Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Talent!



on another note, i spent almost 2 hours doing this?



is that talent too?

i'm not sure man... but.. it was, again, therapeutic...

Monday, January 29, 2007

Having fun with photoshop...

I dunno... it can be quite therapeutic.. if that's even the right spelling.

click for larger version:



do NOT ask me how i did it.. i forgot. truly. i mean, u can't ask a painter to paint the exact same picture twice.... something like that lar...

been busy shooting alot of... stuff. will post more soon.

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

I have direction; I lack magnitude....

MAGNIFY ME!!!

ok.. salah.. should be: give me strength!

anywayz, the title was in regard to my photography career.

you know i remember my applied maths classes in high school (they named the subject MATHEMATICS II, I was for pure maths) talking about vectors. they have direction, and magnitude. without both, they are lost. having direction but not moving, u well.. go no where. having alot of speed, but no direction to go, u're just perpetually lost...

i guess u'd be wondering why i lack magnitude. and i'll be telling u that i dun wanna write long essay.

oh well.. work load's a little less but there are still outstanding work to be done. february seems to be busy again, so i better get a move along! website is getting done, hope to be up by end of the month....

mindless post..

Saturday, January 20, 2007

The Spell...

Yeah.. she should know wat i mean... =)





Thursday, January 18, 2007

More of Jean...

was a record portrait shoot... 12 hours incl breaks, 1000+ frames...

anyway here's a couple more, the rest are in the usual gallery, updating as i get them processed..





link is here.

Alley Dance

I am beat... had a long day shooting Jean...

Just a couple for now, more to come:



clickable.




not clickable.

Sunday, January 14, 2007

Dragonfly Ryan

title's a bit wierd, basically we went to dragonfly to celebrate ryan's bday, so happy birthday dude!!!

first time there... didn't think it was anything that special, but no complaints lar, lots of eye candy, esp when it's dark. had some drinks, dance a bit, but was kinda packed where we were seated so couldn't move much....

anyway.. this blog was never really meant to be journal of my activities so i'll leave it as that.

while thinking of something interesting to post.. well here's my new name card, sent for print and on the way:



short post tonite.. not feeling the best.. but well nothing that i really wanna talk about. honestly. even if the person that i was closest to was right here with me there would be nothing to say. then again, if such a person existed, maybe i wouldn't be feeling "not the best". ehhe chicken and egg?

wat u think of the namecard? =)

Friday, January 12, 2007

I have a Godsis...

yeah.. and i call her hairy muffin. ok long story there, or rather not long, but just keeping it private ahhahaha...

Anyway, this muffin calls up out of the blue and says she's my godsis, and well yes my mother did mention her to me before, i THINK i vaguely rememebered mama saying something about a god daughter staying at their place yadda yadda, but ok... so i have one, since she's my mother's god daughter, makes her my god sister? WHATEVER! (she likes that word ALOT)

not quite sure what to make of it, but we seem to get along (phone, msn, sms). it's amazing tho, you don't wanna know how old (actually, young) she is...

yeap.. i haven't met her, she's back in sg for a while, then back to au again for her studies. will meet her soon.

Just watched Moulin Rouge on dvd, got it for $14 i think, at gramophone. for some reason, i totally couldn't remember the ending, but i'm SURE i watched it before. maybe i feel asleep the first time, can't be leh... but anyhow it was way enjoyable. i've always loved song and dance, and haha.. everytime i talk about a song and dance movie, i ALWAYS remember "Centre Stage". dunno why leh...

I can foresee my dvd collection to get bigger now that i have the home entertainment system, it's just so much better to watch a big screen with 5.1 surround. and it's not as expensive as it seems or used to be. i bought the tv and it came with the player and 5.1 speaker system FREE - wat more can i ask for? yeah it's not a great system, but it's good enuff for dvds in a bedroom. or at least until i want to spend more money which is er... highly likely but neh, not on this, i'm done with this "project". hehehe...

i need to find myself again this year. muffin (the godsis) asked me why i was "losin e fizzle for it" to quote her, regarding wedding photography. i'm not sure why she got that idea, i guess i was complaining to her about having too many photos to edit earlier. my reply was: "it's hard to record love when you are not in it. lucky tho, what i know of it, i still remember."

it just came out.

so i ask u, do u need to be in love, to be part of it? to record it? to record the celebration and declaration of it?

then after that i watched moulin rouge, and it's a story about love, and i'm like WAH LAUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU ok next.

wat a crappy post.

godsis' name is Sharon. =)

oh... i showed her my work and her next response (over msn) after a few moments was "holy crap". i'm not sure if that's a good thing.....

ADRIAN BRUDDER HOW ARE U??????????? shit man i haven't been talking to the fella for the longest time. we have to catch up bro, i been talking to moo quite a bit, dammit such friendships last forever man. adrian, did u know that moo and i haven't met since Z's wedding.. that's like.. More than a year liow! well.. the relationship never weakened. wonderful stuff! bros for life!

Friday, January 05, 2007

First post for the new year...

Usually people write about what they achieved or regret the past year, and what they hope to achieve and NOT regret for the coming... but not me not today.

It's kinda silly, but i just watch a movie on dvd and it's gotten me feeling kinda finny, strange. Love story of course, admittedly, such movies are my favourites. i enjoy watching romance and drama much more than war and action. I prefer to see on screen something that is real, or could be real, ideal even. Altho, the dvd i just watched is pretty far fetched and certainly less than ideal! that's right, love contradicts, so i do it too!!

Anyway if you're asking WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF is the damn movie, okokok i'll tell u! ahha... It's called "Wicker Park". I've never even heard of the movie, was at Carrefour the other day and they had two dvds for $30 so i grabbed 2, saw josh harnett on the front cover and i thot that would be good enuff for me to watch. yeah i like him, lovely charm.

I could do a synopsis of the movie but i think i won't. all i know is that... when you're in love, nothing seems wrong. that's how powerful it is, it defies your conscience. it's not healthy, but it happens. or maybe only in movies.

Anyway, i have managed to revamp my room to look REALLY decent, i just have to tape down a couple of wires, and unpack miscellaneous stuff that's still in the balcony to the shelves and i can take a picture and post it here. for the first time in my life i have bothered to do some "interior decoration" and even bought furniture to suit the room, lay it out to use the best of the space but yet look organised and pleasant. who needs a wife eh? u'd think i'd be the last person to say shit like that, but well, indulge me lar, new year leh!~!!

will post that photo soon.

if anyone's interested, here's some updates regarding the business side of things.

1. shih han had better be working frantically on my new website. he's nice, but i really dunno how his progress is. "nice" doesn't mean good work in a timely manner. but well we'll wait and see and if i know myself enuff, it won't go public until it is close to perfect.

2. tonnes of weddings from 2006 to clear, but beginning of 2007 is quieter for me which i am SO GLAD. I think i would actually be able to clear my work and NOT have any work to do come mid this month. I can actually say : I do NOT have anymore photos to edit, so i can DO NOTHING for a few days. let's hope i'm on to it and the sooner i finish the sooner i can have a break. not to mention collect money but somehow when i think of the back log i really dun think about the money i'm not collecting. and it "helps" when i get smses once in a while for couples asking for photos. i dun blame them, i would do the same, absolutely.

3. did my first "proper" shoot in the studio for a bridal magazine consisting of 10 models with 2 changes each. u know, another reason why it will be a very slow journey for me to get into fashion: there was absolutely no connection with the models, i only met them today, shot them (actually waited ages for them to get ready), and they left, and i can hardly remember their names. for the last group, i was calling them by the position they were standing (left, centre, middle) as there were group shots. i swear, it was so BUSINESS. i wasn't feeling, i was delivering. the photos turned out alrite, but the process wasn't invigorating to say the least. and i really had to rush. wasn't the client's fault that i had to rush, just some other silly thing which i dun think i wanna talk about, if anyone's really interested u can ask me. so anyway i figured: u can't shoot without a heart and enjoy it. u can however, do relatively well just using your brain. quotable quotes?

Think that's about it for now, time for some photos, here's a few that "made it to the portfolio" recently:





above images of jeff and cheryl, spent many years in australia with jeff as classmates, great to see him again, he's working in sydney now. GO!



finally got a shot of shoes that i am extremely pleased with, altho a little posed. no, the shoes didn't really get up there by itself! taken at Jostein and Annie's wedding, intersting couple, Norwegian guy with Malaysian Chinese girl getting married in singapore but live in Norway. Don't ask.... will post more of them after i process.



this is called FACE OFF! ahhaha.. 3v1 no match. the price of the three cars added together comes to about HALF the value of the single car, how apt that to find a partner in marriage is that priceless and then somemore?! ahhaha.. well that's an M5 there for those of you who can't tell. Well you can't really from this angle, but trust me it is...



here's one of felicia at her wedding day (image of her dancing with yingyao at their ROM in previous post). CONGRATULATIONS!!! she's already expecting!! unexpected for them but still great news! Found out when i visited them to deliver their album. So this tells me a couple of things, they either work fast, or i deliver slow! ok maybe a bit of both. Extremely happening couple, wishing them a happy healthy and chubby baby!

alrite, u know where to go for larger and more images.