Month: October 2007

  • Thu + Justin’s Wedding
    Little Rock, AR

    This will be among one of my most memorable wedding.  The main reason are Thu + Justin are some of the nicest and warmest people I’ve ever meet, it’s a testament to the way their parents raised them.  I was invited to their home the night before for dinner and they treated me like one of their own children (who just happened to be taking pictures) throughout the whole weekend.  I don’t usually get hugs from the groom but I got some from Justin by the end of the night and even the next day before leaving for home !  With all the time that I’ve spent with these two, I can see that they were meant for each other.  Somehow, I don’t think this will be the last time that I will see them .

    I wanted to give a shout out to Kevin Mai aka biGnOoDLeBOi, whom I meet here on Xanga, for assisting me the whole weekend.  For such a big guy, you sure have a small bladder !  But it’s cool, you can handle all the transportation’s duty anytime, if it mean I get to sleep.

  • Time to get noticed

    This whole year has been great.  I spent a lot of time learning about photography so that I can take my images to a higher level. Although I can never achieve perfection in my images, I’m at a point where I can be competitive in this fierce market.  It’s time to advertise. 

    Dallas have this magazine called D Weddings (can’t direct link to it, but it’s on the left, half way down), and one of my goal was to advertise in it.  Sure, anyone can plop down a chunk of money and be in the magazine.  The requirement for me was that I must be at the top of my game, both in business and in imagery.  I’m really nervous and excited about this b/c my work will now be compare to other great photographers in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area.  The public will now decide if my work are worth their investment.  I’ll find out when the issue hit newstands in December.

    This is my full page ad that I designed.  Two things that bother me are the logo and the baby blue color on my contact info.  I went with baby blue b/c it ties in with my website, even though it might be hard to read.  And I think the logo might be too small relative to a full size 8×10 page.  Let me know what you guys think, the deadline is next Wednesday.

    *** UPDATE ***
    Thank you so much to everyone for their thoughtful criticisms.  It really mean a lot to me when you took the time out of your busy day to try and help.  From all your criticisms, I present you… version 2. 

  • Thu + Justin’s Engagement

    Thu and Justin came all the way from Little Rock, AR for this Sunday’s morning shoot.  The reason why I like to shoot on Sunday’s morning is b/c most people are either still asleep or at church, so most places will be deserted and you won’t have people walking into your background.  Now, I’m not saying that you should ditched church for me… but I thought that’s why they have Confession .  Thu and Justin were just so fun and their energy level didn’t fade one bit, which just encourages me to think of new idea to shoot.  I ended up with around 800 shots, normally I average around 300-500 for an engagement session.  I still go through and study each shot, especially all the bad one, to find ways for improvement.