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This set of pre wedding portraits were taken at the Aloft hotel in KL Sentral. The Aloft Hotel is a really nice location for weddings and one of the really interesting features of the hotel is that the wedding couple can drive their wedding car right up and INTO the ballroom. Cool or what?
Tengku Badris and I met up to discuss his upcoming wedding back in September 2013. Career wise, he started as a news photojournalist and is currently a news editor with Agence France-Presse. He wanted unobtrusive photojournalism for his wedding to Mayuko in Negeri Sembilan.
On the day there were close to 40 overseas wedding guests from all over the world. many of whom were also photojournalists which made me quip to the groom when their coach rolled up that it “Looks like the press have arrived”. Most of them had not been to a Malay or Muslim wedding so they were fascinated and soaked up the culture and enjoyed traditional food. The Japanese guests especially enjoyed the completely new experience.
After the ceremony Tengku Bahar Idris’ mother thanked us for our being so discreet with our handling of the wedding which was particularly satisfying. A wedding photojournalist needs to move as quickly and quietly as possible as they anticipate where they need to be for each part of the ceremony, or where the best angle will be to capture the brides/grooms or other family members emotions as the story unfolds.
His Uncle HRH Tuanku Muhriz (Yamtuan Besar Negeri Sembilan) and Aunty HRH Tuanku Aishah Rohani, along with his cousins Tunku Ali Redhauddin and Tunku Zain al-’Abidin were present for the wedding and following lunch.
For the sake of their privacy I am not going to post up the photos, however they were very pleased and would like us to return to cover the next family wedding later this year.
I am looking forward to it.
Jaclyn and Michael’s wedding was held in the Roman Catholic Church of the Holy Spirit, Greenlane, Penang. It was a smaller wedding but loads of fun as everyone knew each other. Jaclyn had a beautiful dress as you can see in her portraits. The other nice touch was on her shoes in the very first photo below. Very cute 🙂
The portraits were mostly conducted at the very crowded Batu Ferringhi Beach. (Some claim it is where “First Contact” originally happened 🙂 ). Lots of congratulations were given to Michael and Jaclyn but it was a bit of a challenge to find anywhere without capturing a myriad of sun worshippers enjoying the beach in the background. We had to get creative with the sky and the lighting. People who follow me know we have been using radio activated strobes for close to 15 years now. That experience came in useful for the portraits!
Dinner was held at the Park Royal hotel as was the tea ceremony which punctuated the banquet through out the evening. I have other tea ceremony photos on the site so for the sake of space am not posting any here today.
Finally I would like to point out how unobtrusive we are at weddings. Have a look at the church ceremony photos below. I mention this specifically as at two weddings we did last month the grooms mum and best man both thanked us that we were not in the way or obtrusive. I have become increasingly aware that this is a problem with a fair number of younger and less experienced photographers. Anyway, we believe the day is about you so we try our best to be the fly on the wall.
Michael and Jaclyn’s entrance. Quick note: The purple and green tinges are from the increasingly popular LED lights that are being put into many hotels.
These make colour correcting skin tones a bit of a chore and why we use external radio controlled strobe lighting.
Day is done. Ouch! Our feet need a break!
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Just a quick post from this weekends wedding in Penang. It was held at the Roman Catholic Cathedral Church of the Holy Spirit. I will post some more photos later but am busy packing now for an overseas flight tomorrow to cover a destination wedding.