Laureen Quah - The Ratu Kebaya.

Laureen Quah has been doing well in her modeling path. She has won herself several award among them are Ratu Kebaya, Miss Teen Pegeant 2012, etc. I am lucky to be her photographer to snap some portrait of her. The shooting was postpone and postpone due to her busy schedule. And finally we manage to make it for the Youth Park snap.

Crazy ideas were added on this shooting, including using a shoe to create the masterpiece and my photo was uploaded in her facebook. Love shooting her as she has a ballet background where she can pose very well with her ballet styling. Have a great time outing with her.

Laureen was surprise that I was there alone only for the shot. Usually shooting comes together with a group of photographers or assistants. But I was just shooting alone and not using reflector at all. Hope you all like my work with natural lighting + some fill in off cam flash.

Meng Yee & Siew Nee Photo Album

I like something that is simple and nice. I don't really like bombastic of editing, I also don't really like bombastic of photo album design. Simply looks elegant with simple and nice concept just like Prince William and Princess Kate. Notice that Princess Kate does not wear necklace on her wedding and even her arrival in Malaysia.

Here is something simple from me.

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Extraordinary Wedding Portraiture Workshop in Penang by Michael Greenberg- 26 & 27 January 2013

Mark your calendar this 26 & 27 Jan 2013, as Michael Greenberg, one of the top wedding photographers in Canada is heading to Penang , to conduct “Extraordinary Wedding Portraiture “ workshop.
Michael Greenberg has over 10 years of wedding photography experience worldwide belting 12 WPPI awards and over 80 accolades of excellence in 5 years . His work has been published in numerous photography magazines including a recent book "The best of wedding photojournalism" by Bill Hurter. Michael is renowned for his Renaissance-era-inspired elaborate group portraits. One of them, “Family” won a Grand Award at WPPI 2010.
As a passionate educator, he has conducted workshops in USA , Canada , Hong Kong and Malaysia . Witness how he captures every photo with elegant play of fashion and photo journalism. Come join us and be inspired!
Workshop agenda:
• Anonymous portfolio review: Bring 3 images of your best work and Michael will intensely analyze, critique and review your photos.
• Posing and communicate with the models to capture the natural photos.
• Learn to be creative by using simple tools such as flash guns in any condition to create a dramatic studio quality photos.
• Photography studio workflow.
• High end retouching techniques.
• Panoramic group portraiture post processing method.
• Demonstrate, guidance will be given on the practical session. (include 1 bridal couple and 1 female model)
• Intro to video and multimedia and how it could benefit your business.
• Latest marketing trends in wedding industries.

What you need to bring:
• Camera
• Wide angle lens
• Zoom lens
• Flash gun
• Sync cord
• Wacom Tablet
• Laptop with photoshop
• Wireless TTL adapter

What’s included on your fees:
• Workshop for 2 days
• Light breakfast
• Buffet lunch
• Tea breaks
• 3 talented models hired for practical photo shooting session, they are:

Elise Choo
Islee fashion model 12th issue 2011
Winner of Chinatown Queen 2011
Best runway in Vogue for Virtue model search 2011 – pose & win
Best female in Vogue for Virtue model search 2011 – pose & win
Miss photogenic of miss sunway carnival model search 2010
1st runner up for sunway carnival model search 2012
2nd runner up for Miss Penang tourism 2011

Laureen Quah
Winner of Ratu kebaya – Gurney plaza ratu kebaya 2012
Winner of Miss Teen Pageant 2012 Megamall Penang
Winner Masquerade Queen 2010
1st Runner up - Miss Auto City 2011, GT Queen
1st runner up – Miss Chinatown 2010 (Penang State)
1st Runner up – Miss Malaysia Earth 2010 (Penang State)
1st Runner up- Miss Penang Times Square 2010
2nd Runner up – Miss D’Piazza 2009

Zazx Chin Yi
1st Runner up in Man-hunk completion 2012
1st Runner up in Mr Sunway Carnival 2011
Vogue for virtue 2010 top 9













BONUS!!!
• Whoever interested is welcomed to join Michael Greenberg photo outing at the Thaipusam procession after the 27 Jan 2013 workshop.
• Join the workshop and you will stand a chance to win a SB900 or 580 EX II flash gun if your image ranked the best photo in the photo critique session by Michael Greenberg
Term & Condition: The awarding of the prize will be done with a minimum of 26 confirmed workshop seats.
STRICTLY NO VIDEO ALLOWED!!

Venue: 1926 Heritage Hotel Penang
Date: 26 & 27 January 2013
Time: 8.00am to 6.00pm
Fees: RM 1200 (Early bird)/ RM 1300 (Normal rate)
Early bird registration (15-Oct 2012)
For registration, please bank in your fees to:
Tan Yet Choon (Tel: 012-4921093)
Public bank account number: 4-4128316-27
And email your bank slip to: yesidomoment@gmail.com
With your facebook nick name, your name as in IC and your IC number.

Red red Malacca.

After being inspired by my dearest photography laser pal, Ng Siew Kay, I am terribly in love with fashion photography. No more normal portrait session for me, but replace by all types of fashion photoshoot. Although I am just a new bite to fashion photography, I would love to try and keep trying my very best to produce a good fashion artwork.

Going all the way south heading my wife’s hometown, I got my deal to shoot Isz Tai at Casa de Rio hotel near to the Historical Town of Malacca. Isz is not a super model but she loves to be shot and talented to pose well. I do not have to pose her but simply a signal she is able to pose with her elegant and sometimes interesting funny poses. Although she is not as tall as the model seen in the magazine but she is able to carry out her style in the posing. Red shoe, red short and red neck lets give her a good match. Too bad, my time to capture them was too limited; I bet that I will be able to produce more nice art work if I have more time to capture another attire of her.













































This scene is nice. I was having this idea to request the model to climb and sit on top of the table to pose but I was very worry that the security will chase us off from the hotel. When we looked around, no one was there, she quickly climbed on the table and we have a few snaps. She posed very fast, managed to change pose on my every clicks. I was shock by her aggressive posing.

















Now I am on my way to KL to attend Emily Soto’s workshop…. Emily Soto, a very experience female photographer in fashion. She was using Canon 7D to shoot her awesome photos before she upgrades her gear to Canon 5D mark3. It is my first time to attend workshop, guess that I will be inspire by her. Soon I will be organizing a workshop in Penang and will be conducted by one of top class photographers in the world, Michael Greenberg.

Emily Soto is working on the controlled environment where they have a group of assistant to setup the tools and equipment to shoot. They plan and setup accordingly to create a wonderful artwork. While on the other hand, Michael Greenberg is specialize in wedding photography where he sometimes shooting alone on a wedding function. However, he is able to create good master piece with his on hand tools such as: A camera, a lens and a wireless flash gun. This is something I very wonder how he did his masterpiece. I would love to see him live, that is why I bring him over. Hope you guys will register yourself to join the workshop and be inspire by Michael Greenberg.