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A Boost
Above: Shot with Nikon D300 on a all time MOST CONVENIENT lens, Nikon 18-200mm travel lens. Hunting for sunrise, this was captured last year during an outing with some of my photography buddies at the Buntal Fishing Village, 40 minutes drive from Kuching city.
I always thought this image is a good image. I don’t usually credit myself for a picture but this is one rare occasion where I think this image should be credited. When I failed to impress the judges in last year’s WPPI first half competition, I was disappointed. It was totally clueless for me and had no idea why this image didn’t work.
When come to the annual WPPI 16×20 Award Of Excellence Print Competition 2012, I took a stand and just gave it a try again. Print competition works differently. I needed to get my images printed, get them mounted professionally and courier to the USA to be judged. Each participation in such competition did not come cheap. Other than the submission fees, the courier charges, I couldn’t recall how many prints had I fail to get one to be printed perfectly and correctly. (Yes, we print over and over in oder to ensure we get the best result)
This time, is a boost. An image that earn my favoritism finally get rewarded. Despite it wasn’t a First, Second of Third place award, but to me, a recognition of our hard work and creativity with a simple Accolade of Excellence is more than enough. 85 points seem not too bad though.
Here is another wedding photo that earn Accolade Of Excellence in the same competition, captured in Vincent and Evonne’s wedding on 19 November, Kuala Lumpur.
ISPWP Competition’s 2nd & 8th Place
It was just in time to receive the latest result from International Society of Professional Wedding Photographers (ISPWP) competition before I departed for Vietnam a few days ago. To me, joining a competition is to see where my level is in the standard of world’s wedding photography industry. ISPWP has pretty high standard of judging criteria for the competition, and having these recognitions of my hard work is just too encouraging.
After the first attempt in ISPWP’s competition with a score of 4th Place in Bride Portrait category, I am honor to have a 2nd Place in Framing The Subject category as well as 8th Place in All About Light category. Both images are shown as below:
This 2nd Place image was created early this year, on the 15th of January while celebrating Jon and Isabelle’s wedding in Kuching. I had this idea of doing some wedding portraiture at the multi storey car park in the same office building at my gallery. Jon and Isabelle did not have their pre wedding session, and to have their portraits taken at this unusual location is something very daring, or I’d say a breakthrough for the bride and groom. I am certainly glad they took risk to trust me. This image is specially dedicated to them.
Yutaka and Ai, our Japanese couple who flew all over from Tokyo and had us to do their wedding portraiture, had this imaged nailed at Karabrunei Resort. I remember it was a rainy afternoon and we had to continue shooting in last December. We chose this staircase and started to play with lights. I had Kester, my good friend who assisted me that day to hold a flash light pointing at the couple and had my imaged nailed via Radiopopper. The rim light on the couple was created to separate them from the dark background while the shadow on the left was created via staircase railing . Since then, I am addicted even more to light, especially with Radiopopper.
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