Bad weather, but still can be done! (Randy & Huiming -Wedding @ Koh Samui)

Here's a overseas shoot I did earlier this year :-)

Stopped shooting weddings?

Not really lah...ha ha. since october last year, i decided to cover weddings for another studio. Reason being, the cash is faster and less after sales service and less album making for me. Seems to be a good idea for me, since I am not really a business oriented person.

I just realised today that I forgottened about this blog! I'm still pretty busy shooting weddings. But I can't post those I shoot for the bridal studio I'm working with because they owns the rights to the pics.

Not really a problem for me, I still have some of my own jobs this year. Will update with pics when I find time. Cheers!~

How much to charge...

Finally! Lunar 7th month is over, I can get back to action! Have not been doing much last month, I am dying to cover a wedding. Some may find it funny that I love my job so much, but I've never treat it as a job, its playtime for me..ha ha. I guess that how I survive so long even though I get pay less than flipping burgers in fastfood restaurant!

Just read a thread in a local forum about wedding photography business, I think some newbie is trying to find out how to charge customers. Alot of the forumers shared their success stories, very inspiring post, but they didn't talk about those that are still struggling like me. I don't charge $4-6000 like them, my basic package is only $1.5k :) but I think its ok, I am happy with the current service rates. Like an old saying, "some sees the glass half empty, while other sees it half full". My package rates is enough to feed me and not too much that it'll tear a big hole on my customers' pocket. :)

I am shooting a wedding this weekend! WoooHooo!

Here's the ROM of the couple I posted earlier, enjoy!

With more power, comes great responsibility...

I recently resigned my moderator position from a popular local photography forum. I decided to just be a member and use my membership there purely to promote my photography and be less involve in all the administrative stuff and all the "fights". Not that I've involved in any, but being a moderator, I feel I need to do something. You know "with more power, comes great responsibility". ;)

I also felt after becoming a moderator, forum members seems to distance themselves from me, they don't comment on my post like they use to in the wedding photography forum(I think). I hope, being just a member, can make me less intimidating, and more people will "dare" to comment on my post! lol

Oh! I also changed my nick in that forum to...you guess it, Trailsoflife! :)

Here's some pics from a shoot I did this month:

how to write blog...

I think I sucked at blogging, so I went to Xiaxue's blog to check out why her blog is so popular. I must say its actually very interesting! The way Xiaxue describe her boyfriend, her declaration of her 'lian-ness', plus, there's alot of babe's pics in the blog!

A lot of it is about Xiaxue's day-to-day life, her joy, happiness, mood swings and sometimes, her angst. I think what makes Xiaxue's blog interesting is the different emotions she had in almost every post, sometimes, she's like a sweet little cutie pie, sometimes she just explodes and roar like a tigress, its actually quite entertaining! Apart of the slight vulgarity, I kinda admire Xiaxue's guts for able to pump out whatever she felt. I think she's kinda cool.

I'll never be able to blog like Xiaxue, but this is a wedding photography blog anyway. Just hoping one day, maybe I can get to cover her wedding, that'll make me famous? ha ha!

Wish Xiaxue all the best lah, Blog Queen of Singapore!

Anyway, here's the 2nd part of the wedding photography selection I featured in "Spring cleaning...". Enjoy ;)

Spring cleaning...

Since its the Hungry Ghost Festival now, I decided to do some "spring cleaning" for my computers and my desk. I think I had enough rest already although, its only the second week of the month, ha ha, can't stay lazy for too long.

I found this couple's wedding photos hiding in one of my folder cleaning up my Mac. Almost fogotten about them because both went back to Australia after the wedding. Lost contact with them, they must be busy. I remember rushing their album out within a month, just to deliver to them one day before they leave!

Here's some of my favourite to share!

Lunar 7th month...

Its almost lunar seventh month soon, that means no wedding shoots when the hell gate opens! FYI, for those who don't know, lunar seventh month is also known as Hungry Ghost festival, this whole month is like a summer holiday for the spirits from hell, They will roam our world like tourist for a month! So normally, there's no wedding during this month. However, I still have to do some design and layout of album for 1 couple. Not a problem, at least I can rest abit.

Speaking of album, I finally completed my "longest-waiting-for-selection" couple's album! This couple hired me to cover their wedding last year November(I think), after the wedding, they requested for the raw images and left for japan to work, its was very rush! I think the groom need to start his work on the same week... 6 months later, they finally got back to me with their image selection... ha ha. I almost forgotten about them.

Anyway, managed to complete everything in time, when they come back last week for holiday.

Here's some of their wedding pics, and the presents they got me from Japan :)