December 2007

Check out the current issue of the The HIPLIST, Celebrating the Art of Malaysia’s Wedding Photographers! which is on sale now in the major bookstores and newsstand! We are being listed in these niche publications which is dedicated to Wedding Photography!

Quote from The Hiplist, “We have in the past few years witnessed a proliferation of the wedding photography segment of the industry. New entrants now vie for a ‘slice of the pie’ so to speak together with long established names in the market. Fortunately though, the market is still sufficiently large and capable of supporting the increasing number of wedding photographers.

As a publisher however, we feel that our direction for the future will not include developing another run-of-the-mill publication to rival the traditional bridal magazines. Indeed even our sister publication weddingsmalaysia does not compete directly, as it distinguishes itself from them by offering what the traditional wedding publications do not offer. What we will develop however are niche publications – ‘target-specific’ titles that will complement weddingsmalaysia. These niche publications will focus on specific segments of the wedding industry where each title will be entirely dedicated to a particular element of a wedding. We believe that these specialist titles will encourage couples to delve further into the service providers represented, learn more about their business philosophies, their styles and ultimately get to know them better before making an informed decision on whom to appoint.

The first of these niche publications is dedicated to Wedding Photography and it is on this premise that THE HIPLIST – WEDDING PHOTOGRAPHERS has been published in September 2007.”

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Two months ago, I posted one of our beautiful couples Carlin and Sinyi whom I had taken their wedding shot in Australia.. and now my team  has come out with their beautiful albums. I have many people writing to me on how our album layout look like.. our design team have come out with this beautiful album..

These are how the pages gonna look like..

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This is the restaurant that is situated in Jalan Padungan, and they served very nice western food and awesome cheesecakes! Its a corner shop, you won’t missed out the place especially with the large Green and Red signboard!

This place is great for private dining as well as they have a private room on the upper floor. I love food shot because it makes me go hungry!

I was commissioned to do the shot for Thomas, the proprietor of TOM’s who is also the Chef!

The gear I used then was, Nikon D100 DSLR, 80-200mm AFS f2.8 Nikkor Lens, 2 Hensel flash tubes, with 90X90cm Hensel soft box, 30X30cm translucent diffuser and round white reflector .

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Last weekend, I was commissioned to shoot the lighting of Christmas Trees and fireworks at the Hilton in Kuching. It’s the time of the year that most people around the world are slowing down and spend more time with their families and love ones.. This is also the time of the year that we bid farewell to 2007 and welcome 2008! I haven’t had the time yet to look back and see what have I achieved this year. I want to spend some time during the holiday season to work on this.. as it’s a very important part of my life in achieving my goals but.. all these come back into taking action..

Questions on how to strive to be a better person and what can I contribute to the society and the world remains a constant struggle!

Shots that were captured to mark the festive season 2007 for Hilton Kuching.

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Sorry everyone.. I have been very busy lately and missed out on updating my blog… The last entry here was dated 25 Oct.. So sorry… I have received comments and emails from readers asking about some updates.. some wrote, “why no update” or “look forward to your update soon” some wrote, “Alvin, are u in town?” I am fine and just busy meetings with datelines.. sorry everyone..

The month of November and December are mostly filled with weddings in my agenda. However, I still managed to do some commercial work for various companies.. Among one of them is the Sarawak Convention Bureau or known as SCB. The will bid for conventions and bring them to Sarawak and they are involved in mostly the logistic planing of the group.

Would like to share with you all on the shot which I did for their commercial. Its the local Cat Dance shot.

And, we were waiting for one fine day (as its the rainy season now) to shoot another marketing shot for SCB. They wanted shots of their Chairman, Dato Seri Dr Muhammad Leo Michael Toyad Abdullah playing kite with their Chief Executive Officer, Ms Jill Henry. It was a fun day but poor Dato Sri and Jill, they had to run numerous times down the hill and up the hill for me to get “the shot”..

Dato Sri Dr Muhammad Leo Michael Toyad held various portfolio in the ministerial and the assistant ministerial position in Malaysia including the federal Tourism Minister and the Deputy Foreign Minister post.

Jill who used to be the General Manager of the Perth Convention Bureau in Western Australia, Australia, who was responsible for securing the International Congress and Convention Association’s Best Marketing Award a record two times. As the Bureau’s inaugural CEO, her top priority is establishing a team approach to bring clients, tourism and convention industry suppliers and government together to win bids and stage successful conventions.

Here’s the shot…

Once again, I apologise for being silence for a while.. and for now I am Back!! haha..

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