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Last Sun­day, I attended the “Prewed­ding Por­trait Work­shop — Cap­tur­ing the Moment” organ­ised by Mul­ti­me­dia University’s Film and Pho­tog­ra­phy Soci­ety.

3 wed­ding pho­tog­ra­phers has been invited to con­duct the work­shop — Edwin Tan, Paul Kong and Joshua Teoh.

After each con­duc­tor given their talk, we were divided into 3 groups to pro­ceed to out­door shooting.

Each group has been assigned a real cou­ple as the mod­els. My group got Dave Goh and Zi Ying.

The mod­els — Dave Goh and Zi Ying.

First time attend­ing pho­tog­ra­phy work­shop and first time shoot­ing pre-wedding por­trait. And it turned out to be a very good oppor­tu­nity for me to learn.

The con­duc­tor for my group — Joshua Teoh — and I.

Many thanks to the con­duc­tor for my group Joshua Teoh who really shared a lot of his expe­ri­ences with us.

P/S: 12 more pho­tos on my Face­book album.

I’ve been hav­ing oat­meal for break­fast for the past week. I like the smell and taste of oat­meal cooked together with fresh milk.

How­ever, this post is not about how to make a bowl of mouth-watering oat­meal break­fast, in fact, it’s about shoot­ing oatmeal.

I’ve been fol­low­ing a food blog at www.latartinegourmande.com for some time now and I’ve always admire her pho­tog­ra­phy style (and of course her cook­ing skill as well).

The blown-out yet vibrant look of her pic­tures always caught my atten­tion. You can check out more of her works at cannelle-vanille’s pho­to­stream on Flickr.

I won­dered how she man­aged to achieve that unique look. Until one day, I saw this pic­ture from her Pho­to­stream on Flickr.

The rounded spoon sort of reflected the sur­round­ing of the entire setup. I can roughly guess that she used a light­source at the back (or maybe by the win­dow) with two reflec­tors at the front.

I came up with my own ver­sion and shot the oat­meal I’ve been eat­ing every morning.

Shoot­ing it was actu­ally eas­ier than I thought. The dif­fi­cult part? Styling the table, cook­ing the oat­meal, gar­nish­ing it with fruits and shoot­ing it in less than 20 min­utes so I can still eat it while it was still warm.

P/S: All pic­tures taken with Nikon D90, 50mm lens shot at ISO 200, f/3.5 and 1/50. Remote speed­light was set at 1/20.

One day, a friend of mine Kent called me after he saw my blog, ask­ing me to help him to shoot some inte­rior pic­tures of a few kitchens ren­o­vated by him.

With­out think­ing much, I quickly agreed because it was a good oppor­tu­nity for me to try out inte­rior photography.

The first kitchen we went is located in Ampang. It is a mod­ern kitchen designed with a lot of indi­rect blue lights hid­den behind or under the cabinets.

It belongs to a wealthy fam­ily whose owner is a Dato’. The size of the kitchen itself (dry + wet) is big­ger than my entire apartment.

It took me quite some time to find out the best way to light up a kitchen this big. At the end, what I did was shoot­ing with small aper­ture, slow shut­ter speed and then bounce the flash­light through an umbrella off the ceiling.

The fam­ily was so excited about the pho­to­shoot they even asked me to shoot some por­traits of their cute baby girl.

After that, we went to the sec­ond kitchen which is located in Rawang. I really love this kitchen with its orange tiles and white furnitures.

This time the shoot was faster and eas­ier since the trial-and-error from the first shoot.

The orange kitchen comes with a clas­sic din­ing hall on the other side.

If you think that light­ing the space is the hard­est part of inte­rior pho­tog­ra­phy, think again.

What’s more dif­fi­cult than light­ing is styling the space. The amount of atten­tion paid to dec­o­rate the sub­ject and the back­ground will just scares you off.

I must say that Con­nie and sis­ter (Kent’s friends) have done a really good job in mak­ing sure that every­thing that goes into the camera’s frame is perfect.

Next des­ti­na­tion, another kitchen in Kajang. This kitchen belongs to a chef who works at Marriott Putrajaya.

The owner was very excited as well and insisted me to take a few por­traits of him for his Face­book pro­file picture.

At the end, kitchen shoot­ing turned into Face­book pro­file pic­ture shoot­ing, and lastly turned into fam­ily por­trait shooting.

Well, it was really a long and tired day. But I really had fun shoot­ing the kitchens and the peo­ple behind them.

And most impor­tantly, I was really sat­is­fied with all the pic­tures I got at the end of the day.