Category / Essential Readings
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Your Wedding Photos Belong to Me
Many people have asked me for my take on the recent changes to the Copyright Act with regards to ownership of wedding photos. With this new change, the default ownership of the photos will now belong to the photographer, and not to the wedding couple. What’s my take on this? Well, no difference to me…
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Would you Forfeit my Deposit?
Just a couple of days back, I had a WhatsApp chat with Andros from The Wedding Notebook. We spoke about many things but mostly we wanted to find out how each other is doing. Then, we broach on this touchy topic of deposit forfeiture seeing that so many weddings are either cancelled or postponed due…
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Should I Start Planning for my Wedding? Life after Covid-19
This is really a time where we have so many questions and so little answers. How long will this Covid-19 pandemic last? Will there be another Circuit Breaker? Will (or what if) my wedding falls during Circuit Breaker? Unfortunately, I only have answers to some of these questions, not all. All I know is we’re…
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What if Nothing Comes Out?
Just the other day, a make-up artist that I was working with stared at my film camera in bewilderment and asked me how would I know the photos would turn out ok. As a film photographer, this is a question I get asked a lot. What if nothing comes out? In the absence of a quick preview…
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Film – The Misunderstood Medium
Previously I’ve written an article “Film or Digital?”. I wrote about the differences between Analogue Film and Digital, more importantly how the film medium might just be the thing for you. Since then, I’ve had a number of questions and misconceptions about film. Some assumptions made about film are not quite true. So, in this…
