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To be honest, I’m not a good writer nor a good speakers. But I’ll love to share my thoughts and experience with anyone who cares about wedding photographs. Anyone including couples who are getting married or photographers who are serious about wedding photography.

Here’s a chance for me to do that at Vianei Wedding. My trusted wedding gown vendor who always show support with my work. I’m honored to present a talk at their shop. Here’s the detail with a brief agenda of the talk.

Wedding Photo talk @ Vianei Wedding Hong Kong 30th May 2:00 – 3:30 pm
maximum 10 couples, register at info[at]vianeiwedding.hk or call 2369 2069.

The talk will be in two parts.
Pre-Wedding:
- Choosing your style
- Choosing locations
- Posing

Wedding Day:
- Planning with the photographer
- Increase photo quality
- sharing my experience

After the talk, there will be Q&A and open discussion. If you feel your wedding photos are one of the most important element of your wedding. Then join a session for free to prepare and find out how to find the right wedding photographer.

It was a really humid day in Hong Kong. We know spring is here when it is 99% humidity and I don’t think 100% humidity makes any difference. It was hot, sticky and sweaty. To be honest I hate it so much because I’m a sweaty person and especially I need to go out for photo shoot. But hey I love what I do, and I don’t care what kind of weather it is. As long I have a camera on my hand, I will work hard to find good photos.

With this kind of weather, the photo session made Jess and Jake a bit exhausted. We had to walk around the Soho area in Central for some photo spots. The area is up and down hills, so as soon as we started walking up hills, we were sweating already. Nevertheless, we went to a few locations in Soho. Played with the swings, walk through some old streets and then took a rest at a famous food stall.

This e-session was planned by Jess as a surprise for Jake. Jake came from Perth to Hong Kong for holiday and Jess wanted to get Jake a birthday present. At the end Jess couldn’t keep the secret as Jake found out about me. It was a really a lovely idea and I hope they enjoyed the moment with the e-session.

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Perth still have plenty of sunshine and even burning hot if you stays too long without shades. But I love it so much, because the weather is perfect to go out for some photo shoot. This trip back to Perth gave me a chance to work with my friend Chris to bring this lovely couple out for a photo shoot. The couple got married on the day I arrived and Chris was on the job for their wedding photos. So this session was a post-wedding photos that Chris invited them and here we have the results!

Thanks so much for Mariko and Brad. Bless you all.

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It’s often that when I’m not shooting weddings, my camera will just sits on my couch sun bathing. I love photograph landscape, but only when the weather is nice which only happens 20 days a year. Obviously, my camera is not sun bathing most of the time. So in 2010, I told myself to bring my camera out more often to just do some street photo shoot. Which you might think it’s easy, but Hong Kong is difficult sometimes. People don’t like cameras pointing at them, unless you are a tourist and of course I don’t look like one. Anyway, I went out with my buddy for some street photos at Temple street. It is a well known night market tourist attraction. You can find cheap clothes, accessories, electronics, many fake items and also tarot. Have a look at this place!

Anything you can find for cheap

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So with the previous post on the Bridal Make-up photos. Here we have the opening of Joey’s Make-up studio. As most of you might know about the pricey rent in Hong Kong. Most of the photographers, make-up artist, wedding gown vendors can’t afford to hire big spaces. So what we have in Hong Kong are these small size office/studio to suit our needs. They are good enough for make-up trial or meeting with clients.  The importance is the location right at Tsim Sha Tsui, which is one of the well gathered area with many wedding gown vendors, make-up artists and photographers nearby. So it’s a very convenient location for couples to shop for their wedding.

With Joey’s setup, she puts a lot of DIY to decorate her studio. Check them out.

The Bling Bling card holder and photo album!

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Did a fun job for a Make-up artist Joey Lam. She did like 10 or 12 make-up and hair styling changes in 5 hours. The models were all nice and fun to work with. I setup a simple lighting with 3 strobes: One at top left, one at middle right and one point to the back to lit the background. Photos retouched by Danny Chan, who’s a famous designer in Hong Kong. All dresses are from Vianei Wedding. Joey just started her own make-up shop. More photos on that soon.

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In the week of 4-11 April. I’ll be traveling to Perth, Western Australia to work with Chris Kueh. He’s a talented wedding photographer and graphic designer who also loves taking photos under natural light. I’m looking forward to work with him and explore the beautiful city to find amazing locations for engagement, family portrait and children.

For more information, please visit here http://www.wix.com/ChrisKueh/garyw_chrisk. Hurry and book a session with us to have some fun and get to keep your precious pictures!

A few days after I posted Honmi’s wedding. I received a message from my twitter. It was the owner of Ruffled Blog asking for my permission to reference my photos of Honmi’s wedding. I was so exciting how people all over the world could see my works. Really honored and I will continue with what I love to do.

It was 2 years ago that I last visited Perth. Every time I go back, there are a few things that I must do. First, go to the beach for a swim and get some sun tan. Second, go to vineyards for wine tasting. Last but not least, eat nice food with buddies. I didn’t take many photos for this trip as most of the time was just relaxing and so, not bother to bring anything out.
Photos were taken while sitting down for yummy food. That’s the time I spent most with my camera.

Went to Houghton, one of the finest vineyard in Perth. Very relaxing atmosphere with fine food.

This is Deli Chicchi café. One of a kind that sells books, provisions and gifts. Of course they serve yummy and fresh food.