Tone Mapped Photos For Wedding?
By the time I’m writing this, I’m sitting alone at Starbucks Coffee in Pavilion, Bukit Bintang. Enjoying my cup of Javachip Coffee with whipped cream.. Yummy..! I dunno what happen to me for the past 2-3 days.. But one thing that I know, I love to be alone for the time being. Looking at these people walking, passing by this very aisle of Pavvy makes me felt so much refreshing and relax. By the end of this week, I’m gonna take a 3-4 days off to my secret hideout place.. Where else beside my favorite sandy beach? I need a time off.. Seriously..
Kuala Lumpur is such a nice place to live in or to work. But too much of Kuala Lumpur makes me sick. The noise, the people, all those ‘mat rempit’ stuff, the crime and everything.. They’re all just cause me pain in the head.. (now I sound old).. LOL..
Ok guys and girls.. Let’s just go straight to the topic before I can have my holiday soon.
After I’ve posted Gia portfolios in HDR photos, I’ve been asked by a few people on what I think about tone mapped / HDR effects on wedding photography? So here’s my answer.. I’m not a big fan of HDR photography actually. HDR for me, is very useful in landscape or architectures photo and such. But when it come to a wedding photography, I give it 50-50. If requested by the clients, I’d say why not? But please bear in mind, that not all of your wedding clients love HDR effects. Some of them don’t even know what the heck is HDR. (Read until the end of this article, And you’ll know what is HDR). To make a HDR look image, the post-processor / designer (in this case, it’s me) will need lot’s of time and lot’s of coffee! It is a very much time consuming thingy for most of the post-processors / the designers. So to clients, please be very careful if you want to request this kind of image. Because of it’s time consuming ‘nature’, I’m afraid that your wedding album will be delivered late.. LOL.. Unless the ‘makers’ are all big names and well known photographers such as Syahrin Aziz and such, then you can rely on them!
Wedding is always a ‘one-day-off’ events and you can’t reverse it back. What you saw right in front of your eyes will only happen once (most of the time) and then you can only pray hard for the same incident or moment to happen again. This is why I’ve trained all of my photographers to have eye like an eagle.. LOL.. Normally for wedding photographers, they’ll shoot in Jpeg format. But for me, I’ll shoot the make up sessions and some of the events of wedding in RAW format (the rest is in Jpeg). Why RAW? This is because all of the originality (colors, tone, white balance and such) is still in it ‘uncompressed’ state. And at this stage, you’ll need a RAW file format to turn it into a HDR photo at later post-processing stage. (Jpeg can’t be processed into HDR since it’s already being compressed).
Original HDR photos need at least 3 RAW exposures to make it beautifully rendered. But through 1 RAW file it is also can still be use for HDR conversion (except it wont be regards as ‘original HDR’.. LOL). Now, HDR and tone mapped is the same techniques if you don’t know..
So, with this article I’ve added some of my previous photos that I’ve converted to HDR / Tone Mapped… So tell me what do you think? LOL
Now I can have my holiday..! Yay!
- Farul Azri
If you need to know more about HDR, click here and read about what Wikipedia have to say about it!
Why Men Always Know How To Make Up Their Mistake? – Stephen & Illa Post Wedding (Black’n'White)
In any relationship name it from boyfriends and girlfriends to husband and wife, man’s was always being pointed as the one who’ve always done big mistake and such. Women was always being portrayed as the good ones. But in a 21st century, everything is upside down. Now days, even a woman can be as bad as men and men can be as good as a loyal house wife..
So why did men always know how to make up their mistake..? Our answer is – because they are the most romantic creatures on planet earth. Don’t believe us? Go back and check history – Most of the romantic writers are men. Most of romantic musician are men. Most of poetic poems are written by men.. And so many other things to list down. We’re are not being sexism here.. Hehehe.. Wan Addiba, forgive us.. But this is the fact.. But says who girls are not romantic by them self right..? Haha.. Men and women are always meant to be together..
Guys and girls – Don’t get us wrong on this posting! We are not trying to influence any of you or giving any bad idea.. LOL.. This is just a ‘drama’ posting on Stephen Athaillah R. Shand Abdullah and Naza Illa Mohd Nasir post wedding photo shoot we’ve done over last weekend. This photoshoot was done by Farul Azri and Abu Bakar Fahmi or better known as Enche Burn. The idea of story line was originally by Enche Burn.
So we don’t want to waste no more time – Just browse along these pictures and you’ll get the story from it.. Enjoy!!!
Stephen + Illa = Coming Soon!
Says who we only shoot pre wedding photos? We do post wedding as well.. Hahaha.. Wait for the photos soon. Only from the best wedding and portraiture photographers in Malaysia! Only on Click*Syndicate.. The bad boys and black market of photography.. Warghhahahaha..
