Lanz PhotographyYour Portrait and Wedding Photographer

Alright, I think I know this is an overkill. This setup definitely useful for corporate portraiture or some high end clients.

But, I got to try this tethered shooting on real time location portraiture.  It’s pretty straightforward I would say. All I need is some confidence, Lightroom software, usb cable and lighting gears. Quite slow to review the image realtime using my aging laptop and furthermore, I shoot in RAW formats.

Here is what happen during tethered shooting

Shutter click —–> file generated in memory card—-> file copied to hard disk—->file import to lightroom—>image displayed in Lightroom

Everything was done automatically.

Anyway, behind the scene picture :

This a re-shoot event where some details are required to be seen on the first session. The setup quite costly but easier for the photographer where the client review the image real time and have their picture at the end of the session.

I normally would like to have the picture dead on target during the shooting. The lighting is very simple. I just need a clear and sharp picture aje

Some minor touch up, clearing few debris and dodge the background

pursuing new thing definitely benefit me a lot.

Incoming search terms:

• custom album
• tema warna yang sesuai untuk majlis pernikahan
• gambar candid
• gambar pengantin custom album
• gambar cantik edit
• pengantin tema warna kuning
• jenang pintu
• gambar buku tiga lima
• gambar custom album
• edit photo pengantin

I had the sunset  shots here when he was 3 months old. This beach has a lot to offer on sunset view and it never failed any photographer.  The swimsuit made the photograph look like an action sports photography.

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here’s the behind the scene video that show how much fun we had. Datanglah sekali sini bah..

This photo from pre wedding session of Dyan & Idris. I got this one cool prop from my parents’ treasure room.  During the old days, people use this gasoline lamp to light their way & home while electricity is unavailable. In the 80′s & 90′s we used this to check out the chicken den at night.  Although the electricity is widely available, we found that this approach really practical. I was wondering why I can’t find any supply for kerosene to fuel this apparatus. I can just order them from the grocery and they will pump the gas from the big metal container. Instead looking for the supply in the groceries, I look for it in the hardware store.  Yes, they got it but now it’s turpentine in a small bottle.

This shot is around 4:30 pm and under the shade of tress. I cannot get a complete blackout exposure to start with.  I will try to lit the subject with the lamp and maintain the innocent look from early civilized century.  That’s how I visualized my final image. Below picture is what I got  straight from the camera and the lights is everywhere in this picture.

Kadang-kadang gambar tu memang cun keluar dari kamera. Penataan cahaya yang baik selalunya tak perlu susah-susah nak heavy editing bagi cantik. Di bawah ni adalah salah satu gambar pilihan saya untuk custom album previous client – Ayang.

Saya suka gambar ni sebab nampak macam candid di mana pengantin tak perasan saya sedang mengambil gambar. Expression dia menggambarkan perasan pengantin sebelum ke Majlis pernikahan. Hakikatnya, ia bukanlah gambar candid. Saya rasa kami cuba dalam 8-10 shots untuk mendapatkan gambar nih.

Yang ni gambar original, sedikit gelap dan gambar saya ada dalam cermin tu. :)

Gambar saya dibuang dan sedikit adjustment – exposure, color & skin smoothing. Final image saya crop jenang pintu sebelah kiri tu.  Sekian.

Saja nak share this technique. Selalu terlupa nak pakai especially during the wedding. Kalau selalu practice takkan terlupa :). Lagipun saya nak compile some of the techniques here untuk buat reference di masa akan datang. Nota-nota dan coretan dalam buku tiga lima selalunya hilang bila kita nak carik dia.

Ini gambar pertama. Bagi saya gambar ni ‘fail’ sebab saya nak fokus kat budak tu (my sonlah tu) then, baru tengok benda yang lain. Lazimnya, kita akan tengok tempat yg terang dan cerah dahulu, seperti di dalam gambar ini – toys yg warna kuning dan kawan-kawannya yang lain. (Gambar ni diambil tanpa menggunakan flash, cahaya datang dari matahari yg masuk melalui pintu hadapan.)

Tukar angle pun dapat kekacauan mata yang sama.

Dengan sedikit keajaiban :), cahaya tu kita dapat tutup dan hanya kena pada muka subjek. Kalau tak, mesti kita mau tengok balik toys yang warna kuning itu.

Boleh pakai photoshop atau software lain yang sewaktu dengannya. Tapi saya malas nak pakai & malas nak edit. bayangkan kalau terpaksa photoshop beratus/ribu gambar. Behind the scene..

Sekian, terima kasih. Flagging the light with Bob the Builder.