera!

We came across this Strawberry farm and Lester was happily squatting down busy taking photos of some strawberries. Raymond, Susu and Angeline decided to do something crazy and stupid [what's new... HAHAHAHAHA!] and so Susu showed the camera how a mega huge strawberry looks like while innocently pretending to peek over to see what Lester was shooting. HAHAHAHAHA! Love this strawberry! Not yet ripe hence the pale color. :p

And here’s a group photo of the monkeys after the Strawberry saga. :p

For this trip we had the adventurous Cowan and Pamela joining us in the fun! Had truckloads of fun and laughter together!! Will share more on the photos next time!

Love,
Angeline

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12-Apr-2013

Bridal Pre-Wedding in Singapore (Universal Studios) by Raymond Phang

One of the recent bridal pre-wedding shoot we did for Eugene and Adeline in Universal Studios Singapore by Raymond Phang. Looking at this photo makes me hungry already… cos right after the evening session, we went for late dinner/supper. The mee soto was spicy, but quite yummy. Muwahahahahahahaha!! Okie a bit out of point but, pictures just bring back memories! :p

Okie dokies, Raymond Phang Photography will be flying off to New Zealand really really soon! Email reply might take a while, and we’ll be back on 3 May 2013.

We’ll try to instagram and FB update as much as we can, so feel free to follow us at http://www.instagram.com/raymondphangphotography, or like our facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/raymondphangphotography.

Cheers!!