Last weekend was a very tiring weekend.

Jason and I were asked to cover Sunny and Patricia’s engagement last Saturday in Singapore. Since both Jason and I both do not know Singapore well, we decided to spend the night in Johor and then catch a cab into Singapore. Our initial plan was to head down south after work on Friday. Which was also why we decided again driving into Singapore, especially at night. Anyways, to cut the story short, it was a financial disaster. The next round, we will drive directly into Singapore.

Sunny and Patricia were great to work with. They had great friends who were also wonderful in front of the camera. I think it is important that subjects are comfortable in front of the camera. This paves the way to even greater photos. Of course a good photographer makes the subject feels comfortable, but only if you have the luxury of time. In our case, or rather in most actual day weddings or engagements, time is usually not a luxury that we have.

Here are some of the teaser photos taken during that Saturday. More will come later.

See.. friendly people. Very eager to be in front of the camera.

All photos were shot with the AF-S 50mm f1.4G lens wide open @ f1.4, except for the last one which was shot at f2.8.

After the registration, they headed off to a nice cruise in a yatch. Everything was completed by lunch time and the happy couple ensured that we had a full tummy before letting us off. How considerate of them.

Jason and I then wondered Singapore for a bit before deciding that we were a little too tired to wonder anymore and thus headed back to Johor in preparation of our long drive home. So that Saturday, I had my shower at 5am. The next shower I had was almost midnight. I was smelly, sticky and extremely tired. My nice comfortable bed never felt nicer.

The sky was blue, very blue. It was just too bad that last weekend’s sky is not as blue. The last photoshoot before this was the CLS workshop which would benefit a lot of from clear blue skies.

But it’s all good…

Just that the sun was hitting down on us a little too hard. And both model and photographer were under the mercy of the sun.

And many of us had a hard time reviewing our photos on the camera’s LCD.

But.. dem… the sky..

very blue isn’t it?

As always, i do not have much photos of the model as i was merely facilitating the photoshoot. So i shot from the behind the photographers. But here are a couple of the photos of models..

Peggy…

Winx..

Not much to say… just that the place was certainly cooling. And its one of the VERY few photoshoots which I did not sweat like a pig. hehehe.

Anyways… the day started very early. I was out of the house before the sun rose over the horizon. And the hills were misty and all that as we were approaching the location. Sg. Congkak is about 45 minutes drive from the city. Quite a good get away.

at the car park..

jasonw suggesting poses..

and away the snapped..

and snapped…

The trees provided much shade.. which proved to be a welcome treat as it stayed cool through out the shoot

Some streaks of sun managed to sneaked in, which was still a good thing because if casted some illumination for the shoot

see the model ‘lighted’ up by beams of sunlight which managed to sneaked through the canopy of leaves

snipers..

and of course, a shoot in sg. congkak will not be complete without the model getting wet.. hehe..

And lastly… the group photo…

PS - the ‘gila’ group shot…

and…

last lastly….

probably the only nice shot I got from the whole trip. waahahaha….