Working with you sure makes a photographer forget about time, and the few hours spent on this shoot along with a few fellow photographers were full of laughter and excitement. I think your professionalism and versatility spurs us on to achieve the best.

When it comes to shooting indoor studio portraits, directing the model can often be a challenge to a photographer, unless you are working with a professional like Adeline. She is the first runner up in the Malaysian Dream Girl 2008 Season 1. All I needed was to make a few suggestions on the kind of look and feel we were trying to achieve, show her some samples shots from a magazine, and she immediately knew know how to transform and evolve throughout the shoot. And together, we were able to come up with some pretty unique and creative ideas.

I look forward to working together with you again for other projects in the future, and I think you can really go far as a professional model.

Lastly, but not least, some words of thanks to a few sponsors:

Model - Talent Factory

Bridalwear & Kebaya - Nicleesher

Make-Up - Siew Mun   siew_mun82@hotmail.com

Studio - Kwekus6

And finally, the man who hooked us up with Talent Factory - Oon Yeoh

Ok, now, let’s have a look at the photos.

More photos are available Here.

Photographing the Gill family was a wonderful experience. I had so much fun spending the morning with them.

Speaking of family portraits, most of the people who talk about it, eventually end up in some studio somewhere only to get some pre-set poses here and there, just to get it over and done with, without really knowing what exactly they want in their minds.

But in Ranee’s case, when she contacted me sometime ago, and said she wanted to have her family portrait done at her home, I knew immediately that she was one person who knew exactly what she wanted!

Getting a great portrait is not about posing in such a way as to show a person on their best behavior as if in front of the FRU police, but to show the true beauty of that person when he or she is relaxed and enjoys the environment around himself or herself.

See, if you have the right mindset, this is what you are going to get.

More photos Here.

Isn’t she sweet? She is Daneng, just 5-years old, the daughter of the owner of the villa where we stayed in Bali.

For me, her smile just brightened up my day. Being a creative photographer is not quite enough. To build rapport with the subject that I photograph seems more crucial than any other element in portrait photography.

When the person being photographed is relaxed and feels comfortable with the photographer, the true nature and best characteristics of the person can be captured accurately in the photograph.

Portrait Photography is all about looking at your own photograph and feeling good about yourself. Don’t you think so?

They say that you can tell whether a makeup artist (or MUA in short) is good by looking her own face! This is proven in my wife’s bridal makeup artist, Iris. She recently posed for a few shots, featuring her own face as her own canvas. Here, she sports a very natural yet sultry look.

The complete series is Here.

Makeup Artists or MUA for short, can cause a photographer’s greatest nightmare, or become his greatest ally.

It is a nightmare when an ignorant makeup artist applies shiny highlights and glitter on a bride’s eyelids for night time or low-light situations where a flash is required, thinking it will ‘emphasize’ the girl’s eyes. Unfortunately, it will, but not in the way that most ladies would wish. Once the light from the flash bounces off the bride’s face in the low-light situation, her shiny reflective makeup will give her face an oily or greasy look, and her eyes will look like she had a few bouts in a boxing ring prior to the shoot! Not exactly the aspirations of a bride-to-be.

On the contrary, a good and knowledgeable makeup artist can be a photographer’s greatest ally.

This is one of the reasons why I was extremely glad when my wife introduced me to Iris, the makeup artist who did her makeup for our wedding dinner.

Finally, a MUA who not only understands the type of makeup that suits a particular person’s looks and character, but is able to bring out the person’s best features, synchronize and synergize with her outfit, and also takes time to talk with the client to find out their tastes, their preferences or even fears (!) before she starts work. Best of all, she understands that different kind of lighting (whether indoor or outdoor, night or day) requires different types of makeup.

Since then, I’ve introduced her to many of my photography clients… the most recent one being Serene.

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