http://www.andylim.com/blog Photography articles and latest news on AndyLim Creative Tue, 06 May 2008 02:29:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This was a photo shoot done for NESH, one of Malaysia's leading household brands. Consisting of a good mix of people shots and product shots, these images are used on their website: www.nesh.com.my http://www.andylim.com/blog/health-and-product-photography/ Ever wanted to preserve your beautiful photos into high-quality albums? Here's an online service that lets you do just that. PhotoFun lets you create photo books, photo prints and photo calendars with ease. Just sign up online and upload away. Their photo books are called Zapbooks, which are printed on 4R ... http://www.andylim.com/blog/immortalizing-your-beautiful-photos/ I'm back in Kuala Lumpur after my honeymoon trip to Japan and Krabi, Thailand (yes I'm now married!). Though physically exhausting, it was refreshing for my soul and spirit. These were a few of the places my wife and I went to. Visit www.andylim.com/gallery/Japan for more photos! http://www.andylim.com/blog/back-from-honeymoon/ Michael & Eleena's wedding at Hotel Equatorial, Kuala Lumpur on 8th March 2008. This was Election Day for Malaysia as well! For more weddings, see www.andylimages.com http://www.andylim.com/blog/michael-eleenas-wedding/ Kelvin and Karen's wedding Baba-Nyonya wedding in Melaka on 19th January 2008 For more weddings, see www.andylimages.com http://www.andylim.com/blog/kelvin-karens-wedding/ Lalitha and Suren’s traditional Hindu engagement ceremony on 2nd February 2008 For more weddings, see www.andylimages.com http://www.andylim.com/blog/lalitha-surens-engagement/ My PhotoClass is now known as Simple SLR PhotoClass. Check out the revamped website: www.simpleslr.com and the accompanying forum at www.simpleslr.com/forum The Simple SLR forum is a community of past and current participants of Andy Lim's Simple SLR PhotoClass. Photos can be posted for critiques, photography-related topics can be discussed, and more importantly ... http://www.andylim.com/blog/simple-slr-launched/ Landscape photography relies a lot on good lighting. Let me rephrase that... it relies on great lighting. Great lighting can be found if you know where to look, and when. Understanding the balance of light, or light ratio, between foreground and background areas will put you on the road to ... http://www.andylim.com/blog/light-ratios-for-landscapes/ I had the opportunity to photograph Josiah Ng, Malaysia's top national track cyclist, fresh from his gold medal win in the Korat SEA Games, during FedEx's opening of a new World Service Centre at The Weld, Kuala Lumpur. http://www.andylim.com/blog/josiah-ng-at-fedex/ June & Sami's Wedding at Traders Hotel, Penang 28th December 2007 http://www.andylim.com/blog/june-samis-wedding/ Photography at night can yield beautiful results, if done at the right time. This magic hour is called twilight, and it happens between 7pm to 7.30pm here in Malaysia, but this may vary depending on which part of the world you're in. In some parts of the world, due to ... http://www.andylim.com/blog/twilight-the-magic-hour/ I challenged myself to shoot heavy machinery images for my client, to be used on a website. Here are some of them. http://www.andylim.com/blog/heavy-duty-photography/ I recently captured some lifestyle images for Great Eastern Life Assurance (Malaysia) at The Weld. Here are some of my favourites. http://www.andylim.com/blog/lifestyle-photography-at-the-weld/ Here are some of my recent architectural images, commissioned by Great Eastern Life Assurance (Malaysia) Berhad. http://www.andylim.com/blog/architectural-photography/ I'm starting a series of (hopefully) regular articles to help improve your photography. I'll start with the topic of lighting, which is crucial to photography. Photography is very much about using light. Very often, we take pictures without planning ahead. With digital photography, the temptation is to shoot first, then review ... http://www.andylim.com/blog/learning-to-see-the-light/ I will be conducting my PhotoClass at least once a month from now on. I will also be writing regular articles to help you improve your photography. Look out for them under the Photography Tips section in this blog. Here are the dates for upcoming PhotoClasses: Dec 22nd, 2007 (Sat) Jan 13th, 2008 ... http://www.andylim.com/blog/new-photoclasses/ Chitra & Niall's traditional Hindu wedding on 2nd November 2007 For more weddings, see www.andylimages.com http://www.andylim.com/blog/chitra-nialls-wedding/ 29th September 2007 Yvonne & Gevin's Christian wedding at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Penang. Their banquet at E&O Hotel in Penang had a refreshing sixties theme, hence the psychedelic table setting. For more weddings, see www.andylimages.com http://www.andylim.com/blog/yvonne-gevins-wedding/ If you've been visiting my blog or my wedding photography gallery recently, you'd have noticed that I haven't been updating them for a while. So here's my attempt to keep my blog as current as time constraints allow. This will be my first of a series of short photo ... http://www.andylim.com/blog/ee-lain-leng-hwees-wedding/ I've just switched to a new and faster server, so please bear with me while I iron out the technical issues. During this time, there may be some emails not arriving in my mailbox, so if you don't hear from me in 1 week, please re-send your email. Your patience ... http://www.andylim.com/blog/a-fresh-start/ AndyLim Creative secured several design projects in 2007, confirming a trend that has been steadily growing: clients are now increasingly aware of the importance of carefully thought-out design in websites and identity systems. Here are a few projects worthy of mention: Website, corporate profile and photography for Seaswift Group Corporate identity system ... http://www.andylim.com/blog/design-projects-in-2007/ The RAW format is a digital photographer's friend. If you shoot for commercial purposes (eg. to sell your images to a stock image library) shooting in RAW allows you to squeeze every single drop of quality from your shots. RAW or JPEG? Depending on which format you choose, the image takes a ... http://www.andylim.com/blog/the-raw-advantage/ Histograms are like road maps. You need them in order to see where you're going. Without them, you're just guessing. Ok, I suppose with some experience you can get a pretty accurate guess. But if you're a perfectionist like me, you'd feel way more comfortable if you knew you nailed the ... http://www.andylim.com/blog/perfect-raw-with-histograms/ Ahh...wide angle photography, probably one of the easiest types of photo to take; but also one of the hardest to excel at.Have you ever tried to cram 30 people into a single photograph? You'd try to stack them, have some of them on the floor or even ask some of ... http://www.andylim.com/blog/seriously-wide/ Join the Guinness Pool Challenge at www.guinness.com.my/live/msn and win a trip for 2 to Bali! By the way, an image from my Bali collection was used to illustrate the grand prize. http://www.andylim.com/blog/win-a-trip-for-2-to-bali/ Visualtherapy, a collection of 46 favourite images from my travel and landscape photography collection, is now available for sale. All images in this book are my own, taken from my travels from 2004 to 2006. This is an A3-sized (40x30cm landscape orientation) hardcover coffeetable book. High-quality offset printing (175 line ... http://www.andylim.com/blog/visualtherapy/ The Internet is an inherently interactive platform. Beautiful design alone just isn't going to cut it anymore. To be successful, a website needs to be highly functional, with the end user's interest in mind. Web surfers have the attention span of a fruit fly. Don't make them have to figure ... http://www.andylim.com/blog/elegant-usability/ I'm using this short lull before the storm to write. The storm will begin in June... I've been booked for 6 weddings in June, 4 in July, 2 in each month that follows that, all the way till Dec 2007. I am concurrently working on 9 web development projects ... http://www.andylim.com/blog/genuine-clients/ I made a trip to Cameron Highlands and the Mount Brinchang mossy forest with Junnie over the recent long weekend, with 2 cameras and 5 lenses. Here's what we saw: www.andylim.com/gallery/CameronHighlands We also made a side trip to Pos Brooke, Kelantan to catch a glimpse of the rare Rafflesia flower, ... http://www.andylim.com/blog/photo-getaway/ A garden wedding I photographed was featured on pages 192 and 193 of Bridal Guide (Vol 5, the December issue), a Malaysian magazine about weddings. The wedding that was featured was that of Alex and Grace: www.andylim.com/weddings/Wedding_Alex_Grace You can find this magazine at most Malaysian bookshops. http://www.andylim.com/blog/garden-wedding-featured-in-bridal-guide/ Don't you? Especially if they're adorable, and make your day with just a smile: www.andylim.com/commercial/Portraits It was a pleasant surprise to discover that one of these portrait images was chosen to be used as a visual on page 81 in the June 2007 issue of Reader's Digest. See the accompanying ... http://www.andylim.com/blog/everyone-loves-babies/