23/04/2011Doina & Zhen Wei

I always like small and intimate weddings. The virtue of a cozy wedding allows the couple’s families and friends to spend more quality time with the newly weds. Usually when they are more involved with the ceremony and activities, it is when I get a lot more wonderful shots of the folks having a great time. As solemn as it should be, a wedding is still a party of celebration after all.

Doina and Zhenwei’s wedding celebration, held at The Regent Singapore, was exactly what I’ve described.  Doina slipped into her lovely gown by Emanuel B. Couture and as time ticked down, she got really nervous. I decided that I’ll distract her by taking her out to the balcony for some portraits and it worked! The rest of the ceremony was greatly enjoyed by their touching vows, great speeches and not forgetting a goofy song that Zhenwei prepared for Doina. It was truly touching and emotional.

Thank you Doina and Zhenwei for this beautiful day and I wish for the best in both of you.

 

20/04/2011Durga & Pawan

The day started at the Khalsa Dharmak Sabha, where Durga and Pawan held their traditional Sikh wedding ceremony with their families. I was intrigued by our cultural differences and absolutely enjoyed theirs. It was a simple ceremony, however the effort put into the details of the wedding was remarkable. In this post, I wish to share more than just the love they share, but also the intricate details of what goes on in a traditional Sikh wedding.

14/04/2011Patricia & Daniel

The day started on a cool side, it was raining. It was one of the simplest wedding I’ve shot. No snatch-the-bride games, no over-traditional customs and no hot sweltering weather. Daniel and Patricia held their wonderful wedding at the Church of St Mary of The Angels. It was a beautiful modern church, with plenty of natural light and more importantly, their lovely guests. Despite such simplicity, I’ve managed to push my boundaries of wedding day photography to focus on family love and also pick up an award placing for the Weather category in the 4th quarter of AGWPJA contest.

The Wedding Day Slideshow

 

Some of my favourite shots of the day.

The wedding album is part of a family’s heritage. To many, it becomes an heirloom.

Nothing dampens the happy occasion

The award winning piece

The lovely natural light of the church.

Pure love.

21/03/2011Workshop @ Singapore Art Museum

About a month back, I conducted my first ever seminar on Wedding Photography co-organized by the Singapore Art Museum and Clubsnap Forum. It was certainly nerve wrecking to speak in front of more than 100 aspiring photographers. At first, I was rather anxious about the turn out as it was still raining 30mins before the start of the talk. I was really happy and felt appreciated that we maxed out the capacity of a hundred. So thank you all for coming.

For this session, we managed to find a real couple, Alicia and Philip to be our models for that evening and a good handful of photographers manage to get to try their hands on the equipments sponsored by Profoto Singapore. I also managed to have Alicia styled by my very good friend and extremely talented Jacqueline Law. Despite being a short 2-hour session, it started with a good introduction of how I achieved my photographs with the basics of lighting techniques and posing. The evening continued with the practical session which I’m sure everyone benefited from the experience. Below are some of the images taken during the workshop. I apologize that the group photo was only a small part of those who attended as it was a very late decision to take that photo.

Once again thank you to all those who attended my workshop, Singapore Art Museum and Clubsnap Forum & Moderators for organizing & helping out, Profoto Singapore for the equipments, Alicia & Philip for being the model, Jacqueline for the hair and make up styling, and my good friend Sherman for dropping by to offer me a helping hand.

14/03/2011Sandy & Wayne

It started pouring as we left the National Museum of Singapore, we decided to wait out the rain as the evening approached. The dark clouds loomed over our heads as I paced in and out of the shelter hoping that the rain would stop. In the earlier part of the day, the weather was so fine with fluffy white clouds and cerulean sky. The day started out when Jean and I arrived at the Conrad Hotel, the view from within their suite was simply gorgeous. Sandy, stood in her stunning gown by Silhouette The Atelier as the brilliant Gin Tan was doing her final touches on Sandy’s hair.

Sandy and Wayne are such an adorable couple and I must say that they are really natural in front of the camera. I remember the first time I received Sandy’s call and she exclaimed that I have a new fan and started raving(to me) about my work. It was unfortunate that I was not available to photograph their church ceremony however my associate SK did an excellent job on my behalf (the same day edit of their church wedding slideshow can be found at the bottom of this post.)

More importantly, I believe it was Sandy and Wayne’s kind and optimistic character that eventually stopped the rain. It wasn’t the best sunset we’ve seen but it was a totally different kind of feeling for all of us there at the bridal session.

 

from the heart,

Bryan

Reflection is kinda my thing.

Isn’t she stunning?

The afternoon sun was brilliant.

It started to rain just when we left.

This was photographed in a small pavilion

And then the rain stopped

It was still good

And the last shot of the day, as it started to rain once again. I love how the raindrops create the texture in the photo.

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Church Ceremony (photographed by SK)

 

 

 

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