Over the week I signed up for a photography conference called Charge Up, organize by live wire media. It’s a 4 day conference but due to some unforeseen issues I only manage to attend the 2 days, the 3rd day we were given as task/project and would work in a group to come up with a montage for certain NGO/Ministry. Sadly I wasn’t able to join the rest of my new friends there and since I was home all night, I decided to make this lil montage. Please don’t take this montage seriously as it’s meant to be a joke. 
Just to have some fun…since I missed the event.
Enjoy the montage yea!
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Charge Up 2010
January 17, 2010A New Year Resolution
December 31, 2009It’s almost the end of the year now, and it’s been one year and a half year since I started photography and owning my 1st ever camera. It’s been a fantastic journey so far. I’ve learn how to be a better person, make new friends…amazing friends, and not only have I get paid doing what I like, I get to make people happy with what I do. Besides that I’ve also got blessed with opportunities to shoot with people who I’ve admire from reading their blogs, Jenny Sun, Patrick Low, Edwin Tan and Andy Chin. This all would have been possible if it wasn’t for Grace Tan from Wedding Story and Alex Lam from Integricity and the team of people behind Shootfest. I’d believe that my journey would not have been boosted forward without this event and therefore I do owe you guys as well.
I started out learning my photography from forums and the internet, but with the guidance of my new found friends sight and perception with details and things around has changed. I’m not sure how exactly to put things in to words but I do sense the difference from what I see now when I walk around.
Besides meeting a whole bunch of great local photographer like Louis Pang, Robin Ng, Ian Chong, Jon Low and many many more I’ve also had the opportunity to meet greet and talk to international ones like Jerry Ghionis and CM Leung. I must admit it was a definately a great honor and pleasure to be able to talk to these people. I’ve been wanting to meet Jerry since I saw Masters of Wedding Photography and since then have fallen in love with the way he does his work. Hopefully next year I’ll get to meet Joe Mcnally who would be in KL for a workshop and seminar.
I would also like to take this opportunity to thank the ones beside me for their support and chance to grow my career in photography. Oh I must not forget the wonderful brides and grooms who I’ve shot too…without the chance to shoot your wedding I would not be who I am today or have grown to who I am. Thank you once more for entrusting me with probably the biggest event of your life, and you and your other half be bless with the joys of life.
I’ve decided to be a little more active next year in photography, not in terms of getting more jobs but in terms of using the camera more. With that I would TRY to take a picture a day and post it on flickr and maybe my blog. Hopefully I could successfully have a complete 365 album.
With that I would like to wish all of you a Happy New Year and may the coming year be better for all of us, I know I may have missed you many many names but it doesn’t I do not appreciate you help, advise or your presence in my life. You know who you are if you know me 
Kay Vintage Portrait Shoot
December 12, 2009It’s been a while since I last did any portrait session so I pushed myself to do something…and so I came up with an idea to try something with a touch of vintage at Heritage Hotel. I’ve visited the hotel once long ago for group pre-wedding shoot for some couple. I wasn’t too happy with most of my shots there so I made a return.
and lastly…a wrap up shot
Malaysia Super Series - Canon Workshop
December 10, 2009Canon Malaysia had a sports photography workshop last weekend, Sunday. The talked was held in Sepang and conducted by Ruddie Khaw. Since I’ve not shot in Sepang before and there was a workshop which would give me a chance to walk down the pits…so why not?
The weather was awesome that day, hot and cloudy at certain areas.
Joshua here giving us some briefing before we head out.
We then got to go to the pits..which was really cool..I’ve not been there before..so yea..it’s cool for me
Race about to start…
From the drivers face..well not really face, but their eyes you can see them all concentrating and focusing on the race…must be real hard to stay focus with the heat.
so the race starts…
rubber burns…rawr!
cars almost flipping over
after the race there were some happy faces…
and not so happy ones…
I love this shot somehow…it does tell a story on what happens after the race
lastly the winning car line up
and the winners
Cutie Pet Fair 2009
November 22, 2009I know this is a photography blog but I’m doing this for the sake of these beautiful pups which need a home. There’s this Cutie Pet Fair in Central Park in Bandar Utama (just beside 1 Utama) and there are some dog associations there which are offering pet adoptions. One of them is Malaysia Dogs Deserve Better and House of Happy Furmily. These 2 association or group may not be well known and to be honest even I am not aware of them till recently. I’m doing them a favor as I feel these dogs deserve a hand from us animal lovers and to play our small parts lets try to adopt or at least donate a few ringgit to them.
Details are on this poster, do drop by if you have some free time to check out the pet adoption
These dogs can be adopted with a low fee of RM50.00, so do help out in providing these lovable darlings a home and I’m sure they will be faithful and thankful to your deeds.
This cute buddy here had some injuries on his back, now that he is healed he is a pretty playful and active young chap, pay him a visit tomorrow.
April here is suffering from some heart issues, her medical fee is around RM100.00 ++ per month, If you happen to drop by please do donate something to House of Happy Furmily. One thing I like bout them is they do not set a limit or minimum requirement to the donation..so do your part and have some sympathy to these poor sick dogs and donate as much as you can
Inverted Coma Studio shoot (Individuals)
November 18, 2009Somehow I must have left this out, here some individual shots of Inverted Coma. Here’s their site address again www.inverted-coma.com. For those that haven’t heard of these guys…I would recommend that you drop by their site or facebook or myspace and take a listen to their tracks, I love em, not sure whats their genre to be honest but if you’re one of those who love the 90’s kind of music…I guess this is the band you would love too.
Here we have David on Vocals
Jason on Lead guitars
Raymond on rhythm
Julian on bass
and last group shot which was more a spontaneous shot when the guys were fooling around
Discovering the Apple
October 15, 2009
So about 2 weeks back I made an investment in getting a new notebook. It’s been some time since my last upgrade and I’ve decided to try out Apple, or some would refer it as Macintosh. There were several reason that made me consider this slight “jump” from a windows environment to a mac. One was it was said and claimed to be more stable and somewhat virus free. The mac does have its’ own virus but they don’t have that many compared to windows. But what really attracted me the most was when I was previewing the new OS X - Snow Leopard (version 10.6) which fascinated me as I saw things working fast and all.
So I’m sure you’ll be asking now..so what does this have to do with photography? Well…to share how I did my assignment with almost 0 knowledge on how things work on a mac..I manage to install programs and deliver my slides/pictures and present my work to my client in this a matter of days after buying the mac.
Oh I also forgot to mention that I went to the mac for 1 very important reason…the “wholesome” factor. In macs you pretty much can do most of your stuff from right out of the box. If you purchase one now you get Ilife which has idvd, imovie, iphoto, garage band and iweb. I’ve seen garage band in action and I do write some songs on my own last time..it’s really impressive with how easy it is to use. Idvd is also awesome for making dvd and it doesn’t take long. Along side with the other application it really makes the mac a complete multimedia machine for those who wants to create simple videos,blogs,web pages and almost everything related to media.
There’s of course some bad points which i find it really annoying, the wireless device isn’t very strong. I’m getting constant disconnection at my home in certain areas. But overall it has been a good experience and now I see why the influence of mac is getting stronger among others.
For those who wish to get themselves a macbook pro for photography usage. I would say the minimal 2 GB ram isn’t really enough if you’re concern with speed. I think moving to 4GB would be better as I run lightroom 2.5 and also photoshop cs4.
Oh oh before I forget, you know notebook these days don’t give you a windows cd or dvd when you buy a new one now? Usually they come with a recovery disc that has some bundled junk in them. I’ve tested some brands lately, Toshiba, Acer, HP and IBM’s and I must say I don’t fancy any of them anymore. Reason to this is because most of the time they take too long just to reinstall a simple operating system, and what made me furious the other day was Acer recovery disc had the wrong drivers loaded on to them! So I’m forced to redownload the drivers from the internet..so what if I have not internet?
Mac hasn’t gave me this problem so far and mine doesn’t come with a recovery disc. I hope they maintain this as this would make me a life long supporter if they do.
Ok probably enough promotion here and here some slick looking pictures taken from my bedroom.
To sum it up, it’s been a good experience so far being able to do most stuff on my mac without worrying about installing, finding and knowing which programs to work with which. Most programs are able to work with each other so it’s good and best of all things are made simple, so anyone can just pick up and produce professional looking work.
With this I end my sales pitch, I wonder if apple will send me some new stuff to test *hint hint*
Shi Ley and Jeffrey maternity shoot sneak preview
August 19, 2009It was a lovely Saturday Morning that we decided to have this lovely shot taken in a park. Shi Ley whos now 7 months pregnant is about to be a mother to her first born. This was my first maternity shot and it was a blast, though it wasn’t as long as the other shots I’ve done, Shi Ley and Jeffrey got comfortable with the camera very fast and was a breeze for me to just go on with what I do best.
Here’s a sneak preview of what’s coming up soon.
