Happy Chinese New Year

If there are one major event that Chinese shouldn’t miss in their entire year, if will be 年三十(direct translation will be year thirty or we called it new year eve) it is the major time that as a family far and near gather together and have a big feast dinner. While this year we can’t really gather the whole family members since my brother one in Ireland while the other one in New Zealand, those of us are here in Brunei continue with this tradition of feasting.

Then during the night, we played a few fireworks to keep the kids happy and excited and blasted a 36shot firework canon!

First day of Chinese New year, spend the whole morning trying to setup and capture some family portraits. Using 2 flash as strobe with umbrella, I got a decent result with studio lighting. But the whole scenario was frustrating to me in a way that the 2nd flash didn’t fire most of the time, due to slow recycle speed and it eat battery like crazy. Simple term : unreliable!

Then the second issues I have is the backdrop, the background that I have at home wasn’t suitable for a full family portraits so the result wasn’t as satisfying as I want, gonna need to do some photoshop or retaking if necessary if I want a better result. 

   This is one of the technique that I learned during my times in KL, this is actually shooted with one flash as a strobe gelled with a full CTO (orange color) filter to give a sunset look. It was taking around 12plus pm.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

But other than that I have plenty of fun shooting them, knowing that whatever it is, I manage to capture a memory and moments of our family history.

A bit more on Chinese New Year 2010

Lately due to chinese new year, I have pretty much in holiday cruise mode even at the work place, which is pretty bad though. Some more I haven’t updated the photo that I meant to upload. . .  so today I better upload some before I get even more lazier :p

Here is our family photo for 2009, due to my two brother + family wasn’t around. So it is quite a small group, hopefully next year I can get a even better family photo :)

Today, Mary invited us for her open house after our breakfast, so we happily obligate ourselves to accept her invitation >w<

As usual, always enjoyed the foods + company of fellowship with some photo taken.

I also changed some photoshop technique instead of my usual pp with some of the photo’s, more of it you can check out my FaceBook, feel free to comment if you like to ^w^

Happy Chinese New year

 

First day of Chinese New year, been pretty relax for me though. Spending almost a hour to take family portraits, especially for our ladies >w< It is also during this portrait session I realized I have so much more to learn about body posing, studio shoot. The lack of equipments + knowledge + experience do really reflect on this time. Nevertheless, once I done with the photo touch up, I do hope that my brother & the kids will like it.

Anyway, for the 1st day of Chinese new year, I decided to go easy with my visiting and only visited a few places.

Obviously that my stomach was filled with foods & drink from various home, but it was a pretty sitting down, eating, chit chatting with one another.

So, how’s your CNY visiting going alone? ^w^