24 May 2012

Giang Tri Wedding

The sweet couple Giang & Tri got married last weekend after knowing each other for 10 years and 1 day. That was a moving and fun wedding and I am so honored to document the wedding for them.  The whole thing lasted for 7h and I was knackered after.
I took around 600 pictures in total, but I just want to share a few here as they are enough to give an idea of how the event went.



 


























 


























 
























 




12 May 2012

Giang & Tri Pre-Wedding

Chatsworth, a place of romance with an impressive history dating from the 16th century, is situated in Derbyshire & the Peak District. The setting is beautiful and this is where a lot of wedding ceremonies take place nowadays. I was so lucky to have an opportunity to shoot a pre-wedding session at this magnificent place last weekend.

These are a few from the set.










3 May 2012

Before and After

With introduction of digital photography, we now can easily manipulate an image to make it look better. In this post I would like to show what can be done with Photoshop to enhance an image.

Let me say a bit about my work flow and a bit of my philosophy on post processing. I shoot exclusively in RAW. Of course I always try to do everything right in the camera - this involves looking for a good location (I do watch out for background every time I press the shutter button) looking for good natural light or complicated lighting setups, but raw gives me more flexibility in post processing when things don't go accordingly to plans. I know there are a lot of people who just shoot JPEG and can do absolutely amazing post processing, from minor colour corrections to turning the image into a "fairy tale" painting. :)