Updates in Jan 2010

After much hard work in December we are kind of less busy in January. Most of the time we are working on the post-shooting job for the clients. In order to refresh my mind, I worked with two make-up artists and took two model sets with quite different feelings.

Date: Jan 8, 2010

Venue: Tai Wo

Model and Make-up Artist: Natalie

 

Date: Jan 11, 2009

Venue: Yuen Long Kam Tin

Model: Kennie

Make-up Artist: Kennie, Ka Yee

Besides portrait shooing, I was also invited to shoot some stage photos for the debut performance of 零與一劇團 at Sheung Wan Civic Centre last night. It was a great experience as I found out that it requires some skills to take good photos when the lighting varies for every scene. I also have to be alert when capturing the ever-changing facial expression of the protagonists and their movement on stage. Interesting!

Pray Shop Revisited

Since our first fashion styling set in Pray Shop taken 2 months ago, many of our friends become so envy of the model who had the free will to put on pretty clothes she likes and had me to capture her beautiful moments. Being one of them, Scotty volunteered herself to be our model again when she learned that there are some new arrivals from UK and Japan at Pray!

Although this is already the fourth time we took shots for Scotty, I found that her malleability is quite high and she is able to give people some different feel in each set. I especially like her few mature stylings in one-piece dresses. With a touch of elegance and charm, she interpret the meaning of woman in full extent!

Model: Scotty Ho

Make-up Artist: Zero Leung

Date: September 27, 2009

Venue: Pray Shop

Full set of her photos can be viewed on my fotop:

http://fotop.net/Nivek/0927Scotty

Styling: Bohemian in the Wild

After taking two sets of pre-wedding photos for Scotty, I can say we have already build up a mutual confidence in each other and an upspoken consensus. That's why when I invited her to take a set of styling shots she immediately say "Yes" and completely confide in me. Bohemia has always been my ideal life-style. Instead of adopting the usual colorful tone, I want to express rather a bleak and desolate feel with a theme tone in copper and bronze. After all my favourite autumn is coming! Hope you like these pre-fall styling snaps!

Date: Sep 6, 2009

Venue: Sam Ka Tsuen @ Lei Yu Mun

Model: Scotty

Make-up Artist: Ekko

Apart from digital photos, I have also brought my Rolleiflex T to take some 120 film shots using Kodak Ektar 100 and Fuji Fortia 100. I really love to take films as they have very detailed layering and natural color tone. Some of you may remember that in a previous post I have made recommendations on the Ektar negative film. The Fuji Fortia 100 slide is a first-class film for taking portraits but it is no longer available in Hong Kong. If you like the performance of this film, may be you can find it in Japan!

Taken with Fortia 120 slide - you can see the  person standing out from the background profoundly.

Taken with Ektar 100 negative film - as I recommended before, the color tone is very natural and rich

Fashion styling shots at Pray

Last Sunday was full of joy and fun as I had the chance to bring a model with her make-up artist to my friend's upstairs boutique in Causeway Bay - "Pray" to take some stylish fashion shots. I get to know Ka Yee (the model) and Kennie (the make-up artist) in my portrait photography class last year. Although they work only as freelance, I am very glad that they show their professionalism and 100% trust in me. Ka Yee changed 5 sets of clothes, each of them expressing a different charm of her ranging from a boyish teenager to a sexy young lady. I would also like to send my special thanks to "Pray" for giving me a free hand in making use of their venue and their wardrobe.


Date: Jul 26 2009
Venue: Pray Shop
Model: Ka Yee
Make-up artist: Kennie Lam

warm and cozy....

dandy....

hip and boyish....


lazy and fresh...waking up in the wardrobe....

Styling photos in Studio: for Bernice Ngor

This is Bernice's graduate assignment in her last year's make-up study in Poly University. It was a challenging experience since I need to plan the set up and lighting for 5 different make-up style. Although the girls are not professional models, I think Bernice is good at assigning the right person for each cast. They gave me much inspiration and the photos are greeted with great enthusiasm.

Date: 5/3/2009 & 5/10/2009
Venue: Home studio
Models: Renee, Kwai, Celia, Joey, Gigi
Make-up artist: Bernice


The graceful wind goddess...



The seductive Cleopatra...



The stony cat girl...



The sweet dolly...



The greedy food-maniac...