hi guys, pls excuse me for out-of-topic for a while...

we're back from the melaka shooting yesterday with exhousted body, sun-burnt skin, new friends made, new skills leant, memory cards filled-up, and the most importantly - had lots of fun

those who turned up are : maxh3h3, brian3455, jenson_hiew, warez & shadowshine.

i'd like to thanks everyone for your contribution :
- maxhehe & gf : you guys are such a couple of good actors, we had no problem directing you to act on whatever pose/expression that we wanted. we always get surprises when you guys came out with your own poses.
- ivy, the makeup artist : thanks for transforming tracey (max's gf) into gorgeous!
- jenson_hiew : thanks for your companion, the drive thru & fro melaka would be boring without you in the car, hehee...
- warez : eventhough you're relatively new to photography, but i was surprised to see that you have planty of ideas during directing the models. good job and hope to have shooting with you again!
- shadowshine : thanks for joining us, and giving us idea on the several shooting locations in melaka.

in summary, we learnt that it's not easy to do CLS especially when the light source is limited. our shooting on saturday night in stadthuys was very challenging even with wide aperture lenses (maxh3h3's 50mm f/1.4) & 2 flashes. shadowshine with his 35mm f1.8 (lit with built-in flash with difuser) turned out to have the most well-exposed pics. anyhow, the rest of us have a few nice shots too because the night scenery there was very nice & romantic. now, we really appreciate joe mcnally's skill/works on how he light up his model with CLS.  *salute*

melaka is a great place to have photo shooting, we just had not enough time to cover all the places that we planned - the st xavier church, st john ruined church, the a'farmosa, etc. the shooting lasted till almost 12am midnight on the 1st day because everyone had fun twisting the setting in cameras & the flashes. time flies when we have fun

as for the next day, we started shooting at about 9am, since it's a super hot day, we utilised the shades under the historical houses at the jonker walk. at about 11am when we wrap-up the session, we only covered 1/2 the street only, so i believe on a good weather day, we can have a nice full day shooting in jonker walk alone. we noticed a nice river side spot (next to jonker walk) which is nice for shooting too, but we're just had no time for it

during the 2nd day shooting, we were lucky to have a historical house owner to invite us to go into his house for shooting. fyi, the houses may look small from the outside, but in fact it's very huge because it's very long (easily 250 ft long). the owner was very kind to show us all his antique furnitures (a few of them cost >RM100k!) maxh3h3 was very lucky to be able to sit on them for shooting too, hehee... we later found out that the house owner is one of the richest man in melaka then another art gallery owner also very kind to borrow us his antique bicycle for shooting, then he proudly showed us all his masterpieces, we also took this opputunity to shoot a few shots inside his artistic workplace.

we'll leave it to maxh3h3 to post up his PPed pic here in lyn, i believe he is now having headache choosing the photos coz he has a thousand over photos (from our cameras) to choose from, haha! i'll post up the group photo by tonight.

now we have the next shooting plan in mind, and will publish the details when the date & location have been finalised by the models - maxh3h3 & gf (yes, same models again, but totally different style this time). hehee...

stayed tuned for updates!

p/s : noobie1, pls post this info in the 1st page (below the maxh3h3's shooting session details) so that ppl can refer when they plan their shooting in melaka in future. thanks!