Well as the title has it, beautiful people are easy to photography. And it was pleasurable throughout the shoot.

I have to admit, shooting a former client’s family member is not easy. The pressure to produce something similar or better is constantly working on you. You keep trying to push yourself amid the weather, environment, and crowd. One thing for sure, the couple had fun, their friends had fun, their relatives had fun and we certainly had fun too.

Congrats to this newly wed may they have a wonderful and fruitful journey together.

You can view the selection Album here :

Sze Harn & Chee Wei’s wedding album

12 hours straight as I have recorded! The weather was no help either as KL was experiencing extreme heat and humid atmospheric temperature. The icing was a garden wedding at the final function where church officials, relatives, and friends packed the garden, enduring the elements but all for the love for the couple. Only timeless pictures can be of tales for years to come.

I’ll share here some pictures during the exchange of vows at the church. Hope you like it.

I was quite sure that I could make it on time since both locations are only in Puchong. So I steadily took my car into the traffic and I was quickly greeted with a massive crawl leading towards the church (residents of Puchong will know what I mean, especially on a Saturday afternoon). By the way, have I mentioned I have never been to this church so I was relying on my GPS unit that comes with phone. It took me 15 minutes finally just to squeeze through the congested traffice lights and I thought I could still make it on time. But as I was making my last few turnings before arriving, tragedy struck again! This time, my phone restarted due to the heavy draw of power from the GPS and the battery was low. If anyone had use one of this GPS with phones (don’t trust em) you’ll know it takes quite a bit of time to reconnect the GPS. So it took me another 10, yes ten full minutes just to wait for it to reconnect. By then I’m really starting to sweat profusely! So I tried hard to gather myself and think. Luckilly Kevin gave me an invitation card that has a ‘map’ behind it! Yea… that’s what saved me.

S0 I finally reached the church, Church of OUR LADY OF GUADALUPE(beautiful church). Got down my car and gathered my gear in a whizz.. as I’m walking towards the entrance I heard a song. I believe its called ‘Here comes the bride’. I got shocked for a moment but thought to myself again, nah, its probably just last minute rehearsal. But as I took a few more steps and took a closer look, I saw everyone standing, then I saw the bridal entourage walking down the aisle. OMG! Ladies & gentlemen, please make it a habit to be punctual ok? (For you guys who adhere strictly to malaysian time anyways!)

Anyway, I gathered all my strength & called upon the last drop of my adrenaline and took a dash towards the church altar and thank god, I was just half a second quicker to catch the first line of the bridal entourage and snapped away hastily with my other camera still hanging loose somewhere in my arms!

Here are some of my fav shots. Enjoy!

Sprinkle!

Performances & dances are aplenty!

First dance...

Disco! Disco!

Click on FS at the bottom right of the above frame for bigger picture. Also, check out the more photos here!

- Alex Yang

Check out more photos here.

- Alex Yang

Well, coming back to real life where most if not all these works and coordination works are carried out by none other than your faithful photographer. In malaysia sometimes, its called ‘Hey Cameraman’. gosh…

The most we have is a make-up artist that carries a whole set of portable make-up kit plus lots and lots of tissues (2 ply) and if budget allows 1 more additional photographer’s assistant aka ‘Ah Chong’. So the pressure is really HIGH to produce a master piece to say the least. Lets face it, the shoot is normally scheduled for 3 days and most maybe 5 days, also with the ever changing climate system it is really not easy to predict it. If Apollo (God of the Sun) is shining upon you, blue skies, white clouds, colorful sunsets are almost guaranteed but otherwise grey all the way.

So as a photographer or Photo Artist, we have to determine the right time, right place, and the right everything to make the shot. We are the sole whole crew which has to plan and do everything from A to Z and hopefully our faithful star-actor and actress aka the couple can play their role with minimal NG.

The result – A scene to remember. Years later, you can still take out your album from the closet or underneath the bed, brush off the dust, browse through the photos, taking yourself down memory lane, remembering the shoot, feeling the atmosphere, the laughs, the sweats, the breeze, the smell, the shouting blah blah blah…

Now is that worth??

With our wedding preparations kicking off to high gear now, we went to Armadale to tryout some gowns. Its ironic I used to take other humans’ pre-wedding all the time but now its my own turn. Now I can really feel the pressure in all the preparations needed to make the shoot a success, which I don’t see when I was the photographer for other people.

Anyway these are some of lisher’s choices of gowns (courtesy by Armadale). Hope you like them as we did

Tell me which one you like best ok?