Showing posts with label Portraits. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Portraits. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Sydney, Portrait - Biennale Festival at Cuckatoo Island

Went to Cuckatoo Island for the 16th Sydney Biennale Festival. Lots of interesting art installations making full use of the huge, old industrial buildings scattered throughout the island. Definitely my kind of location! This was my favourite shot of the day. 







Thursday, March 10, 2011

Winner of the MyNikonLife "Fashion Full Stop" Assignment











Two nights ago I was surfing the net, I suddenly just decided to visit the MyNikonLife website. With barely an hour to go before the closing time of the Loreal Melbourne Fashion Festival-sponsored assignment, I quickly scrambled to find the pictures I wanted to enter and write up some short descriptions. The title of the assignment was "Fashion Full Stop", and the brief was "your best fashion or music photography".

I captured these at Alberta Cross' gig at The Corner Hotel. They're awesome.

Few days later, a surprise email from Nikon - and this batch of pictures from me was one of three other winning entries!

The judges comments:

"Jeremy Kid's classic approach to music portraiture was outstanding. Highly dramatic use of contrast whilst filling each frame full of detail and intrigue."

The prizes?

Media accreditation and backstage passes to the Loreal Melbourne Fashion Festival's opening runway, Fashion Full Stop. As well as a spot in the Nikon School Editorial Fashion Photography course with fashion photographer Christian Blanchard! (The course costs $349!)

Not quite sure what media "accreditation" means, but guess I'll be in the photographers' box capturing the models on the runway. I'm more excited about the backstage access TBH. :P

LMFF is this coming Monday! Need to prepare myself! Excited! (More exclamation marks!!!!)

Sunday, February 20, 2011

Melbourne, Weddings - Pearl & Kelvin's Wedding Day

If it were me, I'd want to look back someday and remember all the little details that I've put into my wedding. All the small touches. Like the flowers we chose. The shoes she wore. Her dress. Because I'm very sure that when it comes to big occasions like weddings, we usually get so worked up, so excited, so adrenalin-pumped, that it all seemed like a blur. 

I'm glad Kelvin asked me to cover Pearl's getting-ready in the morning. I hope they'll both look back at these pictures and remember and relive the little moments of the morning of their wedding day. 

Like Pearl's beautifully sequined dress which was handmade by Kelvin's mom (Alice Chai, design store in Sg. Wang, Kuala Lumpur). I'm very sure a lot of work went into the sequins and beads, and more importantly, the cut of the dress with the amazingly graceful flow of the train. The dress was an exquisite balance of simplicity and embellishment to give a great sense of occasion. A feat, I'm very sure. 

Let's also not forget the moment when Kelvin decided that his car needed a shine. And Pearl laughing as she remarked, "Have you heard of any grooms cleaning their cars on their wedding day?"

Thanks for having me to be a part of your day, Pearl and Kelvin. There's nothing more that I hope for other than that you'll look at these, and smile. 


































Thursday, February 17, 2011

Wednesday, February 16, 2011

Melbourne, Weddings - The Story of Pearl and Kelvin (Pt. 6)

Typical Melbourne laneways. 







 I LOVE the next two shots! A friend who checked out this space recently (doesn't know Kelvin or Pearl) also commented on how pretty Pearl looks in the pictures. Couldn't agree more.