Wedding Project: Izwanis & Shahril

Each wedding project has unique challenges. In this Izwanis & Shahril wedding project, my limitations were the space and lighting. The indoor space or room is only about 4 x 7 metres for me to manoeuvre the angle without stepping on any of the guests. The lighting was not that great either in-door or out-door as all the in-door walls were painted orange and the out-door was low in sunlight and most of the time it was raining. This is one of my unique experience in photography.

I have tried my best to use what is available and these are the moments to share with everybody. Thank you to Izwanis and Shahril for their permission for me to upload these photos on my blog.

As the walls were painted orange and the dress colour was either white or orange too, these affected the skin tone, thus, the skin has a tint of orange colour. All photos presented here have to be processed to reduce the contamination of orange.

The second day was rainy, low light, very grey and quite wet. A challenge for out-door shooting as the lens and the camera have to be kept dry most of the time. Lens cleaning cloth, clean cover cloth and plastic bag were handy for this task.

The out-door shooting was around 6 p.m., no more sun light supporting the shooting. In addition to this, the location which is a 'reserve forest' make the location much darker compared to other places such as the beach. Anyway, we managed to capture the interesting and romantic emotion.

Nevertheless, (I think J) the important moments were captured for the bride and groom….. Congratulation to Izwanis and Shahril..... Enjoy the moments….

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