We just had a blast from 2 Hong Kong trips. I went for the 1st round to shoot Peggy’s engagement with Alecs. Faiz Kadir(silverklover) & one of my best friend Cedric Chan was also there to shoot this memorable event.Yes, Peggy is from Hong Kong and Alecs from Sri Petaling,KL but they’ve been living in London for quite sometime. They hired us to produce video documentary of their engagement in HK, gate crashing,tea ceremony,dinner in KL, Banquet in HK and also an outdoor photo session in Hong Kong. Let’s save the Video documentary for another post,so we’ll talk more about the photos for this post. Imagine Hong Kong…but at 1130pm/2330, no one was on the street, shop closed but the tram still running though until 1200pm. What a unique experience for us! We started shooting in front of the famous Standard Chartered building and walk all the way to a hill with a very long outdoor covered escalator. Have fun looking at the photos!

Started shooting at this building.

Then we move on to a tram stand where we thought including the tram might show a lil bit of Hong Kong elements.A beautiful capture & timing by Faiz!

Then while we were walking i stopped the couple to have a few shots at this very nice downlight with Hong Kong street as the background. I was really lucky to capture & include the tram too!

From Faiz’s angle, what a nice lighting & reflection to add some spice to the scene!

We were actually thinking to include the building as the main feature but then it didn’t turn out good so i thought maybe i could include the Hong Kong taxi pass by and hopefully it might make a good capture.

Peggy’s mom brought us to this very nice looking stairs. Looks like a cobble stone stairs, the area surrounded by bars & pubs made a good night scene.

Just a few steps down the stairs, we found a street full of neon lights.nice bling bling background!

and another shot of them on that street.

And the last spot was very special! It is a covered outdoor escalator stretching all the way uphill. You’ll be amazed how long this escalator is, we were told that the middle group citizen lives on the hill and they will need to take the stairs to go down town Hong Kong for work. Imagine how tiring it is going back up the hill everyday??? So the government built this escalator to make life easier.cool!!!

and lastly my favourite shot of all!

well there’s a lot more Hong Kong contents, photos & videos! so stay tune to our blog!

zaidan zainuddin
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Oh my god!!! so much happening…so many weddings in december…countless blog updates! sorry for the slow update guys, end of the year has been hectic for us. Sham & FIza was one of the December’s couple.

The first time Fiza contacted us to inquire about our package, she just emailed us without any call. Later on her fiance’ called and arrange for a meet up. what a surprise when we found out Sham was actually our lecturer during our 2nd year architectural studies in UIA! That’s like 4-5 years i have not seen him. He basically sweep all of Shutterspeak’s shooters in December! He assigned us to shoot photo & video for his engagement,nikah & 2 receptions.
I’ve followed their nikah & reception’s dress fitting to put in some lite storyline into the highlights, also including the engagement event. Then i had an idea why not give them 5 minutes alone with my camera and just say whatever they want, both of them got no idea what they said until the reception! The earlier part of the highlights was edited a day before and the nikah part was edited on the same day.

Hold on tight for the reception photos coming in soon…

zaidan zainuddin
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Shutterspeak Studio

It was a short notice from Nicole, all the way from Perth, they wanted us to shoot their post-wedding as they would need the video highlights to be displayed during Nicole’s Reception here in Malaysia. We were doing the schedule arrangement really fast before the month of December comes in and so we decided to fit in the shoot in November!what ever it takes! We had one full day shoot out in a few spots around Perth City, UWA and Fremantle Bay area. On the next day we went to Sandalford winery, what a gorgeous place to shoot…words can’t describe…

Finally enjoy the video!

Stay tune for the 2nd couple in Perth in Next Entry

Love,
archiprez & zaidan
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2010 SpeakAboutUs Contest!

Yep! You heard it! After 4 years in the industry, this is our first givaways to our valuable potential customers, ex-customers, families, friends and fellow followers.

What you need to do?

Simple. Visit our official websites, blog and flickr galleries, Blog anything about us, and creatively tell people how much you love our work and how you want us to shoot your family portraiture, or your fabulous wedding reception, or you dream pre-wedding locations.Feel free to use any of our images or video works to further describe about our work in your blog. The contest open to anybody throughout the world!

Categories

You can blog or facebook us on a few categories, and when you have completed the blog post, emailed us the link to archiprez@gmail.com

• Malay Wedding
• Chinese Wedding
• English / AU Weddings
• Portraiture / Graduation / Kids
• Pre-Wedding / Post Wedding
• Our Education Section
• Our Video works

Criteria

We will look into the creativity and originality of the entry, how well you know us from our humble beginnings till where we are right now. The most creative entry/entries that brought to our site the most highest hits will bag the 1st prize.

The Blog Entry / Entries

There will be no Limits on the Blog Entry/post for each person/blog.

Timeframe

The contest will run from 1st January to 31st May 2010.

The Winner

Winning Blog Entry/Entries will be announce through our blog on 31st August 2010. The Winning Entrant cannot be transferable.

The Winner

1st Winner

Our E-MOMENT worth RM3300 all for free. A 3 hour session with Archiprez as the photographer and Zeozadan as the videographer

2nd Winner

Our Portraiture Package package worth RM1400, A 3 hour session with Archiprez (photo) or Zeozadan (video)

3rd Winner

A 50% Off for Portraiture Packages ( transferable to anybody )

Hon Mention ( 3 Voucher )

20% discount Vouchers for all shutterspeak portraiture packages

Wish you all good luck for the year 2010

Archiprez Mosis & Zaidan Zainuddin
+60122702120

Hey guys…!

This has been a very long wait for you guys out there.We’ve been planning to this for a very long time, with weddings happening nearly every weekend we just couldn’t find the right date for this. So here it is Shutterspeak’s very first workshop! This workshop will be held at the ever good looking Boutique Hotel Puri Melaka. As some of you have already knew, we’ve shot Ryan & Jade’s wedding at this beautiful location filled with cultural, heritage and architectural elements. The better news is…you guys will also be staying in Hotel Puri. Everything will be held right in the center of the location shoot for 3 days 2 nights.

What’s the best thing about this workshop? We won’t be telling you what is aperture,shutter,ISO,timer,flash,canon,nikon,sony,cf card,sd card,mmc card,thumbdrive,tripod,crumpler,manfrotto,nasi lemak,roti canai & anything that is relevant. We’ll teach the good stuff such as Algebra, mc square, pie, advance scientific calculation, planet & moon rotations, rocket science & how does a rotary engine works….oh wait that’s another workshop…

We’ll have four (4) 5DMII to be used by participant (first come first serve basis) with all the lense that we have. We won’t be shooting anything during the workshop

We will share with you :

# Tips on framing your image, a good composition before you snap!
# Finding the right spot and lighting for location shoot
# Using the surrounding elements to get stunning images
# Using the right lense for specific shoot
# Getting your images right first before you edit them!
# Simple yet powerful editing technique that we’ve been using

So look down here for the details:

Date : Friday 15th January 2010 – Sunday 17th January 2010
Location Shoot : Streets of Melaka & Hotel Puri @ Melaka
Photography Level : Intermediate
For : Wedding & Portrait Photographers
Language : Bahasa Malaysia & English
Seats : Limited to 20 peeps.
Price : WE ARE STICKING WITH RM700 ONLY!
Payment Method : Just pay ONLY RM350 to book your seat and the rest will be on the day of the workshop.
INCLUDED IN THE PACKAGE :

+ Hotel Puri Standard Room with 2 single beds
+ Hotel Puri Breakfast – Saturday & Sunday
+ Hotel Puri Lunch – Saturday
+ Hotel Puri Dinner – Friday & Saturday

The Instructor ;

Mohd Suhaimi Ismail a.k.a Archiprezmosis, 29, Malaysian, has been photographing wedding & potraiture sessions in Kuala Lumpur & Melbourne respectively. He have shot well in excess more than 100 weddings both in Malaysia & Australia with a remarkably similar style that’s creative, natural and relaxed. Archiprez brings a balanced mix between traditional and contemporary photography, with formal training and creative flair to produce amazing unrepeatable artistic images.His wedding photography can be described as a distinctive pictorial style approach with an eye for artistic and breathtakingly beautiful compositions. Archiprez loves shooting with a candid and photojournalistic approach with limited disruptions to the day’s proceedings. You can be sure that with this unique and interpretive approach, that your photos will be set apart from other mainstream wedding photographer.

Mohd Suhaimi Ismail a.k.a Archiprez Mosis
Lead Photographer / Videographer

Zaidan Zainuddin a.k.a zeozadan, 29, Malaysian, with formal background in architecture later turn into his passion, where he later pursue his diploma in Multimedia Design from Asia Prestigious Design College, The One Academy.He also has nearly 3 years of experience working at the biggest paid TV broadcasting company ASTRO as an assistant director, with that he has brought TV broadcast quality to his wedding video works! Zaidan shoots both photo & video whenever required. He continues to generate wonderful images & motions over the years. Our latest video work by him has won the heart of many international clients from overseas.You can be sure that he will capture the best ever moment that will happen in your wedding day.

Zaidan Zainuddin
Lead Videographer / Photographer

The Itenary will be as follow :

FRIDAY
+ Check in Hotel Puri
+ Submission of your current work
+ The Art of  Composition crash course
+ Current work review

SATURDAY
+ Shooting Outdoor -  Melaka’s Street
+ Shooting Indoor – Hotel Puri
+ Shooting Available Light – Hotel Puri
+ Shooting Artifical Light – Hotel Puri
+ Shooting with Architectural elements Hotel Puri & Melaka’s Street
+ Whole day review & discussion to be thrown at us without mercy

SUNDAY
+ Post Processing by Archiprez.
+ Submission of your updated work & review
+ Hotel Puri check out

For more details on payment method & a few other things to ask just email me or YM me @

ZEOZADAN@YAHOO.COM

The date is closing in fast and who knows at the end of the day we might hire you as part of our team!

BOOK YOUR SEAT NOW!

Zaidan Zainuddin
+60122702120

In the Case of Perth Chapter 3 – Fremantle
This is the last chapter of our 1st day of shooting Loi & Nicole in Perth. In this chapter mostly we would like to show how to take advantage shooting at sunset. Not the normal silhouette stuff but what other way you can shoot at sunset.Some of our most favorite shot is in this chapter. We went to 3 locations,the 1st location was Narrows Bridge, 2nd was a small Fish house and lastly Fremantle Maritime museum. Bare with me rambling !

Stay tune for our next chapter :
CHAPTER 4 – KING’S PARK.

Zaidan Zainuddin
+60122702120
blog.shutterspeak.biz

In The Case Of Perth
Chapter 2 : Univertsity of Western Australia aka UWA

Here we are with the new chapter of Perth.In this chapter we shot Loi & Nicole at one of the most photographed location in Perth that is the University of Western Australia aka UWA. We were there around noon so Suhaimi will give some tips & tricks on working under harsh lighting condition,turning bad lighting into usable lighting.
Enjoy the tutorial!

note : all images were directly converted from CR2 to JPG.They were not edited for video viewing purpose.

In The Case Of Perth
Chapter 1 : SWAN BREWERY

So we just got back from Perth and couldn’t wait any longer to share the photos with you guys. We actually wanted to produce one long ITCO but then there were so many footage and it would be a very big HD file.So we have decided to break it down into several chapters. We shot at 6 locations inside & outside Perth : Swan Brewery, UWA, The Bridge, Fremantle Maritime Museum, King’s Park & Sandalford Winery. So far i’m looking at 1 location one chapter but to make it more compact maybe i’ll squeeze in 2 locations in one chapter. We also had 2 couples! WOW! That’s not even including Loi & Nicole’s “Our Story”.
So hold on tight guys this is going to be a long chapter of Perth!

As for now enjoy the 1st chapter.
note : all images were directly converted from CR2 to JPG.They were not edited for video viewing purpose.

Zaidan Zainuddin
+60122702120

As promised, this is the 2nd time we shoot a couple at Petaling Street & the 3rd one was Adib|Fina. We started early in the morning and tried to play with the beautiful morning light and also the architectural surroundings. Iwan & Azila are those kind of couple that you can easily get into talking, talk basically about anything! Iwan…is one funny guy and from my experience interviewing him on his “Our Story”, you can laugh all day listening to him. Azila really knows how to work that pose! At first they were somehow hesitant to shoot at Petaling Street but then when you’re there to produce your own beautiful set of photos…who cares if someone is looking at you.The whole morning they rocked Petaling Street!

Glad to have shot you guys! oh…anyway…they’re wearing our favourite color….WHITE!

We were looking for colors and found one of those closed stalls with nice blue color!

At one of the building has a nice greasy interior with an orange color wall.

We found out it was some kind of a motel for backpackers that would like to stay in the middle of Petaling Street. And saw this!

Then we went for the streets.

Love the architecture around here!

eh…how’d this got here!

Then we went back to the shop area and found this very nice sunlight went thru a small crack on the roof.

The light source is so small it only lits up their face.

There are some pretty nice signage too…This chinese writing somehow makes Azila look more chinese with her already chinese look haha!

Iwan gotta have some good shot too!

Then we found this small open-no-wall barber shop operated by this uncle.He said he was featured in newspaper a few times before.

Thx uncle for letting us shoot at ur place!

As i’ve said before…our photos shot during daylight comes out totally different than the one we shot at night. Eventhough it is the same location.
Start shooting portraiture at night guys!
As much as we enjoy discovering Petaling Street BUT we need a break shooting there…we’ll do it again in 2010 haha!

Zaidan Zainuddin
+60122702120

Me & Suhaimi will be heading to Perth on the 27th November.We’ll be shooting a post wedding of Nicole & Loy and Danny & Serene around the town of Perth, also at a vineyard 30 minutes away from Perth. If you are in Perth & you wanna tag along with us, drop me an email zeozadan@yahoo.com.We’ll be renting a small, cheap & cheerful car with 2 seats available at the back. If time permits, we’ll be going down south to Margaret River on the 30th. Heard it looks awesome down there so we wanna give it a go. If you would also like us to shoot you in Perth just drop me an email.

See you guys in Perth!

Zaidan Zainuddin
+60122702120