Hon Yuen & Amanda - 21 Mac 2009

Hon Yuen married his love and friend of 10 years, Amanda Ong, today. Amanda is the sweetest girl I've gotten the opportunity to work with in my company and am so glad I was there to capture this happy moment for her and him.

The day started with a ROM at the KL & Selangor Chinese Assembly Hall and ended in a beautiful garden dinner in Mines Palace & Beach Spa. It was indeed a pleasure to shoot as they and their family members were always smiling and were genuinely happy for her and Hon Yuen. Congratulations once again, Amanda & Hon Yuen.

Check out this first ever 360 view of the wedding dinner by my partner, Sam of DigitalShoeBox.

1 . Garden dinner
2. Make-Up session

Amanda making her lifetime commitment.

The happily married couple. :)

A wedding car which was decorated on their own.

A make-up session before the dinner.

We took a stroll around the hotel for some pre-wedding shots.

Some shots of the garden dinner ....

Charge Up Conference 2009 @ Penang Christian Centre

This year's Charge Up in PCC (26 Feb 09 - 1 Mac 09) was rewarding as I attended as a helper to the mentor in the Photography stream. It was a great time getting to know new friends like Adrian Pui, Karen Wai, Alex Wong, John Wong, Rachel Kedung, Marie Peh, Evelyn Lim, Eleni Krishnan, Mei Yen, Siew Ching and many others. I have friends in so many churches now. Yippee!

The Power Up sessions with Ps Victor Wong was a blessing as his sermons are indeed funny and real. Fellowship with people I've met before was refreshing as well and Jonathan Kwok was a real huge encourager to my group and me. Grace Tan was a wonderful teacher to the group and during her special sessions on Exposure and Post-Processing. It was also an honour to meet a truly humble yet popular Penang photographer from WhizArts, Ke Wynn. I feel touched by his humility when he helped take out garbage though he was our guest trainer. Joseph Siew was the gadget guy as he did upside down shoots with his camera and talked about accessories. :) Mark Leo & Ian Salang were cool peeps to be around with. Though the hours were long and there was much to do, kudos to Choon Ean, the chairperson for successfully organizing this event though she had a cast around her sprained right leg all the time.

I haven't found the time to download the pix I took of the people I met and the behind-the-scenes pix but stay tune and it'll be up soon.

These are some of the random ones I took during the 4-day sessions.

Cactus pix to show depth-of-field.

Low angle to capture the flare. That's Lilian in the pix.

Beautiful tree just outside the PCC.

Pix of things in the beautiful antique Peranakan Mansion along Church Street:

The pretty broken brick pathway at the Protestant Cementery where we went to do our group project shoot.

MY FM Living with JYN Launch 19 February 2009

19 February 2009, KL: At Sg. Wang Plaza main entrance, KL today from 6am to 10am, the MY FM Living with JYN campaign was launched with 700 participants. The selected candidates came to redeem their cut-outs and then took a mass oath.

See the amount of people with the cut-out of the pix I took. :) So happy. It'll be out in the local papers soon.

This is the website that's live on http://www.my.com.my/. Check it out: http://www.my.com.my/oap/09/myfm_brands/default.asp

Design done by Jason Ding: http://jasonding.wordpress.com/

My photo on MY FM Living with JYN campaign

The final photo has been chosen and made into standees, posters, wrap-arounds and a press ad by the client's creative agency, Speers.

It's a happy day.

If you see them in the newspapers, BRAND'S essence of chicken packaging or posters in the chinese medicine shops, you'll know who took the picture. :)

Too bad there's no credit mention and it was a free job but it's ok. Of course, can always do better than this.

This was the original shot:

These are the POSM ads done by the agency.

This is the group poster:

This is the 5ft standee to be placed in shops:

This is the individual posters to be placed in shops all around Malaysia:

This is the ad on 15 Feb 2009 in Guang Ming newspaper:

This is the BRAND'S package wrapper / sticker:

MY FM is the number 1 Chinese radio station this year, with 2.2 milion listeners, and also for the past 10 years in Malaysia. The 3 announcers photographed are the number 1 Chinese Breakfast Crew in the country.

Shooting with MY FM

Though I've told myself quite a few times to not take a free job, I gave in to this one as they needed immediate photos of the announcers for an upcoming campaign and red tape work would take at least a week while I can do it in 24 hours.

As a virgin user of portable (or big & bulky) studio lights, I tried to jump over the hurdles of having to set-up in 15 min, being chased to finish the shoot in half hour due to the announcers' tight schedule, having no physical guidance from a guru (had a crash course on studio light set-up from Sam 2 hours before the shoot), not having any suitable white backdrop but using what's available in Astro building and having to make do with a few experiments to rid the shadows on the clothes - I came up with these pictures. Unfortunately, the shadows problem was not resolved.

Hope the sponsoring client will be happy with them. Only heard a compliment from Jack, the announcer and one from an agency doing the cropping. :)

Anyway, if any of the pictures are chosen, you'll be seeing them in life-size at chinese medicine shops around Klang Valley. :) Will update that when I see them displayed.

MY FM is the number 1 Chinese radio station this year and also for the past 10 years in Malaysia. The 3 announcers photographed are the number 1 Chinese Breakfast Crew in the country.