Someone had recommended for a corporate shooting. Few portraits shot for their internal employees, purpose of the photos to be used for their corporate printing like Poster and PowerPoint presentation/PPT Cover.
Client had briefed me with specific photo’s brief and also gave sample of what their regional office has done. Things like photo position, background and photo dimension. The main points have highlighted was “…a natural setting. The photo should have a documentary feeling, not a studio photo. ”
Here’s some sample.
For PowerPoint cover, I should provide a wide background with the subject positioned far right.
Where would be the best place for the photo shooting? Either we choose office or warehouse. But again, to get the natural out of focus background, the depth of fields has to be more than 10m so that I could get more blur effects.
Planned to use flash Speedlite to bounce back the light, but due to the height of the warehouse it might be not a good idea. Furthermore, limited natural light is another concern.
Finally found some idea to give enough natural light to the portrait, I bought a piece of car sunshade, cardboard with alum foil and cost only RM18.90. It worked fine as a reflector.
Choice of lens, I was looking at the bigger Aperture such as F1.4 or F2.0. Before the actual day, I have ‘assigned’ my little girl as part-time model. By using my prime lens 135mm F2.0, without any flash, just hanged the reflector with both tripod at the site, and she was standing right middle of the reflector.
See Results:
On the actual day, I have brought 4 tripods, 3 for reflector, and one Manfrotto for my camera. I’d spent few minutes at the warehouse and tested out some shots before calling the ‘models’ (employees) to get ready. Looked for a good position and used masking tape to mark the standing spot. Once the setting has up, it was easily taken less than 10 minutes for each individual.
Follow by the brief given, to have the wide background and position the portrait on the far right. Only solution was to snap extra 2-3 blank with manual focus (Blur-mode) while moving camera parallel to the left. So that I could matched them and combined into one complete piece.
First shot on portrait with a reflector on the bottom. Yeah, some of them have to manually hold on to it 
Moving on my camera with 2 to 3 shots to left side with same focus (set to Manual Focus).
After the RAW proceed, I’d used Adobe Photoshop to match them together easily.
More shots with the same setting. Click to see large version.
Come across this KLIMS – Kuala Lumpur International Motor shows (www.klims10.com) had over since December, and it was one of
the biggest event I’d been to in year 2010.
Thanks to Joe’s wife who are the main organizer (www.interexpo-my.com) for this event and managed to get a Press Pass. Not a free entrance tickets but a pass allowed you to zig-zag in the events which pretty fun and allow me to flexible moving around.
Well, KLIMS not just about cars (static model) but live models. Honestly, the last show I went was year 2006 and it was bigger and more things to see. I had predicted what is going on for this year and most of the cars were not my main target.
Bumble bee?
How about Bumble bee’s model? Ha, definitely the live models were much more interesting than the still models.
Obviously my aim for this trip, not for the cars… it’s all about the beautiful and elegant models that I wanted to captured for.
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My friend has planned to be main distributor for this needle-free injection from Canada (MiT) (www.mitneedlefree.com) in Malaysia market. It was not a new technology but it was not common used in Asian market. The jet injection system provides less pain and delivered accurate in depth of human tissue and surface.
Alleron (www.alleron-my.com) is a new set-up company, and main core business for the needle-free product. Their target audiences are mainly beauty centre and clinical. Well, this equipment was considering new trend and I was excited to work on the booklet design; in addition, it also requested my input include of product photograph.
A success of promoting a product, we would have models to accomplish it. Since it was low budget project, the only thing I can think of was to find some suitable candidates for the shots, end up I managed to found one young model from my church.
After few selections and make the final choice of it. The picture was nicely position in booklet.
I have designed few concepts and using different patterns for the cover, due to the jet system in white colours and to contrast it, the background has to be dark and strong colors.
Here’s the final piece of booklet printed in matt lamination.
Last Sunday was last day of school holiday and my church had organized a “Kids Fun Land” for the children around 3-10 years old.
It was fun to see them having fun before they going back to school, as usual our programs included some bible story, dancing and games. And we did a mini Olympic for kids too, just enjoyed seeing them having so much fun.
“Professor Blur-blur”?
Time to move your body with our Bee-man!
A little science experiments to amaze the kids.
Wife was giving Bible Story to the children. Plus our professional actor who were acting seriously on the stage to make all the children understand more about the story!
This was the moment for them – games. They love it so much.
However, I didn’t manage to photograph much. Still learn to steady my arm and hand while taking with my Prime 135mm. Some of the shots were not that great, shake and blur. 
To work on an eInvite for SAA eNewsletter. And launching date is quite close and we need to send out the mailing as soon as possible; nevertheless, was asked to have it with Asian Faces. In the other hand, who will be the best candidate from TMS‘s staff (of coz with 0 cost).
With a glance, I need someone who is tall, fair and smart looking. Obviously, George and Huey Ling have them all.
Taking this opportunity to showcase my skills and ideas. Using my 30D and speedlite 430EX without any proper backdrop.
After process the RAW in my CS2 and some simple outline tracing jobs. Here’s go the results…
If anyone interest to be my model, kindly email me at twentyplus@gmail.com
31 May 2008, it was a great Saturday, there was 2 big event happening in KLCC, one of it was the biggest book fair held in KLCC convention center (Kuala Lumpur Book Fair @ BookFest). And one of it which I had planned weeks ago – Canon World of EOS that located right middle of KLCC shopping center.
Yes, I went there just for the “EOS Grand Photography Contest, Model runaway show and Photo Contest.”
Again, to gain some experiences for stage photography, not only that, I went to the Canon Service Counter for FREE services, which I was surprised they have clean your gear in details, lens, filter etc. And I’m very happy coz I have not sent my gears for service since years.
Waited for half an hour, Canon model Runway was almost begin after my gears have been “Cleaned”!! By the time I reached the stage, Gosh! There’s about 200 of experts who have been standing there and taken all the nice spots. I’ve seen some even standing on 2nd floor… hmmm… Lucky I have my Prime 135mm which i could zoomed from far. Somehow I managed to squeeze into the crowd about 15m away from the pretty models.
However, still managed to grab some nice angle.
I have taken more than 160 shots, no regret; Coz I’m happy and believe some of the shots are greats. After filtering those images, and I have decided to pick one of the most “creative” one. Or I would said I’m lucky somehow the lighting splash through her eyes.
Finally, printed and submitted to Canon. Not so much to win the prizes… but it’s fun and experiences.
To view more of the models, please go to www.creadaq.com.
