Photographed by leeabrio
Asst. Photog: Uniokeez
Pre-wedding Sessions: Francis + Joy
All Rights Reserved 2012
The fun part.
Another addition to my pre-wedding sessions. Francis is my friend for over 10 years now. I have witness their love and friendship and i'm really honoured & thankful that they have chose me to shoot their pre-wedding. This is where i say "I love this job". lol
I took these photo's last Saturaday 21st of April 2012. We don't have much good locations in mind so we decided to do the shoot at the beach on a formal suit. I've no idea why every time i think of a beach location i always end up going to Meragang beach. Probably its because of a good sunset view projected towards the sea line and not much people around so i get less disturbances on my frames. lol The only thing is that you need to have a very thick skin to get immune with sand fly bites. its terrible!!
A lot of people asked me what are the gears/equipments i used for shooting? I remember last time i shoot my first Client/Commercial shoot where I only used my old Canon 50D + kit-lens 17-85mm and 50mm 1.8,
2x400ws elincrom dlites c/w standard sofboxes,& Canon Flash 580ex2. I manage to survive with this equipment for few years untill now. (ofcourse i'm not a full time) lol
For this Session, I started doing a test shot with my 50D + 50mm 1.4 sigma lens attached, i tried using ND8 since i'm shooting at around 5pm where the sun is still harsh. I did not get any success trying to over power the sun with my 400ws Flash Head, i wish i had 1200ws to play around with. lol. I love shooting against the light/harsh sun but not this one. So i decided to used my other Canon 60D + 70-200mm Canon lens attached. I noticed the the sky on the other side of the beach is turning gray so i made a few test and when i checked my shot i was so blown away with the light and colours. And i started using the Sun as my main light source and my flash head for kicker light, I play around with an aperture of 2.8 lowest to 5.0, and shutter speed ranging about 1/250th of a second or less depending on the exposure i'm getting from the sun.
Shooting outdoors is not easy, I am fortunate that i have a willing lighting man and at the same time assistant photographer who holds my light and battery pack during the shoot. Thanks to Uniokeez for doing so. Next time i will get a 10kg battery pack and bring my huge octabox on the set. lol. Thanks & Congratulations to my friend Francis & Joy, i can't wait to see your wedding and sorry for the sandfly bites. hahaha.
LA
