Infra Red Photography-Part 3

Some photographers have ask me about this - "how you created this images?". Well, it's pretty simple, you just need to give up 1 digital camera & convert it into infra red camera :p
Of cause you can try with infra red film, but it's very hard to get now & you can't check the exposure & results immediately.
Some photographers try to use 'photoshop plug-in', that can be done too but I don't like to do that cause it's just like using a f4 lens & try to create a f1.4 effect, it's too artificial, professional photographers shouldn't rely on photoshop plug-in.
I do notice a few points when I'm shooting with infra red camera-
1. Better shoot with smaller apreture (prefer f11 or f16), to avoid soft edge.
2. Try not to shoot close-up on portraits, especially eyes looking at camera, you can see the eye balls look dark grey.
3. Results will be better if you shoot outdoor under a direct sunlight, but sometimes you need to under expose by at least 1 f.stop, to get the best details.
4. For outdoor sunny day shots, you will notice that the leafs-become white instead of dark grey tone & sky-clouds look better from normal camera.
5. You need to set at 'higher contrast' in your camera setting, cause the default setting is too soft.
Here are some samples from Vanessa & Irwin wedding portraiture.

Winning Projects for MSID 2008.

I've been specialize in interior photography for more than 10 years cause I always love to look at designer's masterpiece. Photographing interior is a lot different with weddings, composition, shapes/forms & lighting control is very important. I use to shoot for interior designers who needs to summit their projects for competition, judges will score by looking at the photos, so they need pro to handle this & that's my responsible.
For 2008, I have 2 series of photos that won 2nd place & 3rd place in 2008 MSID (Malaysian Society of Interior Design) Awards & I would like to share with you the winning projects by these 2 best interior designers.

2nd place, Hap Seng Consolidated by SI Design (http://www.sidesign.com.my/)

3rd place, OMYA by Veritas Design Group (http://www.veritas.com.my/)

Interesting shots from Patricia & Calvin's wedding portraiture

Gong Xi Fa Chai!
After a long holiday, it's time to update my blog.
This is one of the challenging series, Patricia & Calvin's wedding portraiture at Kellie's Castle & Ipoh.
Some of the shots, we applied infra red & light painting effects (I've been using these technique since 15 years ago in my commercial shoots), some of you might not heard about it before, if you are interested in light painting effect, I will talk about this topic more on my next update.
Here are my favourite shots.


Infra red filter with blue tone, one of my favourite color.


Infra red filter with Sepia tone, my 2nd favourite color.


Infra red filter with black & white tone.

You can compare these 3 diiferent results with infra red filter.


My favourite.


Another impact one.


I like this flying viel when Patricia is adjusting it.


Lovely texture...


I like this shot, it's just simple & beautiful.


Light painting effect.

My favourite shot in Kellie's Castle

Kellie's Castle, one of my favourite spot for pre wedding shoot. I would like to share with you one of my most favourite & powerful shot in Patricia & Calvin's pre wedding series, hope this picture will give a big bang on coming photo competition ;p
We are planning to run a pre wedding promotion package during wedding hub sales on 8/2/09, limited slot, for those who interested, see you there.
For more info, please contact William, our marketing & operation manager-0123135969 .

Infra Red Photography-Part 2

For those who interested in Infra Red Photography, there are 3 ways of doing it-
1. Infra Red Films-you need dark room skills.
2. Infra Red Filter (Hoya R72)-you need tripod & long exposure.
3. Convert your DSLR sensor filter to Infra Red Filter from http://www.lifepixel.com/index.html
Here another infra red photo taken at Patricia & Calvin Pre Wedding session.
Will update more on this topic soon.

Infra Red Photography

I have not try this effect for more than 10 years-Infra Red filter, during the old days when I'm a commercial photographer, I love to experiment & try all kind of effects with medium & large format cause this will give me a total control like tilting & shifting with front & back panel to do a better correction & focusing compare with SLR that we use today.

At that time photo retouching are too expensive, so when we shoot with films, we make sure that it's the best shots.

I believe trend will be a circle, it will come back after 10-20 years, it's time now to bring back all my experience & technique that I have learn from commercial photography for the past 20 years & apply to wedding photography, hope this will bring our industrial to another level & also will help those new comers to explore more.

This beautiful shot taken at Justine & Chang's wedding, I shoot this with my D80 that already converted to Infra Red camera & add a little blue tone to polish up the picture, that's one of my favourite color after sepia tone.

Dances in th rain

These are the 2 photos for the dreamteam shoot album, one of the photo (Page 2) has won 9th place-Lit Portrait, WPJA Q3 Contest 2008, balance will upload later.

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