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Who moved my blog!

2010-08-17T23:26:00.004+08:00

Whoa... stay calm people. The blog is still alive and well. I do admit that I've been very quiet lately with very little posting, but I have a good reason! The blog is getting a new face with a new engine underneath it. After using the blogger engine for close to 3 years, it's time for me to migrate to the wordpress engine which I think will allow me more customization and upload larger pictures! Also we will be moving the blog to our own servers so please update your links to

www.dannychewphotography.com/blog

All the post from this blog has been migrated to the new link and server, of course I will still keep this blogger site around but all updates will be on the new link.

So here's Adieu! to the old and Hola! to the new site to catch my latest blog post!

Chill Out this 20th June 2010 @Whizarts Wedding Boutique Studio

2010-06-18T00:03:00.002+08:00

Join us this 20th June at the Whizarts Wedding Boutique for our Chill Out session. Meet our photographers, videographers, wedding gown designers and many more vendors; who would be happy to help you plan for your big day.

See Loong & Ching Wei @ Peranakan Mansion

2010-03-04T13:54:00.006+08:00

Ching Wei has such a lovely smile and is a real natural in front of the camera. And once See Loong got warmed up we got great shots of both of them. We had a portrait session at the popular Peranakan Mansion which is always a great place for portraits.

Here are some of our favourites!

Kar Jin & Selena @ Peranakan Mansion

2010-03-03T14:50:00.011+08:00

Kar Jin & Selena traveled back to Penang to have their ROM with family and friends. They are such a lovely couple. Kar Jin has that cool as a cucumber look while Selena is such a fun person laughing almost the whole duration of the shoot! After the ROM we were at the fantastic Peranakan Mansion. The mansion is culturally rich and is a wonderful place for a pre-wedding session.

Enjoy the photos!

Moon Leng & David @ Evergreen, Penang

2009-12-22T15:09:00.004+08:00

Moon Leng & David engaged us for a relax portrait session with their family and a dinner reception. It was such an intimate event with just close family and relatives. They had a total of 4 tables only and I do enjoy such family gatherings. It's a time to catch up and re-kindle relationships.

Here are my favourites from the day.

Nicole is so cute!

David looking oh so cool!

Madeleine & Chu Siang @ G-Hotel, Penang

2009-12-22T11:43:00.006+08:00

Madeleine and Chu Siang had their wedding party travel up with them all the way up to cultural Penang from KL. And I'm not saying 2-3 people, I'm talking about more than 20 of them! Talk about great friends! It was a blast as all the heng tais very so sporting and did everything that the chi muis threw at them. Madeleine and Chu Siang are such a lovely and fun couple, they are constantly smiling and laughing. Thanks guys for giving me the chance to capture these moments.

Enjoy some of my favourites.

Mimi & Joo Hong @ Johor

2009-12-09T09:57:00.013+08:00

Mimi & Joo Hong's wedding was held in the quaint town of Segamat, Johor. The great thing about small towns are the smooth traffic flow! It's so easy and fast to get around. Anyway, Mimi and Joo Hong were great hosts and we had fun doing our relax portraits eventhough the weather was not cooperative.

Here are some of my favs.

Getting they keys out from cold ICE water!

Mimi's parents are really sporting.

Edward & Kelly

2009-11-27T23:47:00.017+08:00

Edward and Kelly gave me the privilege to fly all the way down from Penang to Kulai, Johor, to photograph and immortalize their precious moments. They were both fantastic hosts ensuring my wife (who was assisting me) and myself were well fed and taken care off during the whole sessions. They were both such a humble and warm couple that we had a fantastic time photographing them and came up with some great shots.

Here are my favourites!

Kevin & Swee Koon ROM @ Sg. Petani

2009-11-01T22:18:00.006+08:00

Kevin & Swee Koon are a lovely couple. They are so very down to earth. I was invited to participate in they ROM and we had a great time doing a few cool portraits with the bridal party. Enjoy!

Daniel & Melissa @ Vistana Penang

2009-10-16T23:54:00.008+08:00

Photographing another photographer's wedding is always a professional challenge but it can be also very fun and rewarding they would know what you are trying to do and be very accommodating. Daniel and Melissa's wedding is one such event and boy did we have loads of fun and laughter. Daniel being his meticulous self did a wonderful job in his planning and the wedding went so smoothly. And Melissa being the beauty that she is just radiated!
Daniel and Melissa allocated an hour and half for videographer extraordinaire Kee Sitt and myself to do their relax portraits. I can't thank them enough for setting aside time for us as it allowed us to captured many cool and intimate images of them. I always encourage (sometimes insist!) couples to allocate time for a short portrait session. Enough talk and on to the images. Enjoy!

Isn't Daniel one cool looking cat!

Red sky over Cameron

2009-09-24T09:33:00.005+08:00

The long Raya weekend was a great excuse to get some R&R with family and friends. We headed up to a bungalow in Cameron Highlands where we had a totally relaxing weekend (minus the holiday traffic jams). Having steamboat in cold weather is always the best, you don't sweat pints! We had a great evening sky and I took the opportunity to do some quick portraits.

Baby Portraiture: Chun Pheng

2009-08-17T01:00:00.008+08:00

My newphew Chun Pheng. Camera shutter count is going up and up and up... My wife has given me the task to photograph him weekly. Phew... tough job, but I got it easy still. When he starts to crawl and walk and then run... man, you'll see me losing weight then!

At 1 month.

At 2 months.
At the curr

Collaboration with Whizarts

2009-07-11T01:18:00.009+08:00

I'm proud to announce that Danny Chew Photography is in collaboration with Whizarts. I'll be shooting as a senior photographer for Whizarts, hence for all you folks who've dropped me queries, don't be surprise to get a response from my friends at Whizarts.

You may be asking, Why? Well, Ke Wynn from approached me with this proposal a couple weeks back and after some soul searching and much deliberation I've found this to be the right choice for me to grow at this juncture. Plus Ke Wynn is such a great person, his generosity and trust in me is just humbling.

So keep an eye on this space for more great images!

ShootFest001

2009-06-21T23:33:00.006+08:00

Images courtesy of Mark Leo.

This is a delayed post. Alright a very delayed post :) I had the opportunity to participate and speak at the inaugural ShootFest001. The first un-conference that I've every attended. I had loads of fun talking and literally laughing my head off with all the participants! These folks are soooo funny. At the same time I learned so much from speakers such as Kee Sitt, Dennis Thean, Kris Wong, Alex Lam, Jon Low, Zach Chin and Jenny Sun. Not only about photography but most importantly about marketing and branding. On how to reach the correct market and make sure you give first class service all the time. Guys, thanks so much for sharing!

I talk was on how to do a Wedding Fashion Shoot with 2 Speedlights. I hope everyone was able to bring away something from my talk.

That's me speaking. Thanks to Mark for the image :)
EeYern was gracious enough to be my shy model :)

Finally a crazy booth photo of me and Zach Chin goofing off. Scissors... I'm going to get nightmares from them!
Picture courtesy of Zach Chin.

Well, ShootFest001 farewell. I'm looking forward to ShootFest002 :)

Meeting with wedding photography giants

2009-05-26T22:50:00.004+08:00

Last Sunday evening I had the greatest pleasure hanging out with 30+ photographers at La Bodega. Louis Pang was generous enough to share his experience about WPPI such as what is it about and what it's not, how can photographers benefit from it and about the WPPI conference held every year in Las Vegas. After hearing his sharing I'm even more motivated to attend the WPPI conference. I'm setting a personal goal to be able to attend the conference in 2011. It'll give me enough time to prepare myself both financially and mentally to absorb the tonnes of knowledge and experience that I will get there. I'm also motivated to join the WPPI print competition where Louis shared a few tips on how to submit an entry. It is heartening to see a successful Asian photographer like Louis winning awards and gaining recognition. It's given me more driving force and confidence that anyone with enough passion, lots of hardwork and endurance is able to make it as well.

I was also pleasantly surprise and excited to see the likes of Zung, Patrick Low and Jenny Sun at Louis' sharing. It's was great chatting with them as I just love their work and follow their blogs closely. They were such warm and friendly folks that you would guess they are very successful high-end photographers.

At the end of the night the most important take away that I got isn't just Louis' great sharing or meeting the Signature Photographers, but feeling the energy and passion of a group 30 odd folks so keen on photography that you just feel drunken with enthusiasm and camaraderie. I'm now really looking forward to the ShootFest Unconference where I'm going to meet another large group of enthusiast that's just going to re-energize me!

Here's a quick grab shot of Louis, Zung and Patrick chatting away.

Mei Foon & Kam Wai

2009-04-27T01:59:00.008+08:00

Mei Foon is a long time friend of Hooi Chai and me during our university days. She and Hooi Chai were housemates for a year and she would often beseech Hooi Chai not to let me wait out in the hot noon day sun for too long waiting for her to get ready! Well, today I had the privilege to return Mei Foon's kind favours and photograph her wedding ceremony. It was a simple affair with close family members, which gave us ample time to shoot some relax portraits. Please enjoy my favourites below :)

Pregnancy Portraits

2009-04-05T00:32:00.008+08:00

We spent the evening shooting a few nice pregnancy portraits for my sister-in-law Hooi Yah together with her husband Kang. Here are a few of my favourites.

Louis Pang's From Ordinary to Extraordinary workshop

2009-03-24T22:53:00.007+08:00

Louis Pang has announced his 2009 From Ordinary to Extraordinary workshops! If you are interested in improving your portraits to be utterly stunning and beautifully lit this is one workshop that you wouldn't want to miss. After joining last years workshop, my images have grown tremendously as I've expanded my vision as well as technical know-how. During each portrait session I'm constantly applying the techniques that I've learnt to improve every shot! Check out the workshop details here.

The first initiates to the LPS workshops!

Chiffon and Lace: Designer Bridal Gowns

2009-02-27T00:00:00.006+08:00

Danny Chew Photography is proud to be associated with the folks at Chiffon and Lace. Chiffon and Lace is an online boutique specializing designer wedding and bridal gowns. (FULL DISCLOSURE: My wife is a partner at Chiffon and Lace)
It was a tiring but very fulfilling month of weekends to produce these dramatic images for Chiffon and Lace. It was a wonderful opportunity for me to push my creative as well as technical limits and further grow as a photographer. These images were taken in and around Penang. It just goes to show how rich Penang is.

Here's a couple more of my favourites. Head on over to Chiffon and Lace for more stunning images!

Sneak Peak: MayLing and LimChoong

2009-02-26T23:56:00.002+08:00

A peek of what's to come... stay tuned!

Family Portraits: The Lau's

2009-02-21T14:27:00.007+08:00

Over the Chinese New Year, Siew Fui, baby Chloe's mum, invited us over to photograph her family. We spent two morning with the family photographing the children on the first day and spending sometime doing family portraits on the second day. We had a great time hanging out with the children and the rest of the family. The Lau's are just so warm and friendly; we enjoyed a delicious homecooked breakfast with them. Phew! it's really tiring chasing after two energetic kids. Heheh.. it's helping me in my goal to hit the 32" line :)

Here are some of my favs.

Happy Chinese New Year!

2009-01-25T22:42:00.003+08:00

I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a Happy Chinese New Year!
Here are a couple shots taken at Petaling Street, Chinatown of Kuala Lumpur.

The famous "Hokkien noodle" in Petaling Street.

Christmas and New Year Celebration Feasts

2009-01-04T20:28:00.011+08:00

I just love the festive seasons, it's always a great time to have lots of interactions with the family and strengthen the bonds between us. It is at these times away from the hustle and bustle of work one can truly appreciate the family life. One of my favourite family activity during this period is to enjoy great food. Fantastic tasting food couple with the great company of family members is a difficult combination to beat. This time around my pre-new year resolution was to maintain my weight during the holiday season, since I know we'll be having lots of food I figure it would be un-realistic for me to actually loose weight! Well, I'm please to announce that I'm able to keep to my limits (I think that doing the annual spring cleaning helped!), so I'm into the new year with my old weight (which I won't disclose here :P). Loosing weight is in my new year resolutions (a separate blog on new year resolutions), which I guess is also in 90% of everyone's resolution! Anyway, I have more motivation to loose weight in 2009, tell you all about it later.

To end this post, do enjoy the photos of the delicious food that I got to sample this holiday. Here's wishing everyone a Merry belated Christmas and Happy New Year!

Chrismas Day Luncheon at Bruno's.
Lentil soup. Smoke salmon above.
Fresh bread with olive oil/vinegar dip.

Seafood Paella. This is one of the signature dishes at Bruno's, a must have!
Xmas turkey!
Suckling pig.

Lamb. This is so delicious, the meat is cooked just right with lots of juices locked in.
Xmas pudding.. soooo sweet.
Tiramisu.. Yum!

Japanese food at RakuZen:

Very very fresh sashimi.
Soft-shell crab temaki.
Saba fish. My family found it simply delicious.. I found it fishy.. :P
These thinly slided meat looks nice...
It's actually ox tongue!

The whole feast.

Baby Chloe

2008-12-04T20:18:00.012+08:00

I want to thank Siew Fui and CK for inviting my wife and I over to their place for lunch. We had a blast eating home-cooked spaghetti and an even bigger blast photographing their baby, Chloe! She just so adorable and cute. Babies are one of my favourite photo subjects, they just give you so many expressions! Did I mention they are sooo cute! We topped of the great day with a cake baked by Siew Fui. Delicious!

Here are my favourites from that day.

Jasmine & Elmar @ Macau

2008-10-14T13:02:00.009+08:00

My wife and I went to Macau and Hong Kong to celebrate our first holiday as husband and wife and took the opportunity as well to have a portraiture session with Jasmine and Elmar, who went there with us to watch the infamous Cirque Du Soleil show (more post to come on my Macau/HK trip).

Jasmine and Elmar are really naturals in front of the camera with they easy postures and relax demeanour. It's was so easy to photography both of them. The architecture in Macau just lends itself naturally to the photo.

Jasmine and Elmar, thanks for giving me the chance to hang out with both of you.

They're naturals!

Any funny too!

The View, Equatorial Penang

2008-08-17T15:56:00.006+08:00

To celebrate our first wedding anniversary my wife and I bought along our sisters to experience one of the best fine dining in Penang at The View restaurant at Equatorial Hotel Penang. What can I say about the food... simply delicious! The ambiance is really quiet and comfortable, really suitable for a romantic night out. We had the semi-buffet where you order one main dish while the appetizers and desserts are bufffet style. One thing to remember is to save space for the main dishes as you can get carried away by the very fresh and tasty appetizers. I've tasted one of the freshest oysters and smoke salmon here compared to any other eateries that I've ever been.
Here are some of the mouth watering delicacies!

Family Portraits: Hoo Kooi and Co.

2008-08-17T14:26:00.008+08:00

Hoo Kooi invited my wife and I over to his new condo at Regency Heights, Sungai Ara, for tea on a lovely Saturday afternoon. We took the opportunity to grab a few family portraits. His daughter just like any other kid is sooo full of energy, she gave me a full workout trying to grab shots of her!
Here are some of my favorites. Enjoy!

Portraits: Bam Bam

2008-08-10T12:54:00.007+08:00

Meet Bam Bam, our resident golden retriever. Just like people dogs have their own expressions to portray their feelings.

Expectant face

Just looking cool face

Greedy face: begging for food!

Looking for symphathy

Guilty face! Bad dog!

Sleepy face

Sad face: You're grounded!

Typical drooling face.

Random Portraits

2008-07-14T22:22:00.010+08:00

These impromptu portraits and "action" shots were taken during a photo-walk around in May with fellow photographers :) It's really great fun spending a morning walking around the Penang Heritage trail to document the buildings that are so full of history. More post on the Heritage trail soon.

PWMF'08 Photo Published in CLICK! Mag

2008-07-14T16:26:00.006+08:00

This is old news but one of my photos from the Penang World Music Festival 2008 got published in the June edition of CLICK! magazine. It's really exciting to see your own work published in a circular that's read by many people who have interest in photography. Having an image publish just makes me wanna produce more and better photos so that I may share it. I hope this is just the first of many photos to be published :)

Update P/S: I've finally found the correct way to have larger images posted on blogger :)

Portraits @ Georgetown

2008-05-24T23:05:00.017+08:00

Earlier this month a few of us took a couple hours and went around the jetty area in Georgetown, Penang and took some impromptu portraits. We had great time parading around the streets and posing for the camera.

Here are some shots from the day.

Penang World Music Festival 2008

2008-05-11T23:01:00.018+08:00

I had the privilege to join a group of photographers under the patronage of Arden Khoo from ePixels to photograph the Penang World Music Festival 2008. This is the second year after its inaugural start in 2007. Featuring a wide selection of music from folk songs and country music, all the way to modern rock. It was culturally inspiring to hear music from bands all around the world including Reunion Island, Iran, Tibet, Denmark and Crotia! The handsome guy above is from the group Taeda all the way from Ireland.

Here are some of my favourites from the 3 night event.
More images can be viewed here. Thanks to Arden and Bryan for setting up the gallery.

Mono Blanco from Mexico

Afenginn from Denmark

Salem Tradition from Reunion Island

Kumpulan Kinabalu Merdu Sound from Sabah, Malaysia

Taeda from Ireland

Galants, Tu Perds Ton Temps from Canada

Diplomats of Drums from Malaysia

Kries from Crotia

Techung from Tibet

Balfa Toujours from USA

Lo Cor De La Plana from France

Kenge Kenge from Kenya

Louis Pang's From Ordinary to Extra-Ordinary Workshop

2008-04-20T13:30:00.000+08:00

Woohoo!!! I had a fantastic time last weekend learning and shooting with a group of passionate photographers, led by the one and only Louis Pang! I'm talking about Louis' "From Ordinary to Extra-Ordinary" workshop. A group of 13 photographers including myself were totally immerse in 2.5 days of intense learning from the great master. Not only did we learn what are the basic ingredients in making a great portrait, we also got to experience the energy that Louis brings into every shoot that he does. It was really refreshing to see a person with so much passion for the work he does and how it brings out your best work. I'm really inspired by such professionalism and spirit and it makes me stand in awe of the work and aspire to achieve that level of perfection.

The beautiful lady above is Samantha. She was one of the models that join us for the days shooting. We call her the lady with multiple faces. She was just fantastic in giving us all the different expressions that we asked for during the shoot. You're Beautiful Samantha!

One of the key lessons that I picked up in the workshop is to get everything right In Camera. That means getting the image as perfect as it could be when you shoot it with the camera without any touch-ups needed. This is a great mindset as it really trains you to get great images everytime and then with some post-processing touch-ups makes the image just fantastic.

Here are my favourites from the workshop straight from the camera! I'll be posting some touch up photos soon.

Reynaldo the cool cat!

Vicky and Max. What a lovely couple they are!

Samantha being Hot!!

The beautiful Michele from Louis Pang Studio.

Congratulations to Sim and Ice, who just got registered that day! Imagine 13 photographers shooting portraits of them.

HooiChai & Danny

2008-03-24T23:50:00.000+08:00

I've just closed one chapter of my life and am starting a new chapter with my wife HooiChai! We've just finished the wedding ceremony and dinners in both KL and Penang over the last two weekends, and boy it more tiring than being the photographer for the whole day! It is a truly memorable event that is forever in grained in my mind and I look forward to the day when I share the images taken during that day with my children and let them know the joy I felt when I took their mother into my arms :)

Weddings are never possible with out the help from a whole army of warm and tireless relatives and friends. First and foremost I need to thanks both our parents for giving us each other and also for spending so much time preparing for the wedding. HooiChai's 2nd sister, HooiYah, for spending countless hours preparing the door gifts during the wedding dinner (Yah, we love them!). HooiChai's other sisters, HooiBing and HooiChuan, were great generals during the wedding dinners where they were doing such a great job directing everyone to the tables. My younger brother Jerry also did good helping out with the direction and coordination of the slideshows. We had 2 great dance performances by a group of friends that had been practicing since Xmas last year! Thanks Celeste, Elaine, Fiona, SuaLin and BeeMei! You guys rock!! Finally, I need to thank my elder bro Gary and also my cousin Lenny who did a great job under pressure, photographing the entire event (Also thanks to Ngan Teng for being the 'portable lightstand' for my bro!). I'm really looking forward to wading through the 2k+ photos that they took for me. It's going to take a while!

Here are some of my favourites of the engagement photos that we took at Fraser's Hill. Stay tune for the wedding shots! Special thanks to Celeste and Clement for helping us out during the engagement shoot. Celeste & Clement, we couldn't do it without you guys!

Click to download HooiChai & Danny's FULL slideshow

Wen Lih & Choo Ta - 2nd December 2007

2008-03-18T23:30:00.000+08:00

ChooTa is a friend that I've known since lower secondary school. He's one of those guys that you just love to have around as he's always jovial, smiling and ready with a cheeky joke. I'm glad that he's able to find WenLih who is so much like him! Funny and always with that same cheeky humour :)

ChooTa & WenLih,
I wish you both all the best and looking forward to photography your first born!

Here are my favourites.
Click Here to download ChooTa & WenLih's slideshow

See Nee + See Jin, Hotel Nikko, Kuala Lumpur

2007-12-26T08:49:00.000+08:00

I had a really great time photographying See Nee & See Jin's wedding. They had friends that came in from all around including back from Australia and Singapore to celebrate this joyous occasion with them. I was really enthused with all the emotion and energy going on.
Less words and more photos, here are some of my favourites!

Click here to download See Nee & See Jin's slideshow

Yok Mian + Woon Sang at Kota Tinggi, Johor

2007-12-26T07:26:00.000+08:00

This is the first time I've travelled so far to shoot a friend's wedding ceremony and boy was it a great experience. Yok Mian and Woon Sang come from the small town of Kota Tinggi, Johor, which was one of the towns that was badly hit by floods this year. Water level rose to more than 10 feet! Shops and home were literally submerge in flood waters. Life has since return to relative normalcy at Kota Tinggi and the couple and I had a great time shooting a few outdoor portraits. The wedding was made even more memorable with friends flying in from other parts of Malaysia to celebrate the occassion with them.

Here are my favourites from the day!

Click here to download Yok Mian & Woon Sang's slideshow

Belated Merdeka Day Photos

2007-10-16T23:15:00.000+08:00

Some belated Merdeka Day photos on an outing with really cool friends. Started out by hanging out and chatting the afternoon away at San Fransisco Coffee in Midvalley Megamall. Catching up with old times and also gossips! Later on after some shopping... hey... it's ladies' favourite sport, we headed out to Putrajaya to catch some fireworks from the Malaysia International Fireworks Competition'07. No particular team was showing off that day but nonetheless our goverment saw it fit to have fireworks anyway.. being Merdeka Day and all. However as my fireworks photos came out crappy non will be showcase :P

Got shot myself while shooting!

Yummy!

Hmm... where do I get more??

Hooi Chai & Danny's Registration Day

2007-09-12T00:20:00.001+08:00

Yep, you read it right... your's truly has sign the paper... it's official. Man... now I'm stuck!! Hahaha... but seriously she has been one of the greatest things that has happen in my life and I'm really thankful :)
Alright, less talk and more photos. My favs for the day.
Note that photos without me in them are taken by myself and those with me are from my big bro. Thanks Bro!

Benny & Sara Wedding Dinner 21st July 2007

2007-08-18T13:19:00.000+08:00

Last July Benny and Sara engaged me to shoot their wedding dinner that was held in Maple Gold Recreation Centre, Penang. It was a really engaging shoot where the couple has such a close relationship with their friends and family. Lots of hugging and hand shaking to go around.

Here are some of my favourite images for that day. As always the slideshow is available on the right toolbar.

Click to download Benny & Sara's Slideshow

Mun Lin & Teong Guan's Wedding 07072007!

2007-07-15T05:06:00.001+08:00

I had the great pleasure and honour to immortalize Mun Lin & TG's wedding day. TG which is from Bagan Serai, Perak, arrived bright and early in Penang to 'collect' the bride. His fellow 'brothers' had to go through a whole lot of wasabi to get him through the door... Man... those guys can really down and hold them!!
It was really fun doing this shoot as everyone is sooo friendly and jovial! You can see it in the photos!
The dinner was held in Bagan Serai. And luncheon the next day was at E&O Hotel, Penang. The luncheon was unique as Mun Lin's sister Mun See was also celebrating her marriage which was solemnized in the US.

Here are some of my favourites,

Click to download MunLin & TG's Slideshow

The 3 sisters.

Bang!

The 2nd bride!

Sabah - Malaysia, The Land Below The Wind...

2007-07-10T00:46:00.000+08:00

The Tip Of Borneo at Kudat

Shadow of Mount Kinabalu at the Peak!!

Peak of Mount Kinabalu.

Sunrise at Mount Kinabalu