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A list of all the latest family, corporate, model shoots and wedding photography shoots in a chronological order. This is by no means and extensive list. It takes time to put posts together and the busier I am the less likely for me to update here. I am also constrained by server space.
The Front entrance of Restoran Fei Chui in Kajang. Lots of parking below and behind.
We covered a Chinese wedding in Kajang over the last two weekends. I didn’t know of Restoran (restaurant) Fei Chui, nor that it was such a capacious venue. I think it is busy with weddings most weekends as it is likely THE major wedding banquet restaurant venue in the Kajang area. Very good banquet experience. The food was good (not always the case at wedding banquets) primarily because they are a restaurant and not a hotel, and the couple and their friends were great fun.
Beautiful wedding floral centre piece – photographed with off camera flashes controlled by radio. You can see two of them firing in this shot.
Same shot with available light. One of the reasons I shoot with remote control off camera flash is because some clients complain their skin colours are off and want me to photoshop it to look natural. Sometimes that’s just impossible to do. Everyone’s taste is different. There is no right or wrong with this.
View from the stage. I think there were 70 tables in total!
I have been moving all of my older weddings from decaying DVD’s onto a new server and have been coming across some real gems of weddings that we have covered over the past 15 years(!) I realise now that when I moved from my old HTML 1.0 web site to wordpress that hundreds of my older wedding posts never followed us along! Ouch! So I am busy picking out some of them for reposting as time permits. This wedding is from December 2005. Back then we were shooting with the Nikon D2x and Canon 20D. Just viewing the images today I realise just how far camera sensors have come! Visible noise in ISOs as low as 400. Back then we were still transitioning from film so it wasn’t a concern, but in light of what we have today…wow! Now the tech talk is out of the way let’s talk about this wedding.
Peter and Akiko are members of the Malaysian Philharmonic orchestra. They are still there with them 8 years on so do look for them when you visit the MPO! Their wedding was at the Datai Resort in Langkawi. We have covered a few weddings there and I do hope to put more up as time permits. Peter is Slovakian, and Akiko Japanese. They decided on the Datai as it is a classy resort and neutral ground for both families. Peter’s family flew out from Slovakia while Akikos came from Japan. It was a small and intimate wedding. The Datai did a great job with very tasteful arrangement of flowers and the dinner setting. Akiko’s good friend Maho, and Peter’s brother Miro also attended. Both are also in the MPO and it turned out were courting. We covered their wedding when their turn came about! More on that in a future posting.
Akiko looked beautiful as she prepared for the ceremony at the Datai
Akiko’s anticipation is evident
Last stages of the preparation before heading to the Datai’s beach wedding location
The brides family waited for her at the Datai’s pool side
Grooms father found the weather at the Datai rather balmy
Brides best friend from the MPO. We shot her wedding a few years later!
Hands communicate so much
First kiss
The beautiful bouquet
Portraits on the beach in front ot the Datai langkawi
The happy wedding couple
A classic wedding portrait pose. Cliched perhaps but will always be welcome on a mantle piece.
Romantic
Sun has set
Beach portraits. It was much darker than it looks here.
An inviting wedding dinner set up on the beach at the Datai Langkawi
These photos are from a recent product photography shoot we did for Hartelega. Hartelega employs about 6,000 people and make 1 BILLION gloves per month, mostly for export. They are an OEM rubber glove producer for medical companies all over the world including Japan and the USA. The term “rubber gloves” covers both Latex and Nitrile glove materials. Nitrile gloves complement normal latex gloves as they are more resistant than natural rubber to oils and acids** and are about 300% more resistant to punctures than normal latex gloves. They are also used by those with latex allergies. On the other hand (that wasn’t an intentional pun but worked well) latex gloves are a lot more stretchy!
All of the gloves have to either meet or exceed international standards. The photo shoot was in one of their testing labs and I would have to admit it was nice to be in research and testing facility again. The model for this shoot was…..me. :-) We needed someone with western sized hands so I ended up as the obvious choice and had one of those rare moments of being on the other side of the camera.
**NB while this is a photography web site and not a chemistry one, I would hate for anyone taking this as a blanket statement. Strong acids and especially Nitric Acid can cause Nitrile gloves some problems. If you are handling nitric acid on a regular basis I am sure you are well aware of these potential issues.
My dad was an organic chemist.
Gloves are an essential protection against corrosive chemicals and dangerous biologicals
This shows how stretchy the latex gloves are.
Pretty Green
This shouldn’t hurt a bit. I like the orange gloves.
Unless you are in the industry, many people don’t know that Malaysia is well known worldwide for making rubber gloves for many international brands. I know I didn’t until we headed down to Hartalega to take photos for some of their managers and directors for their Annual Report. I will do some posting of our product shoot – in which I was the hand model! 🙂 – in another posting but for now lets see how great their managers look.
These images were shot in their new office foyer using their entry way back wall as the photo back drop. Ended up as a three light set up.
