July 29th, 2010
Some weeks ago, RazorTV interviewed me about unusual locations for wedding photos. I invited them to join me for a night shoot at Joo Chiat with Michelle & Saiful (awesome couple).
Here’s the thing: I wasn’t particularly keen on the topic. Why does everyone believe that unique locations make unique photographs? Everyone thinks that photos are “normal” because they’re done in the same places – studio, botanical gardens, or some beach with standard poses. Even photographers feel the same. No wonder most wedding photos are boring.
Photographs are made by photographers. Don’t blame the location. If every photographer cares enough to use their imagination, every photo will be special, simply because every photographer is unique.
Anyway, we had great fun during the shoot. The RazorTV crew were nice people, very sporting, and followed us right till the shoot ends. So thank you, and my name is “Lim”, not “Kim”, so please change it in the video before I change my mind about you.
I must mention that Michelle & Saiful didn’t request for any particularly special location. They trusted me entirely, and left all decisions to me. Thank you, I couldn’t have asked for more.
Here are the clips on RazorTV. Michelle & Saiful’s night shoot is featured mainly in part 2, and in bits of part 1.
Part 1
Part 2
Some photos from the shoot:
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June 27th, 2010
This was in my old blog, I thought it’ll be fun to post this here:
on my first visit to a nearby food stall selling butterfly buns (sugar-coated dip-fried twin buns, my favourite snack):
“One butterfly bun”
“How many?”
“One”
2nd visit:
“One butterfly bun”
“How many?”
“One”
3rd visit:
“One butterfly bun”
“How many?”
“One”
4th visit:
“Butterfly bun, One”
(butterfly bun promptly delivered without question)
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June 20th, 2010
It seems that I have a habit of pissing people off whenever I write.
Here’s the fact. Whenever I finished writing an opinion, I would read, and re-read, and re-read another hundred times, let the idea sit for days, and still couldn’t decide if I should publish it at all. When writing, there would always be a tendency to soften my stance, make my opinion more agreeable.
The fear of rejection, of being unpopular, of being hated, is scary.
What if I offend my fellow artists? What if clients hate me? What if people who love my work but hate my attitude, and turn their backs on me? What if business goes downhill, all because I write things that should have been hushed?
Why should I worry so much?
As you know, I always ended up hitting the “Publish” button. Reasons are simple. I don’t write to blow my horn (that’s not me). I find it meaningless to begin every post with “oh how I enjoyed this wonderful session with the nicest people I’ve ever met…”. This is not a corporate blog, and this is not a place to indulge in rainbows and unicorns and butterflies fluttering all around you 24-7 – life is not like that. This is a blog of an artist, you will learn about him, his work, his principles and inspiration. No masks, no pretentious babblings.
I should probably write more. Again, you don’t have to agree, but anyway… welcome to my blog.
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