Thanks all for your support, our small little Le Petit Studio has turned 1 year old last month. Here is a small little collage from the beginning until to date for your pleasure... We had many ideas before creating Le Petit Studio, initially we wanted to have a rusty dark setting but personally we wanted white, a place as comfy as possible because photography is a stressful job. We made it comfy so our pictures can turn out happy, and also to maintain our happy go lucky personality. There are many good possibilities here, we just love our rainbow colors around. A sweet place for many happy creations.... have you imagine working while listening to music, and take a nap whenever required, make a fresh cup of coffee when we need it, and play some musics when we feel bored, or have a movie night, yes we made this place for that, work hard and enjoy hard.
Met up Ajie and Pei San over FaceTime and I remember we spoke a lot about the wedding and pre-wedding but they end up signing our wedding day package. Ajie is a cool guy from Indonesia but both of them are working in Singapore now, Ajie has a high sense of taste not only on how he dress but also on coffee, he owns a restaurant in Singapore and he is also a barista hehe, thanks to my elephant like memory I am glad I am still able to remember all these tiny bits of things that the couple told me. It was a busy day with morning gate crash, church ceremony and dinner at Suburbia restaurant in Sentosa Singapore, this is such a cool place where only this place has to offer, they had a tea ceremony in open air garden and many awesome intimate sharing session throughout the dinner, and also found out that Ajie has another talent, he has a voice that able to melt Pei San's heart. Friendly couple and one bridesmaids was also a friend of one of a nice bride that I have shot in Singapore earlier. However, with all the hard work there was this incident that I can never forget which is a comment from one of the groomsman, he came to approach us before the dinner ceremony commented that we were not snapping enough, I got a little turned down at first because we really work our best, well I guess maybe because of the Singaporean habit of being dictative, sometimes we can never avoid it, I should have told him to try enjoy the wedding as much, just leave the good works from us and trust the photographer, our shooting styles are hand picked by the couple instead from the groomsman. It took me a few to overcome that feeling and after some refreshments we became the ninja's again, and my fellow assistant shooter was so nice to capture that tired look of mine at the end of the wedding dinner LOL. Thats one of the life of being a photographer after 16 hours of work.
Its an awesome morning where Choon Wae and Irina is had their red hot Chinese traditional tea ceremony dressing in red all the way. Irina is originated from Indonesia so she had not many relatives here for the tea ceremony but she did look very happy that day, both of them are very lovely and Choon Wae's side was very happening and emotional where his mom cried during the tea ceremony. Love the casual and simple style during the day, nothing very hectic where everyone are able to enjoy the cozy afternoon and lots of smiles and tears, after this special day both Choon Wae and Irina will be flying back to Melbourne, I can felt that his mom will miss him a lot.
Finally our last assignment in Bali, been spending more than a week in Bali, the last assignment is always the most exciting and tiring, everyday we have to wake up around 3am for the make up and finishes at sunset due to the long travelling distance, we finishes off our session with Nathan and Betty in a new found land hehe, this place is simply awesome. When I first met up with Nathan and Betty, Nathan was the one who always does the talking and Betty was the one who only tells Nathan what she wanted and let Nathan does all the talking. I always admire the result of the chemistry of both person, making every couple a different one. Both of them live in Miri and had also engage us to cover their wedding in Miri. Thanks for giving me all the trust for this session, both of them just thrilled with the scenes have to offer here. I remember our session in Potatoe head where we not allowed to take any pictures in this premises, I shot most of the casual session with my GX1 micro four third camera and they were no problem with it, eventually it did turned our pretty well for the album, thanks to photoshop. I did went to the same place for the sunset session after a few months but this place has been closed for renovation now. Love it so much.
Both Chin Wuu and Rachel are working in Singapore and Rachel originated from China. I can see that Chin Wuu love Rachel very much though she is one of the demanding bride hehe. The different things I did on this session, unlike usually I would engage a beloved session for the couple but I believe Rachel had a different expectations on the pictures which is something similar to my early styles with elegant poses, something expresses the inner soul of Rachel, making her like an angel of Chin Wuu so that Chin Wuu would give everything to her, thats the theme is all about. Rachel might look fierce and demanding from the outside but inside of her is very emotional with many sentimental feelings, maybe because the story she written to us was in mandarin so everything is filled with emotions, in mandarin we call it "small little lady".
Tired of all the serious pictures? Here are a batch of unusual ones we did with Kevin & Samantha. Everyone is unique, when Kevin asked if he can do a shot to show him jumping off the cliff, I laughed but we forgo the idea in the end. So much for funny ideas. So I took them to an unusual place in Bali market for some shots with all the local people, to metaphore Kevin doing his house chores where Samantha is in control of everything, not every couple willing to have fun in a session like that, it takes courage because in the end it is the pictures that will go into the album, love all the funny ones we did here so I show some that relates to it, in the end with Kevin smoking beside Samantha and having a good time. Well in the end they did not select the smoking ones into the album hehe, yea it is fine for their own collection.
Here we go, our first couple on this trip to Bali, Indonesia, we met up in our studio for a short discussion and decided to head to this few places that I'm familiar with, of course Choong Yi also have asked what will be the place I most wanted to shoot and I answer Lovina Bay which is far up north with all the penguins and looking at the destination they gave up haha, yea I am still looking forward to go there some day but we ended up in places like the water blow and kintamani volcano, this time the water blow isn't blowing so we took some landscape shots with the lava rocks, did a little of beloved session with them. I still remember there was one nice shot we took in Kintamani with a fly on the veil which we strive to remove it lol, photoshop does the trick. Both of them are really tall, they are one of the tallest couple I have shot so far hehe, with all the natural candids, I remember Choong Yi was concern about his slight baldness which I let photoshop does the trick, boom and its gone lol. Talking about baldness, Bali is one of the hottest place and one of the toughest place for me, simply because I have to start avoiding the sun to stop my hair from falling lol, and every angle gotta be standing in some dangerous spot, therefore overtime I am here I am injured in some ways, not sure where I am going to be injured this time. hmmm..... for this day, I am fine.
Thanks to Kris from That Special Occasion and the team, we were invited to join this wedding fair. When we hear about the place Sandakan, it does raise a lot of questions, the first question would be, why Sandakan, LOL. Flew all the way to Sandakan just to open a few hours of wedding fair is indeed something we had never done before. But the main reason we join is because we love this place. The people are just great. From a couple of previous weddings we had assigned in Sandakan before, we had lots of good memories here. One of the thing we love is the very old St. Micheal Church in Sandakan, the church was simply amazing. And another thing we love is the English Tea House and Restaurant up on the hill of Sandakan city, a beautiful british colonial architecture which is very good for a wedding reception. So in turn, Sandakan is filled with potential for many nice memories and awesome pictures. Lets pray for more to come in Sandakan! ^_^
Ah another session in PJ trade centre, this time we did a maternity with Michael and Cheryl, I guess I've expose myself too much here until we were chased by the guards. It was a fun session, though the guard kept looking at us until we have to move to the back yard of PJ trade hehe. Thanks to Michael and Cheryl!
Joanne wanted a family portrait with some lifestyle approach so we also did the session in PJ Trade Centre, they did their wedding shot with Sunny Sun in Penang, she's one of the beautiful mom in the lift, Anna was a little quiet but we kept trying to play with them and had some beloved session throughout the shoot, loving the bricks around here, they brought a bubble machine so we keep Anna busy for a while hehe. Well I wish I could try up some styling and deco set ups for the next round of family portrait, or some activities for the family, something like a family moment, will see which family is willing to do that, not everyone prefer as different family have their own preferences. :)