Meeting with wedding photography giants

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

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

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

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

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!