Victor's Photoblog

Blog has moved~~

jrhew — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 15:38:12 +0000

I have moved my blog to a faster and nicer blog at my own domain.

A little bit of Michelle&ChuanChee

jrhew — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 14:18:30 +0000

After a double back to back wedding assignment over the weekend, i’m totally burn out. The photos were amazing i couldnt stop looking at them till i doze off in front of my comp.
Anyway, I had great fun, its never more fun to spend my weekends on happy occasions like these.

Here is a little bit of potrait shots which I did for Michelle and CC’s wedding today in a rundown playground near CC’s house in sungai petani.

Classical jaguar

A little bit of fun time in the playground

time to zzzz……more photos to come. Stay tuned.

Mark & Jane

jrhew — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 04:05:44 +0000

I love this outing with Mark and Jane. Both are from Australia came to malaysia for a visit. They had engaged JAC photography service for their sort of pre-wedding shots. So i had this great opportunity to get a few awesome shots for them around EnO hotel penang.

Oh, in case some of you are wondering what is JAC all about, and why are all my photos tagged with JAC below is because I’ve recently joined an organization which provide photography work services. You can visit us at www.jacphoto2u.com.

Anyways, here are a few shots,
oh, as for the photos, i resize them to be slightly smaller again as the previous ones were too huge, it fits well in a 22″ lcd load page, but it looks weird on a 17″ lcd, so i guess most of us uses 19″, so i’ll fit the photos well for 19″ lcds.

adding in a little bit of taste.

Lastly, every set has a personal favourite. Here it is….

Jensen & yoonyan (My first assignment with d700)

jrhew — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 12:25:26 +0000

Today’s posting will feature my first assignment with my d700. I had a great time on the sunday morning with this pair of love bird, jensen and his lovely fiance, yoonyan.

I’ve been looking back at my blog and I find that the photos are too small. So from today’s posting onwards, i’ll be posting my work in bigger size. Hopefully it will not cause a huge lag to readers loading this site.
Without further ado, here are a few shots i did. gosh, i love these shots. Thanks jensen and yy.

3. a classic black and white to this memorable shot.

5. a little bit of action

6. and finally, my personal favourite.

D700 part 2 (ISO!!!)

jrhew — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:12:55 +0000

Ok, I think I’ll be blogging alot and telling everyone stories about how I really feel on this new system. Heck, I am still excited getting acquainted with the d700. I’m still going through the thick manual reading its function 1 by 1. Looking for a function in a nikon d700 is like going into amazon jungle, you’ll have high chances of getting lost. It took me like 2 minutes to look through the menu to find the freaking auto ISO sensitivity option and turn it off. But I suppose its just a matter of getting use to it.
I find canon’s big dial is more fun to play with.
Yesterday, i fooled around with a 20mm lens shooting night scene handheld outside my apartment. Now i’m not gonna be comparing d700 ISO performance with 50D’s ISO performance, its just a different league, maybe someday i can borrow a d300 or a 5Dii and write to you about it’s ISO performance. I took the shots below at f4 at 1/30s shutter speed. Its noise performance is amazing. Check it out. erm, white balance for both shots is different, i was too excited shooting the 6400, i forget to set it back to the standard white balance.

ISO6400!!

You may view the really large size here.

ISO3200~~~

Large size here.

However, i was a little curious about the noise performance of in camera jpeg and post processed raw file jpeg.
So here is what i managed to fool around with.

This is direct from Camera at ISO6400

Large size here.

While this is RAW file conversion

Large size here.

and here are iso 12800 and 25600 jpeg direct from camera

ISO12800

Large here.

ISO25600

Large here.

my next post, AF~~~ stay tuned.

Andrew & Eelin

jrhew — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:59:11 +0000

Andrew and Eelin were married on a lovely december sunday morning. I started the day early in the morning at 7am travelling down to bukit tambun penang. Despite the early wake, i was extremely excited to shoot Andrew and Eelin’s big day. Both Andrew and Eelin were introduced to me through JAC photography, I had a little partnership with Christopher from JAC to shoot Andrew and Eelin’s wedding dinner reception at EQ hotel and with me covering the rest of their wedding day event.

Andrew and Eelin were easy going, shooting their wedding day had really been exciting for me. Though their wedding were pretty simple, it is still filled with lots of fun and laughter, watching the heng dais getting through the obstacles setup with the ji muis has never fail to add to the joy and laughter for the day giving me lots of chances to capture these wonderful moments.

Anyway, I wish both of them happy together and thanks to Chris for introducing this lovely couple. Not to forget wan ching for her great work and support for the day.

Here are a few shots of the day.

Eelin and jimui.

Eelin were pretty shy on this shot, but it turned out really great!

the duck walk

i love the expression on her in this shot.

and finally

more to come with dinner reception photos.

Nikon d700

jrhew — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 08:33:55 +0000

After a looong thought and much hesitation, I’ve finally decided to move to canon’s arch-enemy, nikon systems, as a start for this new year. So I gathered all my courage and ordered a nikon Full frame D700, as i knew my next camera has to be a full frame. But unfortunately, I’ve been waiting for the 5D replacement a year ago and was very excited over canon’s announcement over 2008 photokina. However, the 5DII’s spec is very much a disappointment for me. 21 mpx? I’m not sure if canon did any market survey on how many people needs a 21 mpx camera, definitely not me, so I would only use its sRAW which is 10mpx, still enough for my wedding work and landscape as I do not do large printing. The 3 year old autofocus? The ancient 9 plus 6 invisible autofocus point dated back in 1st generation 5D days, in which performance is crappier than a 50D? How is 5DII gonna compete in the coming 3 years until its replacement comes by? On top of that, I have to put up with possible chances of banding problems in sRAW mode, the mode in which i’ll be using and black dots all over my images on blown out highlights. The only thing I see fancy is the ISO performance which is pretty similar to D700, other than that, I don’t see a point on spending that much money on such a camera. hmm… in fact, I don’t understand why 5DII is even out of stock everywhere. So, how about the old 5D? The price for the old 5D is still RM7k, and a D700 costs only RM7.5k. For 500 extra, I get to upgrade to a newer system.

Those of you who knows me will know how much a big fan I am of canon, I’ve owned a few canon lens and body. I started from the very old 350D, up to a 30D, and 50D with a few nice L lenses and wide angles. Not a huge investment compared to those with 300mm f2.8L or big white sticks, but I suppose I do have put in quite a large amount to my gears.

My D700 came yesterday, I took the camera out from its box, my first thought was, will I ever be able to manage so many buttons? Nikon cameras has buttons all over the place, where as a Canon 50D looks like it has 2X less than it. Of course, Nikon doesnt have the big dial like canon, damn i’m gonna miss that big dial. After a few shots and manual readings, I find these buttons are great! They are like shortcuts for autofocus modes, I can flip between these modes in a flash without looking into the mini LCD, press the AF button and guess which dial should I dial to swap modes(sometimes i just forgets which dial i need to use to change modes on a 50D after you select the function change)

So far, the d700 has been performing extremely well on every shot I take. All I can say is its really putting my canon to shame. Every feature, every function nikon puts in their camera has a photographer’s thought in it. For example, the eyepiece shutter. Yes, Nikon has an EYEPIECE SHUTTER!! As for the canon, you have to MANUALLY remove the eyepiece, and try very hard to cover the viewfinder with a piece of crappy rubber which comes along in the strap. What is that ancient manual crap? and maybe most of the canon users do not know what the hell is that rubber stucked in the strap if they do not read the manual.

So far, I’m still going through the manual for my D700, its like a dictionary, I suppose the size of manual comes in proportion to the number of buttons you have on camera, the manual is 2X thicker than the 50D. Will post more of my thoughts of Nikon camera from a Canon user point of view in my next blog. Stay tune.

The really thick nikon manual

My D700

Its bye bye to 2008, hello to 2009!

jrhew — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:07:02 +0000

2 more days till 2009. I started looking back at what I’ve achieved throughout 2008.
This year has been a really exciting year for me, I had been shooting quite a number of exciting weddings in Penang and KL, from using trishaw to pick up bride to church weddings. I am glad I have the honor to be their main photographers on their very special day.
Besides wedding, I’m being hooked up with a few kids portrait shooting in which I too had a really great time getting to know little kiddos. Shooting kids photography is quite a challenging task, especially those who are running high on sugar. Much trial and errors were done. Luckily it didn’t take long for me to get a good shot for their kid, thank them for their patience
On top of that, been to semporna, Sabah. I had some learning this year in travel photography with Mr Pang Piow Kan. Mr Pang has been a great teacher to me sharing his experience in travel photography. Semporna photos hasn’t been published here. But I intend to do so someday. hey! i’ve already drafted the blog, i just havent publish it.

Anyway, 2009 is almost here. I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a Happy new Year and not to forget Merry Christmas. Eventhough its 3 days late. better said than never.

Meet Colin and May

jrhew — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 16:34:18 +0000

Finally, i managed to dig up some time to write a blog entry about this really interesting couple i had the honors to shoot their special day. They had the day planned out well. In the morning, Colin brought 10 “heng dais” while May’s ji mui count was 10 too. The tests for the groom always fills the day with laughters. Colin and “heng dai”s are sporting and down to earth, going through every tests the ji muis laid out for them.
One of the few most looked forward event of the day was the church wedding, in which i had always wanted to shoot a church wedding. Church weddings are pretty interesting, i prefer to shoot it with another partner to cover at different angle, lucky i had an assistant for the day for more coverage at different angle.
Anyways, i enjoyed the church wedding shooting very much. Colin and May had gave me a great opportunity for that.
Thanks C&M! I wish you both happy marriage. lets go for more hokkien mee when i go KL for a visit.

Last but not least, not to forget my assistant for the day wan ching, thanks for the extra coverage and…. great work.

Here are some shots for the day. More to be added real soon.

Morning

colin doing his “pole” dancing

Not to forget, the church
Start of with some “taste”, i love this shot for its simplicity

Classic black and white

Colin n heng dais, i called it “the mafias”

and lastly, not to forget, May and ji muis

Gerald’s potrait

jrhew — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:19:43 +0000

Shooting kids have been really fun, they are so natural. I enjoyed myself very much in this potrait session. It was more like a day outing with Gerald rather than a potrait session.

Gerald is turning 6 next week~ happy birthday Gerald.

Everyone, this is Gerald,

in his style

and something you get for paying off your model,
a smile….so original.