Quite a few folks were surprised when I mentioned that I do wedding photography as well. Well, to set the record straight, yes, I was a full time wedding photographer back in 1998 till 2002, my style were a mixture of 70% formals and 30% documentary and I shot strictly film at the time *grins* But these days since I’m busy with some other type of photography work I seldom take wedding assignments. But from time to time, when I have the time, I did accept the occasional wedding do, especially if I happen to know the Client lah.

How time, and style, has changed tho. What’s old is new and what’s new is, _well_, actually quite old (Oh yea! Matt Marzuki, a friend of mine, like to rib me being an old skool photographer, me with my ‘classic wedding formal pic and all’ *LOL*. Okies Matt dewd I mentioned yer name in my blog, people gonna flock to your site soon ha!). People hardly shot film anymore (interesting fact: 99% percent of participants who erm, participated in my workshop, never touched a roll of film,let alone handled a film camera, the other 1%, will buy a Lomo™ or a Holga™ for the fun factor) and for the ‘B&W’ look most people use the Channel Mixer menu thingies in Photoshop to get the well, ‘B&W’ look (‘B&W here stands for Black & White’. Interesting to note that even tho the term just ‘specify’ the colour ‘Black’ and ‘White’, in B&W prints there’s a whole lot shades of grey as well! Hold on, isn’t ‘Black’ and ‘White’ also a type of colour? Hahah Did I confuse you already? Still with me? Good lah, read on then).

*Take a breather as Ted just lost his train of though…*

Oh, I hardly shoot film anymore, except for personal projects, and those personal projects are getting more and more expensive to shoot, since film cost, especially Black & White films, has gone up. And supplies are erratic locally, but one make do lah …

Ahhh, where was I?

Oh, this is a lighting blog after all, well, my point being, sometimes, you don’t need fancy lighting gear, or multiple portable strobe (or flash, if you prefer that term *grins*) set up all over the place for your work… .

Sometimes, telezoom lens (80-200/70-200 with a fast f2.8 aparture) were required…

..while on some other occasion, a normal/short telephoto lens (around 50mm or 85mm, which is my fav focal length) is all you need.

Will a single photographer be able to capture all the moments on your big day?

Not likely lah. While one photographer set-up the formal posed shot, the other photog will take a lot of candids lah. Dua-dua set punyer gambar boleh pakai

But end of the day lah kan, when both bride and groom are comfortable with you, YOU the photographer, will be able to ‘capture’ a great moment for posterity.

Oh, and remember, sometimes, available light is all you need for great photography *wink*.

Acknowledgement – Thank you to Mr Wan Adlan & Ms Amal Najmin for permission to illustrate this blog post with photos of their big day lah*

Mr Wan Adlan manages the Odyssey Prestige Coaches, if you need to travel to Sin City, checkout the schedule here lah.