portraits
The skies looked really blue today and the evening light never looked more beautiful today. Instead of staying in front of my computer, I decided to take a spin round the island. Watching the shadow of the car against the seemingly golden road. Haven’t seen such good light for a real long time. Stopped in the middle of nowhere and took a few shots before heading home. The light was beautiful, but was shortlived. Back home, I thought, hey Hutch, let’s work some artificial light.
Hah:) I didn’t plan for this. Just realized I posted 2 Four Seasons wedding in a row. A really simple and relaxed wedding. Before that, we did a Pre-Wedding shoot at National Museum and a few new locations in the west (I’m pretty much a north eastern person… I probably know Bali better than the western part of Singapore) which I’ve never shot before. The good thing was the latter part was all taken in casual wear. It’s always nice when couples change into their casual wear. Lesser attention always make things easier.
Here are some images from both shoots.
I can’t remember when was the last time I did a self portrait. After an awesome shoot with Fabian and Xinyi this afternoon, I came home… and Hutch greeted me happily like every other day. Before I popped into shower, I sat outside the toilet while he snuggled up. Looking at the lighting from the toilet, I thought the location was perfect for a little low light portrait. Set up my gears and after a couple of minutes, here we are:D
I was watching this video about men’s brain vs women’s brain and it talked about this “nothing box” in the men’s brain. It’s funny, but true.
Angel and her dad after putting on the veil for her. I can’t tell what’s on his mind. But from the way he held her hands, I believe it’s far from a “nothing box”.
I know this is a little overdue. Haven’t been the most diligent in posting wedding day images. I have decided to now post images instead of slideshow.
This is a wedding I took in May. It was a pretty simple and straight forward affair. Meet at church and tea ceremony after that. No sweaty gatecrashing games. The evening setup was nicely done up by the team at Heaven’s Gift at my favorite hotel, Four Seasons. Not only because they serve real kick ass club sandwiches (on par with Intercontinental), I know the wedding it probably going to hold about 200+ guests. A pretty comfortable size for a wedding reception I feel. The well thought out evening programme had everyone entertained. From the wedding singers, dance, games… right down to the personalized pastries.
Here are some images of the wedding.
It’s been two crazy weeks since I returned from Bali. Granted, I had a little fun in Batam, but it was still crazy. Now that the dust has sort of settled (into a huge pile of images), the image making machine begins to warm up.
Besides diving in Bali and trying out some underwater shots, we did a Pre-Wedding for James and Melissa as well. Shooting underwater requires so much logistics it’s not even funny to list them down. One of the major pre-requisites is the models themselves. It was physically taxing on both parties. But end of it all, it was fun and we found out tricks and all to make things easier. Can’t wait to try it again though:)
After my “epic” dive with the jacks at Tulamben, I met James and Melissa the day after and stayed at the beautiful Karma Kandara Resort with Melissa’s brother and CJ. The shoot was scheduled for the next day and we headed out to Uluwatu, then to Dreamland (where we were made to pay “fees” to access the beach) before moving out to Tanah Lot in the evening.
And… let’s just say that… I wanna go out now and I’ll leave the images to speak for themselves?
The last two days of my slightly longer than usual work trip. On day twelve, the boys stayed villa-ed, while the girls went diving at Nusa Penida again. I wished I could go, but I have to detox before the flight next day. And that proved to be a bad bad bad (not like I have a choice) decision. After they left, we went to Ubud to have lunch and did some hopeless shopping. I’m not sure about the others, but my head was still spinning like crazy from that horrible ride to Nusa Penida two days ago.
Right after lunch, we received an sms from the girls. They saw a huge school or mantas at Manta Point and are heading for Crystal bay to try their luck on the Molas. Sea condition was bad and they are just going to try anyway. An hour later, we got another message, they found the Molas. Not one, but TWO!!! And the best part, only 2 divers, 1 diveguide and 2 molas. It was unbelievable!! If I hadn’t seen the video after that, I would never have believed it.
This was their story. The details are pretty accurate since they repeated the story the whole night after they came back:P *lol* Right after they made their descent at Crystal Bay, the diveguide signaled them to move down the slope. According to them, they’ve never seen the diveguide so excited. They followed and spotted a baby mola, probably about 2 foot in diameter. The shy baby mola swam away as soon they approached. Wayan, the diveguide, took Michelle’s camera and started video-ing the other big mola. That one is probably 4-5foot in diameter. It was an amazing 4 minute documentary of the mola-mola! And at a depth of 50m!! Too bad I can’t link the video here since it’s not loaded on public site yet.
Though worn out from the extremely rough boat ride, the girls were smiling from ear to ear and watching the videos over and over again the entire night till they ran out of energy. I was in dreamland, wondering, why didn’t I extend another day. Damnit, now I have to wait another year to catch them again (if I’m luck enough). I was happy though, that they managed to catch it. At least it’s not a wasted trip.
On the last day, we woke up early and headed for the resort’s private beach. We did some shooting and headed up to the pool for a swim. Had a crazy time before it was time for me to pack up. Damn I wished I could’ve stayed another day. What a fantastic trip, fantastic company. Never a dull moment.
Here are some snippets from that morning’s shoot.
I told James to sit at the rock while the waves were crashing in. It looks pretty mild for awhile…
…then a HUGE one crashed right into him. I manage to avoid it somehow and… laughed my ass off:P That was so funny!!
The travel party at the infinity pool…
…going for the infinity…
…FACEPLANT!!
Happy people, all around. The photographer too, was happy behind the camera:D