Good weather held for a fun-filled pool-side buffet to celebrate Wilayne & David coming together as a couple... but maybe, just a little too much good weather as in a scorching afternoon sun resulted in a little too much warmth. Nevertheless, it was a fun-filled event and there were lots of times where it became more than low-light, it was closer to no light.

Well, spent this afternoon shooting the back story and back fill for PJEFC's Project Harvest Musical. Shall not spill the beans or the plot here but the following is a bit of behind the scenes action with all our studio lights blazing! Surreal!

While there's no news of the upcoming 5D replacement, there is a 50D in the works... Screen shot of the website here.

EOS 50D Specs:
Sensor: 1.6x crop CMOS
Proc: DIGIV IV
MP: 15.1MP
LCD: 3" VGA LCD
VF: 95% viewfinder .97 magnification
AF: 9 point af
ISO: 100-3200 (Expansion to 6400 & 12800)
FPS: 6.3/3fps
Buffer: 16 RAW - 60 JPG - 10 RAW+JPG
Feature: Dust Reduction
Feature: Auto Brightness Processing
Feature: Microadjustment
Feature: Face Recognition AF
Feature: HDMI Output

Had a really long day covering this wedding but in the end, it was absolutely worth it! So much energy, fun and joy that it was impossible not to get some of it on you even though you're chasing people down to photograph them!

This time by Kong Weng while I was batch processing about 150+ photos and assembling the 'Our Big Day' Slide show. I look more relaxed now since at this moment the photo was taken, the slide show was almost completed.

Had a jammed pack weekend starting at good friend's wedding and ending at my parents place doing re-potting and other stuff. A long sleepless week with a few problems didn't help things much and my wife's PC decided to expire peacefully at 7:04pm, Thursday, July 31st. Cause of death is two blown capacitors. Oh, well, time to upgrade. Anyways, after conducting a FlashWorks 101 lession on Friday night, I put all the batteries into chargers, packed my gear and slept at 1am.

05:38 : Woke up due to heat and couldn't get back to sleep
06:20 : Little dog barking (my iPhone alarm clock)
06:32 : Aromatic coffee (Starbucks Rwanda Blue Bourbon) to kickstart the system
06:45 : Shower and soon after, load-up and head-out of the house
07:10 : Arrive at Jalan Selangor House
12:40 : After two houses, arrive home for lunch. Down 500ml of water, 325ml of 100Plus
14:00 : Download photos and take shower. Batch convert from CR2 to JPEG, downsize.
14:45 : Finished shower, and hit the road again.
15:05 : Arrive at Bible College of Malaysia - Wowzers, it's 100 degress in the shade!
18:30 : Arrive at Bangsar Seafood Garden. Immediate download of photos
18:50 : Test run of first slideshow. Restaurant notebook crashes, Flash doesn't work on backup PC.
19:01 : Batch conversion from CR2 to JPEG. Test my notebook to Projector
19:20 : Finalize slideshow and re-arrange some (reviewing it yesterday made me realize a few more photo sorting/ordering slips)
00:30 : Arrive home. Take shower.
01:00 : Review my photos and my wife's photos (from another wedding)
02:30 : Crash into bed.

You can check out the some of photos on Anna-Rina's blog here. It's always fantastic to always meet another awesome photographer and how could anyone be more cool than Anna-Rina? Plus she managed to snag my big ass blocking the entire view at Church! Awesome!

© Anna-Rina

Had a full weekend with chores, meetings and photography of a certain kind. Anyways, here's one photo I approached it using some tips I picked up from Louis' workshop. Yes, I know it's a tiny pitcher plant but who says wedding photography and macro plant photography are different. In case you're wondering, it's for my brother-in-law's new blog.

Caught in action by my lovely wife

In case you're wondering, that's the Think Tank Modulus System - Pro Speed Belt, Pixel Racing Harness, Speed Changer, Lens Changer 75 and R U Thirsty.