After submitting our portfolio to a panel, we are very pleased to be accepted by the International Society of Professional Wedding Photographers (ISPWP)!
Author: Stephen
Thank you for attending my session!
Like to say a big Thank You to those who showed up for yesterday’s sharing session at Fort Canning (despite the heavy downpour!). Hope you find the session beneficial, hope to see more of you venturing into digital medium format soon.
Like to acknowledge a few guys here:
1. Matthew Tan, president of WPAS for giving me the opportunity to speak at the event. It was a really warm reception (both literally and figuratively!)
2. Cathay Photo for their
The slides can be downloaded here in pdf format.
Cheers! -Stephen
Featured at Focus on Imaging 2011
I’m very honoured to have one of my images selected by the Master Photographer Association (UK) to be featured at Focus on Imaging 2011, which is arguably the biggest photographic convention for professionals only. The image, which received an accolade from UK last year, was printed to a whopping size of 2m x 1m, wish I was there to see the actual print! 🙂
Photo’s from a series of my couple Kelly & Joe, and I really like the details on Kelly’s Cheong Sum, which by the way is a creation by Vaughn Tan.
Ken & Lee Yen | Overseas bridal photography in London
Getting out of my comfort zone is really something that I’ve been working on since 2010. Ask any photographers out there and they’ll tell you all the places that they like to do a shoot in.
If you ask me, London just happens to be one of those places that I had to step out of my comfort zone, and there’s a tendency to go back to the previous (and often touristy) sites. When Ken and Lee Yen approached me to do a series in London, I actually sat down for a while to think about what more could I do in the location, trust me there are many photoshoots that are conducted there by other photographers from Singapore.
While the other part of me was drawn to this mystical charm of the busy city and for some strange reasons, someone showed me an image of Cannery Wharf underground station that really intrigued me.
I was attending the Master Photographers Association (UK) awards ceremony in Birmingham in Oct 2010, and just 10 days before I set off to UK, the job was confirmed. I knew I had to do something more to make this worth my while, and now looking at the series that just made it as one of my featured portfolios, the rain and 6-degree cold that we endured in the morning of the photo shoot finally paid off!
Oh by the way, the lovely Cheong Sum is designed by renown gown designer, Tan Yoong. Go check out this guy, he’s really one of the premier designers in Singapore.
Weilun & Qiao Ling | Overseas bridal photography in Melbourne
1 month ago…
March 2011 had been a really busy month for us here in Lyrical Moments and above all the photo shoots, we had two overseas jobs at the beginning and end of the month.
ok, back to the present
I spent quite a bit of time reviewing and evaluating the photos that we have taken over the past month, not just because of the deadlines I had to meet to deliver the albums; I was looking around for the cornerstone images for Lyrical Moments and I don’t think I had to look very hard, which is a great thing! I was also preparing for the workshop-cum-demo this coming Tuesday and trying to find which are the images that are worth mentioning.
This is one series that I’ve shot in Melbourne that I will highlight some examples. I have photographed so many jobs in Melbourne, but this is one that we totally avoided the ‘common’ and ‘popular’ spots – especially those in the city (think Federation Square, Brighton Beach, Flinders Street station, the trams, etc). My couple was exceptionally conscientious when it came to location selection and we had the advantage of one of their friends who happens to be living in Melbourne to drive us around.
At the end of the day, we had really good fun creating the series!
Marina Bay Sands photoshoot – Sneak peek at our gear
Joseph, one of my assistants, took a candid photo while I was doing a photoshoot in Marina Bay Sands shopping area. For folks not in Singapore, Marina Bay Sands is one of the two newly opened casinoes in Singapore, and I had the opportunity to do a photoshoot in an area where professional & commercial photography is strictly not allowed, which is why we do not see many wedding series shot there 😉
And no, I don’t always wear red for photoshoot…
Ok, a sneak peek of what equipment I used for the photoshoot –
- Main arsenal, the Hasselblad H4D-40 (unfortunately not the Ferrari edition) , mounted on a tripod. This is what I used for all my bridal and portrait photoshoots, 40 Megapixels of goodness.
- the 35-90mm HC lens that is mounted on the H4D-40 60% of the time
- The good old Pocket Wizard plus II which I hold in my hand. This is used as a remote trigger for my camera.
- Pocket wizards Flex TT5, mounted on the camera to receive and send radio signal. I bought the new Flex TT5 because it allows me to receive a signal from my Plus II on channel 2, send out a signal on channel 3 to trigger my flash/strobes. Sorry if this sounds complicated to you 😀
- A 17″ Macbook Pro, connected to the Hasselblad H4D-40 digital back via a Firewire 800 connection. I shoot tethered most of the time, it’s almost mandatory now for several reasons a) I can see the entire preview on my 17″ screen vs 3.5″ on the digital back b) the laptop powers the back and Hasselblad H4D-40 batteries are hopeless (Hasseblad are you listening?) and tethered vs non-tethered is 1 battery vs 3.5 batteries.
And this is the photo that I was creating…
More to come later, stay tuned! 🙂
Talk cum demo at Fort-Canning
Quick announcement, I will be giving a talk /demo for the WPAS event this coming Tuesday, 26 April 2011. I will be touching on on-location lighting and how a little peek on the making of some of the award-winning images that I have shot using strobes and speedlites.
For more information how to register for the event, please goto http://weddingphotographers.com.sg/a-night-at-fort-canning-on-26th-april/
See ya there! 🙂
Yuh Huey & Trevor – “Courtship”
Here’s a favourite series that I shot recently. Everyone worked hard for the images – 2 assistants, a pair of sporting couple, 1 photographer and a huge swarm of blood thirsty mozzies. Yes, the photo entitled “The Missing Link” has received raving reviews on my Facebook page, check it out here
I’ll leave it to you to guess their professions, the “Courtship” photo says it all 🙂
The beautiful gowns are the creation of The Wedding Present bridal boutique.
New Lyrical Moments blog and website!
This has been a very exciting week for Lyrical Moments! Over the course of 7 days, some of the best things that have happened to us:
- We have launched a spanking new website and blog! Check it out here . I almost fell of my chair when I saw the site clocking over 23,000 and taking up 3.5gigabytes of traffic within 24 hours after it’s went
liveviral! - We have an undergrad from the Singapore Management University (SMU) who will be joining us for 3 months for his internship. We had a meet just yesterday and I’m really excited to have him on board, more info to come later.
- Lastly, we have a new associate that is joining Lyrical Moments, he’s a talent chap who is very passionate about photography. We shall introduce this Man of Mystery later
That’s all for now folks, and hope everyone have a restful long weekend…and yes, Happy Easter in advance!
We’ve moved!
Hey guys, we have moved our blog to a new location!
We are currently hosting our wedding photography blog and website on Singapore server or http://www.lyricalmoments.com/blog
Our website has also changed from to www.lyricalmoments.com , we have upgraded the server to a blazing fast one in Singapore to host the wedding photos, so do check them out! 🙂