I like the small intimate affair they have here. Outdoor wedding is always so much nicer than doing it inside a hotel ballroom but Singapore weather is just crazily hot. It’s either you have the rain or the heat and I prefer neither.

From meeting to confirming to discussion to the actual shoot, the whole procedure with Nan & Yao was done in less than a week. All I knew about them was through that brief discussion we had. I usually prefer to recce the place before the shoot so that it allows me to shoot something that is the most meaningful to the couple. I love to shoot images that are as close to who the couple are as possible so when they look at their pictures in years to come, it’ll still put a grin on their face.

Nonetheless, we had a good shoot. The shoot turn out well despite the rush. The rain in the morning was little of a spoiler but it didn’t dampen out mood. More of their images in my Facebook fan page soon. Meanwhile, here’s a few.

We split the shoot into 2 days to avoid the rain the evening and all I can say is it’s well worth the torture of waking up early in the morning. The light is fabulous and not only can we have a more relax shoot, we are all warm up for the actual gown shoot. It definitely benefit both parties.

So, for all who wish to do their pre-wed shoot, for the same old good price, I’ll be able to split the shoot into 2 days, with a 3 hours casual on one day and the gown shoot on another day.

Here are some shots from their casual session.

Nonetheless, I did lots of thinking about life, about the people around me and about Walldrobe. It’s only during this period that I have all the time in the world to think through what I’ve done for the past year and what can be done better. Well, it’s still a good break away from my computer and it feel so fresh when I look at the images from my backlog all over again.

“Hey, wanna meet for dinner?”

“Erm.so sorry, I don’t think I can make it.”

“You sure bo, you should be the most free person among us leh. We work like mad 5 days a week. You shoot 1 day a week then everyday stay at home one leh.”

So, what are we doing for the rest of the week? Well, I frequently see myself as a graphic artist doing editing work for my pictures, doing album design for my clients, as an IT guy troubleshooting whatever problem my pc has, as an admin clerk doing my book keeping, replying emails, meetings clients…etc. The most frequent hat I wear next to the graphic artist hat will be the IT hat. With social networking site like Facebook and blogs, it has totally change our life in terms of updating of our work. And man, you can’t imagine how much troubleshooting I do every now and then, be it hardware problems or software problems until you work your machines real hard everyday. To think about it, ever since I became a wedding photographer, my working hours has become much longer then when I was working in the corporate world. Every day of shoot means countless days behind the computer doing editing of the pictures.

If we were to shoot 40 weddings a year, it means we only take pictures 40 days out of the 365 days a year which translate to just 10% of our total workload. In fact, taking pictures has become so secondary that I view a shooting day as a day for me to get away from my daily mundane work.

It’ll be great if I can concentrate on what I like to do most – shooting, rather then all the other stuff. But if you ask me again, I’d still say I love my job.

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Is it just me or is Facebook really slow. I’m getting a little annoyed by the forever loading mode Facebook is especially at night. Also, for those who don’t check out Facebook regularly, I’ll be updating my work here instead of just Facebook alone.

I’m still working on Vincent and Soh Peng’s pictures but it’ll be completed real soon. Here’s a few images I like.

There are many genres in group photos and one particular type is the table shots. During your big day, ask yourself do you really need the table shots to be taken or would you prefer your photographer to be engaged in shooting other more important moments? Or would you prefer engaging someone else, probably your friends to cover the table shots for you and to release your photographer earlier? After all, you are paying him not for the table shots right?

Well, group photos can be nice when all of us do our part by not just standing there for the photographer. True, we are not as expressive as the Caucasians but whatever little bit we put in helps. This is a group photo which will bring back good memories for years to come. It reminds me of how crazy the brothers and sisters are during her big day and how much laughter they have just to have this picture taken.

It was only after the shoot that I manage to grab one from the last two leftover. And man…the only way to describe it is..one is never enough.

Anyone who wishes to place their order, just let me know and I’ll pass the contact to you ya.

Check out this article from TODAY online here: They’ve only just begun – to charge