Here’s a random update on what’s happening at Raymond Phang Photography today. Raymond and Ben are out shooting since morning, will be back later for a break before continuing the next session till past 11pm. They’re both dressed in sleek black formal attire, so they look something like this now;

RayBen the Men in Black. Minus the watches, the hair for Raymond, the white shirts inside, and the tie. -_-”

Susu’s ears are feasting on loud music with her earphones plugged in, and her eyes are feasting on photo editing.

I became a chef and prepared lunch for the RayBen and text them the menu;

Fragrant Lice with Dragon Scale
Why the Cow jumped over the Fence
Together we Trotter
The Love of Panda
The Wedding Luncheon
Poppy Tuesday Water

Which are actually Plain white rice with Bak Kwa, Broccolis and Veggies, Pig Trotter in Vinegar, Bamboo Shoots, Luncheon Meat, and Corn/Carrot/Potato/Tomato soup.
Now the Chef is back to blog and then reply the emails.

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Anyway, here’s a quick update on one of our conceptualised pre-wedding series. We actually shot this last year in August, and we still have quite a number of backlogs which we haven’t got the time to share.

This is a Poker card game themed concept photo shoot, shot on a rainy day in Singapore.

Diamond – It works everytime. “Queen of Gambler” showed hand for this round and the “Saint of Gambler” won the game with the Diamond 3 card in hand. It’s also actually an intended pun. Kekeke. Diamond is a girl’s best friend, and for this case the Diamond happens to be a guy’s best friend too!

Disclaimer: No pocket was burnt in the process of the photoshoot and gambling as a vice activity is strongly discouraged.

Special thanks to Deming for helping out at the photoshoot, throwing poker cards, throwing “money”, playing the role of the Croupier plus right hand man, and carrying the props! Raymond, Ben,  myself and Susu enjoyed this session, especially when we have such a dedicated and committed couple! Cheryl (“Queen of Gambler”) is an awesome help and she is extremely capable! Tony (“Saint of Gambler”) was super funny and very good in creating the mood for the shoot. Hahahahaha!!  We’re really thankful for their trust and co-operation, and most of all for appreciating our photography work!

Awfully Raymondlate. HAHAHA~ Actually it’s a post-it note with Raymond’s name on the box and I stuck it to cover the Chocolate word.

There you go! Damn awesome damn chocolatey chocolate cake!!

And there’s a Thank You note as well… Hehehe…. As usual, the cake monster finished most of it at one go.
Till the next update with more images, take care!

Lots of Love,
Angeline

We did a quick Lou Hei together, but instead of the Four Lettered Words, we spewed things like “10 boyfriends for Susu”, “早生贵子” for Ben and Becky (even though they’re not yet married) etc. It’s a 乱七八糟乱乱捞 lou hei session for us… and we actually forgot to say RPP HUAT AH! Hahahahaha! That gives me the excuse to Lou a second time… then I can feast on the yummy Yu Sheng again. Kekeke.

Anyway, Roy and Amy engaged Raymond to do their conceptualised pre-wedding where Ben and I assisted for the shoot on two different days.

Conceptualised pre-wedding by Raymond Phang – this was shot when the Adidas Sundown Marathon race was about to begin. Chaotic, mad rush, but glad it turned out well.

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And here’s the set of actual day wedding images by Ben, with MooMedia for the Cinematography;

Ben will tend to take note of little details on the wedding day, such as the time, the surrounding area (which most people don’t really take the time to have a good look despite living there for years), couples’ love momentos to each other, trophies etc… which speaks a lot for the couple throughout their growing up years.

While Amy was in the room having her hair and make up done by Joanne Low, here’s what happened on the outside… Love the mood here.

Here’s Amy the bride and one of the jiemei peeking out. Love her expression! Hahaha~

Top :: The convertible dresses on the sisters are really versatile, you can wear it in a million ways! Maybe not exactly a million, but you get the drift… you can wear it in many many different ways! Love the royal purple color!

Just a side note, for brides looking for bridesmaid dresses, maybe you can also check out this shop named Occasion at Raffles City Shopping Centre. If I’m not wrong, the shop is located at #03-29B. I happened to pop by few months back and saw quite a number of bridesmaid dresses in different patterns and sweet colors. Price is reasonable, and if I didn’t remember wrongly, they have a price tier for the number of dresses you purchase.

Bottom Left :: The cakes seemed too good to be true for a gate crashing right? Heh heh heh heh…

Bottom Right :: Here’s the actual one… instead of delicious Nasi Lemak wrapped in Banana Leaf or Fried Hokkien Mee wrapped in Opeh Leaf, the sisters wrapped the food in diapers. *coughs*

The bride is ready!

And now… let the gate crashing begin!


Roy is now a certified and highly trained daddy because he now knows how to take care of a Baby! Kekeke.

Yes, an empty red packet for the sisters.

Moving off to Roy’s place…

We have Vince and Yubing here for the tea ceremony!! Vince and Roy are brothers, and we shot Vince’s wedding in November 2010!

This image came about right after Roy carried Amy into the bedroom. Teeheeheehee~ So cute!

Loving the cute moments… I mean, how often do we get to see something like this when the wedding ceremony is over? Especially the image on top where Amy fed Roy with the Tang Yuan?

Here’s one of Ben’s Feet Touch Feet!

The view from opposite.

Love Nicole and Kaylyn’s expression.

Here comes a ring shot.

An image of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel Wedding Cake.

Roy and Amy had their solemnization on the same day, and they engaged my favourite Justice of Peace/Solemnizer (JP) Dr Phua Tan Tee!

Dr Phua Tan Tee gives people a warm fuzzy feeling with a fatherly figure, he’s good with English, Mandarin, and also Hokkien! He never fails to liven up the ceremony with his jokes and advices.

And I loooooveeeee.. the way you loooook at meeeeee….

Amy’s beautiful wedding dress is from Divine Couture!

A close up shot of Dr Phua Tan Tee!

Here’s Kenneth & Martin the awesome emcees for the evening.

Ashton the Page Boy holding the bouquet of flowers, quietly following behind Nicole and Kaylyn the two flower girls.

Lights dimmed for the next segment of the dinner banquet – The Wedding Dance!!

Champagne Popping – one of my favourite part because of the interesting expression when couple try to pop the champagne. Hehehe.

Again, it’s the various interesting expressions which works for me here.

Couple gave a speech..

And the guests don’t know whether is laugh until cry or cry until laugh. :p

YUUUUUUUMMMM SEEEEEENNNGGGGG!!

The farewells with plenty of hugs..

Love this image too!

More hugs..

And a kiss to end the day.

Mandarin Oriental is one of our favourite hotels with impressive quality of service and food. Not forgetting they have a powerful weapon – the all capable Bethany!! She has a super duper powerful memory, she remembers the slightest details and names of couples getting married in Oriental even though their wedding is not handled by her! Do consider Mandarin Oriental if you’re clueless on where to hold your wedding banquet. Of course it will be good to check for availability and book early to avoid disappointment as well. That’s a piece of advice we give to couples, and the same advice that couples feedback to us after the wedding too. Hahahaha!

Have a happy weekend! Cheers!

Lots of Love,
Angeline

Hero or Villian? Hmm… But sweetheart is definitely most appropriate for she is a sweet lady! (:

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And here’s a long overdue update on Raymond Phang’s recent achievement on winning the third place for the WPPI 2011 Second half online competition for the Bride and Groom Together wedding category. This image of the couple with the star trails was taken in New Zealand last year in April. Everytime when I see this image, it never fails to bring back fond memories. Shooting in New Zealand was awesome! Although the weather was a little chilly and the wind was super strong, we had a lot of fun! It just feel so relaxed in New Zealand as compared to shooting a conceptualised pre-wedding in Singapore.

We will be visiting the beautiful country again this year in April, and we are currently left with 1 last slot for our Botaks Combo (super affordable package for local actual day + conceptualised pre-wedding in new zealand + casual bridal in new zealand). Do email us at contactme@raymondphang.com to enquire ya? This New Zealand shoot is for couples who are getting married in the months of late September/October 2012 onwards. Cheers!

Love,
Angeline

Feedback welcome on this set of images. This is the first time im trying a rangefinder so please be gentle! Most of the shots are taken at waist level without focusing thru the rangefinder with a rough gague of the distance. The m9p makes me feel like a photographer again! Haha!

Hope you guys will enjoy this series – my virgin try at wedding with the Leica M9-P. Happy Boxing Day!

Happy Boxing Day to you guys!

Love,
Raymond Phang

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And here’s an interesting quote from a friend, which sets me thinking;

‎”We are often too busy with our own things and not aware of what is around us. We tend to rush even taking pictures of beautiful things we see. A friend told me that the actual scenery is much more beautiful than the photo. A camera could only capture 1/10 of what we can see. The best camera is your eyes, the best album is your memory. Use your eyes and heart to feel…”

Hmm… So what do you think?

Love,
Angeline

The Leica S2 is built like an ordinary sized full frame DSLR camera albeit a little bigger, and I thought it looked like a simple quiet fella when I displayed it out on the table alongside my Canon 5D Mark II. Leica S2 just feels like the kind of guy who has been rejected, ostracized and outcast by the society with his head hanging low in a dark corner. Looking modest, simple and clean with very few buttons, the Canon 5D Mark II just seemed to look a little flashy side by side. But what I was about to find out later when I tested the camera got me dumbfounded.

The resolution produced by the waterproof body camera with a 30mm x 45mm sensor which was larger than a standard 35mm full frame DSLR was simply mind blowing at 37.5 megapixels. I can shoot an image, crop in the eye lashes at 100% and it’s still has enough resolution to print tack sharp 8”x12” prints. The tiny details that are often pixilated become so obvious now. Every crease, folds, tiny hairs, wrinkles (woooopps) are captured in minute precision. However you’ll either need to make sure your hands are steady like the tripod or you’ll need a tripod for maximum results as the shutter mirror slap is insanely different from the run of the mill DSLRs. The slightest movement can easily cause an image to go out of focus. The AF (auto focus) is quite accurate but you won’t want to expect it to be as fast as the standard DSLR cameras.  But once it locks on to the subject, it WILL be piercingly sharp. The legendary Leica lens brings life to the image and subjects simply pops out – almost 3d like. Talk about 3d needing 3d glasses!

One exciting feature that can really put my mind at east for all my shoots is the dual memory card slots design, a feature I require that’s lacking on the 5D mk2 unfortunately. The Leica S2 is designed to house two separate cards – a Compact Flash (CF card) and a Secure Digital (SD card) simultaneously. You can program the camera to write RAW files to one card and JPEG to the other or write RAW files to both cards at the same time, creating an automatic in-the-field backup. Not only that, you also have the flexibility to program the Leica S2 camera to write sequentially so that when the first card is full, it will automatically write to the second card.

If you’re looking for features which are getting common in cameras such as the HD video mode, or the various scene modes which comes with color filters and various settings in-camera, then you’ll be sorely disappointed. You might ask, “Hey! The camera body alone cost thirty over grand but doesn’t do all the bell and whistles of a sub thousand dollar camera?!” Kid you not, this beast is in a league of it’s own.  The Leica S2 is designed for the top end professional market where features practical to the photographers are heavily emphasized on, such as the dual-shutter system. This allows you to select the camera’s built-in focal plane shutter OR the built-in leaf shutter for insane flash sync speeds of 1/1600 seconds. You can severely kill the sunlight outdoors using flash while maintaining nice bokeh blur as you no longer have to crank up the aperture – strobists should understand how useful that can be!

The Leica S2 is like what the Chinese always say “wo hu cang long” – crouching tiger hidden dragon. This baby will not be as useful in my Actual Day shoots when sometimes speed is the key to a make or break image, but it will definitely be a lot of help for my conceptualized pre-wedding shoots where I can control most elements inside the picture. However note that the Leica S2 is not designed to compete with the professional series from major manufacturers such as Canon or Nikon. The Leica S2 is in a league of its own.

Presenting the Big Old Board  (Da Lao Ban) of Raymond Phang Photography! He looks like he can drink some “Jia Jia Herbal Tea”.

No, I think he need a dozen cans of Beer, a carton of Jia Jia Herbal Tea, a truckload of Oldenlandia Water, and a sea of Watermelon juice to cool him down.

His anger appeased after drawing our faces to make us look like monkeys.

Don’t you think he look so much lovely now?

Introducing – SUSU! She’s the Digital Plastic Surgeon at Raymond Phang Photography! She’s an expert in painting the details of your beautiful wedding gown, she can give you 8 packs without making it look too fake like a plastron, and magically erase your pimple/wrinkles away.

Of course she can do much more than that. Err… does burping loudly and saying excuse me right after, attempting to do a nonchalant fart in your face and raiding the fridge counts?

Next up would be Mr Benedict Chan a.k.a Ben Chan! Ben is an awesome photographer with Raymond Phang Photography, and one of the most hardworking one here too.

Besides Photography, Ben also enjoys Long Boarding. Here’s Ben posing with a safety cone which he uses for practice and his cute little white doggie side kick named Xiao Bai.

Here’s Xiao Bai practicing Yoga on the long board with Ben generously showing off his protruding plastron which was a work of art specially designed by Susu. You can have one too!

Ben is now wearing the Emperor’s Clothes… Ben is fierce with his temporary tattoo on his arm. So temporary that there’s no need to wash it away or peel it off after the shoot. The tattoo only appeared in this one picture. Again, all thanks to Susu.

Every company has a sai gang warrior, and here’s the one from Raymond Phang Photography – ANGELINE!

All the faces are painted by Angeline who wanted to make everyone ugly. LOL!

We still have two naughty Chihuahuas – Bailey and Satin to be photographed, but it was way too late already. We had fun making all the props though – the giant cigarette, dung crown and all. Haha. Hope you guys enjoy this series! Cheers!

Peace out!
Raymond Phang & Angeline

We don’t usually do this, but this time round to spread the joy (besides having a mini celebration by binging on chocolate cakes ourselves)…. we’re offering to all couples……

20% off all wedding photography packages / services by Raymond Phang!!

Yup, 20% off for ROM/Solemnisation, Actual Day Wedding, and even the Local + Overseas Conceptualised Pre-Wedding, or Post wedding. Despite giving a 20% off Raymond Phang’s photography service rates, rest assure we’ll put in an additional 200% of our love and effort in all the shoots + editing. Hehehe.

However kindly note that the promo is only valid till 31 December 2011 for new sign ups of Raymond Phang’s wedding photography services and cannot be used together with our “Botaks Combo” .

For bookings or enquiries, please kindly email us at contactme @ raymondphang.com. Do include the code “Hurray!” and we’ll get back to you in the fastest time we can.

Check out our Facebook Page at http://www.facebook.com/raymondphangphotography for updates, and have a merry merry weekend!!

Love,
Angeline

The next photography contest that Raymond Phang entered was the ISPWP (International Society of Professional Wedding Photographers) Fall 2011 contest. We received seven placings in different categories, and was placed third in the Top 20 Overall winners of the Fall 2011 Wedding Photography Contest.

The following are the seven individual images;

5th Place in Movement and Motion Category

7th Place in Venue/Location Category

1st Place in Engagement Portrait Category

1st Place in Venue/Location Category

11th Place in Venue/Location Category

10th Place in The Wedding Dress Category

2nd Place in Bridal Party Portrait Category

Time now is 2359, just nice!!!!! And no lor sor naggy long winded stories…  Hehehehehehehe~ Do keep a lookout for our Promo entry tomorrow in celebration of these mini achievements which we couldn’t have done it without our awesome couples!! Cheers!!!

Love,
Angeline

Raymond went for the MPA (The Master Photographers Association) judging with the following 20 print images and he has been promoted to be a qualified AMPA (Associate) Photographer. That’s a good baby step from the previous Licentiate qualification.

Other than the MPA judging for the qualification for Associate, Raymond’s images has also received a Highly Commended award in the Contemporary Wedding Category, Winner for the Contemporary Wedding Category and Finalist for the Yervant Bridal Award, Award of Excellence in the Dennis Hylander Wedding Award in the Master Photography Awards 2011 competition, together with 10 Merits achievement.

The following are the 20 prints submitted for the judging;

Featuring Roy and Amy who have been really supportive of us since the beginning! I remember having to squeeze myself against the wall as much as possible cos of Raymond’s specific requirements for the lightings. And also how the security personnel was watching us and so on-the-dot to help us keep track of the remaining time we have to shoot in the museum.

Known as the Sleeping Beauty, this is Shuqin doing a super good job in looking all peaceful and serene despite having to suffer by laying on the steps for this shot. I’ll never forget how I drove the golf buggy and flung Raymond out cos I mounted the kerb on full acceleration. The remaining of the session was shot by a “handicapped” Raymond with bleeding knees cos he suffered quite a big patch of wound. Kekekeke. :X

Lokie & Lydia with the inverted “Love” or Super Mario Plant…This is the image that bagged the Winner for the Contemporary Wedding Category, as well as Finalist for the Yervant Bridal Award.

Don’t you just love her feathery gown with so much details?? Susu loves gown with so much details… An awesome and enjoyable session with the couple depiste the many many mosquito bites.

Lokie and Lydia holding hands, skipping here and skipping there. Poor Susu had to sit far away at the bench alone and look after our belongings while Raymond, Dominic and I went ahead to explore the area and snap snap for Lokie and Lydia.

Lokie and Lydia sneaking a dirty kiss! Muwahahahaha~ Early in the morning and we were carrying quite a lot of barangs barangs, especially the peachy pink color coat, the fatty jackets, bags of equipment, tripod, lightstands and all.

Lokie and Lydia on Charles Bridge… By the way a lot of people have been asking about the smoke from the Chimney..  It’s real. It was quite a challenge getting a clear shot cos the bridge is filled with people and Raymond was shooting from far. Some of the passerbys actually stopped infront of our camera unknowingly to see what’s going on, and we had to NG a couple of times because of that. Some people even kept taking pictures of Lokie and Lydia too! Hahaha~

Kangwei & Shuqin surrounded by walls of psychedelic colors. :P
I can’t describe how scorching hot the sun was, and they were standing at the balcony with the sun shining from the top. Imagine a person can perspire even wearing just a tshirt… what about the couple in heavy gown and full suit! But they were still very game on for the shot.

Colin and Emily in New Zealand with the Star Trail! Still remains as one of our all time favorite piece. This location was not our intended place of shoot for this scene, but Raymond was exploring the area and happened to discover this off road place perfect for this scene. No buildings, no lights, no nothing! Except the prettiest moon I’ve ever seen in my life and the billions of stars in the sky… Kekeke. It was super chaotic, with the strong wind blowing! We spent quite some time setting up the tent (which broke in the end by the strong wind), and we had to keep attending to the “campfire” cos it kept going off.

Then Raymond sent the couple out to the roads to get their car so that they can go back to their hotel, while Susu and I were left in the wilderness and it was super dark! We could have just died there if a pack of wolves or vampires decide to come out and hunt for supper, and it was soooooooooooooooooooooooo freaking cold I suggested to Susu to squat down so that we minimise wind exposure to our body. Then we decided to take a picture of ourselves just in case anything happen to us and this would be our last picture together. It was too dark for the camera to focus and we had to take 2 torches out and shine on ourselves. -_-”

Eddie and Aileen kissy kissy inside the Honda Airwave. Love the skyroof of this car. Kekeke. I can still remember the car battery was dead by the end of the shoot, and we had to call our beloved friend Mr Ang ZQ for help. He was so sweet to bring dinner for us, and very thoughtful to keep it warm by putting it inside his boot!

Eddie and Aileen kissy kissy again in Zouk! I remember seeing how Aileen was doing her own make up in SOHO before they head out for the shoot, and I couldn’t tag along cos I was feeling unwell. But super glad everything turned out so nicely with the help of Dominic, Joy, Majella and Susu!

Lokie and Lydia in Prague, kissy kissy on Charles Bridge on a freezing cold super early morning. While shooting the security personnel kept coming to us and told us we’re not allowed to take wedding pictures there… Hmm…

That’s Irvin and Carrie, shot at the railway track. Makeup artist Jyue Huey was super duper nice to stay on and help around, and also went all the way out to buy us MacDonald’s for lunch despite the rain! I will remember how Carrie specially ordered the giant Red Balloon from US and how the Balloon flew away when Kenneth was “looking after it”.

We had Bush, Joy, Majella, Susu and myself assisting for this session! We explored quite a number of places which required a certain level of PR skills to get in to shoot. Kekeke. Love this Peeping Jane image! Luckily Aileen was not wearing those long gown otherwise confirm chop it’ll be wet cos the floor was slippery with soap water. Despite the rainy weather, we still had a lot of fun and managed to capture some yummy pictures!

Oooohhh one of my favourite and the only series where the couple did a cross dress!! Do you know Private actually dislike having pictures of him taken? Yet he was so game to agree to doing a shoot with us! Not an ordinary shoot, but a cross dress one! BRAVOOOO!! Very happy for you guys that you’re finally married!! Hehehehehehe~

Ok this “painting room” is hot and stuffy cos before we took this shot, the workshop folks were actually baking a freshly painted car inside here. You know, car workshop environment is pretty hot and noisy, and the couple had to bear with all the discomfit to complete the shoot with us! And they were totally burnt out, having to redo and redo until Raymond gets the right expression that he’s looking for. So while him and Susu were setting up the lightings for this, I sneaked down to the coffeeshop to buy drinks for everyone. All of us drank like thirsty camel. After we wrapped up, Susu actually had fun smashing light tubes (wearing safety helmet and safety goggles) and Raymond had fun snapping away while I had fun hiding in one corner till they were done. :P

That’s Roy and Amy in Sleep can wait! Hahaha! We didn’t know that’s the tagline for this year’s Adidas Sundown Marathon, and we already have the snoozing concept before the couple went ahead to liaise with the management for permission to do the shoot on the Marathon day. So just nice, the snoozing concept and the tagline fits perfectly cos they’re so ironic. Hahahaha~

Sometimes when I plan for the props to be used for the shoot, I’ll try to think in the couple’s shoes… It’ll be quite a madness to get a mattress, so I told them they can just bring some thick comforters to do a makeshift bed. But Raymond wanted everything to look as real and ridiculous as possible, wanted Amy to bring a real mattress…. at such a last minute notice, I thought he was insane… but guess what, the couple really brought a mattress for the shoot!!!!!!

This scene was quite a chop chop snap and go, cos the organiser kept rushing us to clear immediately cos they were about to start the race. But it was all good fun and I got to excercise by running up and down during the scene where they changed into gown cos Raymond was shooting with the 70-200 from far and it was too noisy to shout across, so I became the “Pigeon” messenger. But I too heavy cannot fly, so I had to run instead. Muwahahahahaha! :P

Tony and Cheryl throwing moneyyyyyyyyyyy.. of course those are not real money. Hahahaha! The couple had to print the money with the Specimen word stamped across, and cut them nicely to be used for the shoot. Cheryl is an extremely capable lady, and she takes charge of all the logistic matters! Our shoot wouldn’t have been possible without her, especially when we did a “zhu ge liang” scene with bout 20 over people in a single frame, with every individual wearing specific costumes. So after this scene all of us went for dinner together and we had the spicy buffalo wings… being the chilli noob that I am, Level 1 was enough to send me to hell… -_-”

TP & Eileen in Sepang!! I’ve seen images of the Sepang circuit that Raymond took when he was shooting for their endurance race few years back. But this time I get to sit the propellor FireFlyz plane which was so damn cool, and also explore the entire Sepang circuit with nobody around. It was early in the morning, all was calm and peaceful… That’s “A” in bikini and “WB” at the back working on the fire extinguisher. Poor “A” had to be the bikini girl after losing to “WB” in the game of scissors paper stone. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! But “A” was an extremely good sport, he was sooo good at posing girly and posing flirty. But TP and TJ had to drive around the circuit to clear their cars of the powder from the fire extinguisher and gave their cars a good wash after that.

Ben, Raymond and myself totally enjoyed ourselves at the shoot, and TP + Eileen were extremely good host to bring us around for all the awesome makan. *drools*…

And this image scored the Highly Commended award in the Contemporary Wedding Category.

Big thank you to Jeffrey for his help!! Without him we might have a lot of problems shooting in such an awesome location. I remember it was early in the morning with no one around, and we needed more space so we took the liberty to shift the cartons of bottled water which was in our way. Then this guy came over to us and told us we are not allowed to shift the bottled water ourselves, if we need anything we have to let them know, and bottled water cannot be placed directly on the floor, need to put them on the platform etc. It was only then we know that guy is Jeffrey cos the couple haven’t arrived yet so we didn’t know who was Jeffrey. Kekekekeke.

Shing Wa and Lynnette went to a number of wet markets to hunt for the smelly trout for the shoot! Those sun dried ones with the heads are pretty common, but they managed to snag this for the shoot  – a complete fish which was pretty huge and still a little slimy! So when she fished it out from the plastic bag and newspaper, the stinky smell starts to roam around the place and attacked our nose. Poor Shing Wa had the closest encounter with the smelly trout cos Lynnette actually had to slap Shing Wa’s face with it. Big sacrifice!!! Hehehehe.

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This image is not among the 20 prints for judging, but scored an Award of Excellence in the Dennis Hylander Wedding Award.

An image of Roger and Lydia taken on an actual day wedding, this motion car shots is actually one of Raymond’s signature wedding shots. Hehehe.

Thank you guys for all your love and support! Thank you Boss for giving me time to write this “lor sor” entry, cos I had a lot of fun reminiscing… like I said in my previous blog entry, I will always remember our couples who did their conceptualised pre-wedding with us, and the nitty gritty details of things that happened during the shoots. I do remember our AD couples too!! But because I was more involved in the pre than the AD, so I tend to have more recollection of what happened. Hehehe.

Also a special big thank you to all the awesome “old birds” in the industry & qualification judges for all your valuable comments + critics and pointers! It’s through these honest feedbacks that we get to learn and improve, and we really appreciate all the teachings & sharing with no holding back. We will definitely remember the points to look out for in our images & the areas to work on. Hopefully we’ll get them corrected & come back even better next year.

Till the next update tomorrow, keep warm and fuzzy on this cold rainy day ya? Cheers! :)

Love,
Angeline

Anyway, for brides to be who cares alot about how they look like on their wedding day, it’s good to diet a little (eat the healthy way, but not over dieting cos it’s bad for your body), start slowly on a regular exercise regime, introduce leafy veggies and fruits to your meals, and be happy! A firm and toned skin/body definitely looks better than a flapping butterfly (of which I’m guilty of), and when you’re happy, you’ll have that natural radiance glowing around you.

Cos I realised that the camera is quite an evil object… it can capture even the slightest frown, and someshow we tend to look a teeny weeny bit rounder in the pictures. The camera doesn’t lie… it’s the post processing that does. Kekeke.

Ok back to topic! Here’s a few images taken by Ben Chan on Choon Kwang and Elizabeth’s solemnisation dinner on 11 November 2011 at 1827.

For those who don’t already know, 1827 is actually a Thai Restaurant located at the Arts House of Old Parliament. I kinda like the interior with a bold combination of red / black / gold colours. Before the official solemnization ceremony began, the couple engaged us for a good 2-3 hours of casual photoshoot around the restaurant and vicinity.

The following images are photographed by Ben Chan, and I love how CK + Liz totally enjoyed themselves during the photoshoot… Casual, relaxed, and most importantly – happy!

I think it’s just so hard to get Liz to act serious, cos she’s really a walking sunshine!

Hope you guys love this mini series, till the next, take care!

Love,
Angeline