Catchchee

Seminar

CC — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 07:14:51 +0000

Specialty cake from PinkZeebra

CC — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 18:42:49 +0000

I did this shoot recently and Z created this cake for her dad’s birthday. I know it took her quite some time to get it done but it was a labour of love. She loves what she does and it shows in her creations. You can check out her menu by clicking here.

Chinese Wedding 5th June 10

CC — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 06:25:47 +0000

Congrats to my ex-schoolmate Mei Chun and ex-colleague Yun Onn on their joyous wedding. Sure was a pleasure covering the wedding also I got to see some of our mutual friends whom I have not seen in quite awhile.
早生贵子 (wishing you having a lovely baby soon) & 白头偕老 (Wishing you a good match of a hundred years). A little teaser of what you’ll received in your package . I’ll see ya both pretty soon.

Custom album

CC — Sat, 29 May 2010 18:44:10 +0000

Finally received this album sometime mid last week, with the volcano in Iceland acting up the delivery was delayed. I was getting worried when it didn’t arrive as scheduled especially when this was my most expensive album. Since this was handmade, the production itself took a month and won’t be fun waiting for a replacement.

This is from the flush mount series and my client chose a high quality hand woven decorative silk brocade from a wide selection of leather/silk/faux leather/suede available. I’m not into the typical wedding album i.e. the boring black leather kind …or grey….or red; it’s just not me and not what I want to offer. You can understand if I had been on my feet covering a wedding for more than 20 hours and a week plus editing and designing that I refuse having my work presented on a newspaper thin album. I want something that’ll last years and years; after the wedding events, the food, the celebration, the album is the only thing that enables you to look back on your special day years from now. The album below was made with genuine photographic prints and most importantly coated! That makes it easy to care for. For the page style, I chose round corners for my client as they’re less likely to be damaged compared to square corners. For this album, since I have pictures that are ultrawide/with landscape, I selected the full spreads style i.e. it has the seamless look with no gap in the middle of the album; a more modern and trendy looking album .

What else can I say bout the album: it’s modern looking, heavy but plush and thick. Trendy looking and the colours plus black and white pictures are just gorgeous. Since this was my first album from a different series, I had a custom handmade album cover made just for my client as a gift (the one in gold ribbon). Perfect combination! Prices for wedding album starts from $700 – $3500 ++ depending on the size and options you choose.

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Launching of Pink Desserts Recipe Book

CC — Sat, 29 May 2010 15:15:34 +0000

Will take place at Casa Esperanza tomorrow 30th May 2010 from 1 to 6. You can find some more details regarding the event here. There will be a mini bazaar where you can get hold of food/goodies etc, do come and support for a good cause. Part of the sales will be donated to Brunei Breast Cancer Support Group. You can also get hold of the Pink Desserts Recipe book for just $10! Yes 50 plus recipes for just tenner, that’s reasonably priced for shooor. I contributed some pictures for this booklet and when I received my copy last Wednesday as I was invited for a dinner at Esperanza,was honoured to have one of my pics used on the cover! Here’s hoping my work to be on more book/magazine covers ;P

Working on Lighting

CC — Tue, 25 May 2010 07:18:34 +0000

One of the main challenges in what we do is seeing the light and what to do when it’s not flattering. This portrait was done in a quite dark environment, if my first instinct was to use the on camera flash, this picture would not have come to light. Processed with my signature black & white action with very slight toning. For the still photo, I was practicing what could be done with just 1 light.

@ ICC

CC — Fri, 21 May 2010 19:09:11 +0000

Covered this event recently and always a pleasure, who doesn’t love music? Working and being entertained at the same time, a delightful combination, truly

May 2010

CC — Thu, 13 May 2010 18:56:47 +0000

The postal service has been pretty wonky since the ‘volcano that must not be pronounced’ in Iceland first erupted. Even shipping within Asia was not spared, my package from South Korea by speed post took more than twice as long and just received them yesterday. Pretty annoying! Now anxiously waiting for an expensive custom handmade Album that’s way way delayed, day 21 of waiting, no thanks to the ash cloud! I would need to adjust this so clients know the waiting period for their album, although it’s not uncommon 3 months being the delivery time in our industry.

This was one of the albums I delivered to my client for a Mandi Berlawat function. It’s not the same as the one that’s currently coming my way. I’ll reserve this album specifically for Non-Wedding events. I hope this specific friend of mine won’t be reading this or else I’ll get called being an elitist again lol, can you blame me? I want A Wedding Album to be thick, heavy, plush and most importantly (for me anyway) customisable i.e. not just generic black leather/linen type album; I want my clients to have that option. I’ll take some pictures of the album I’m referring to once I get my hands on it, please let it be soon!!!

There were couple of things that I considered when album shopping…for this Non-Wedding Event album. I need the album to be competitively priced so it won’t be too pricey for the final product. A client asked me how much the album cost, I mentioned to him the number and he jokingly said Oh so that’s how much they were paying me for the album then? LOL of course I cheekily replied Well that price + 10% for my time/service on top of that is only for a ‘blank’ album; my time editing the pictures and designing the album weren’t included yet hehe. The album is not merely papers but precious memories.

You can see from the pics below some of the criteria I seek for. Clean and tight stitching, this is important for me. Do you remember having school magazines with weak stitching and everything falls apart the first few times you read it. Stitching looks good to me. Flipping to middle of the album and the album doesn’t flop and break the stitching. The edges are well glued, no bubbles or excess glues creeping out, I guess spray adhesive was used, good!

Next is the quality of the paper used, bright white, good ‘weight’ and does not leave fingerprints! Yes I have encountered album that was prone to leave fingerprints. The colours are vibrant and Black & White contrasty and true to what I edited on my calibrated monitor An unreliable ‘printer’ is a real nightmare to photographers; our end product is at their mercy i.e. an improper calibrated printer may reproduce pictures too warm/yellow etc irregardless of the hours spend on editing the series of images.

JIS Music Showcase Part II

CC — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 13:34:48 +0000

Some of shots that I loike from the concert, time to archive all of them and prepare for my next shoot

Kiulap RB @ nite

Chee — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 18:11:06 +0000

Taken from Rizqun Hotel. I wish there weren’t that many trees in the view of the roundabout; I did have another with a clearer view of the roundabout & Jame’Asr Hassanil Bolkiah mosque in the background.