2012

Haha now that I’m finally off the walls of Bugis and Cityhall mrt station, it feels a little less awkward to post this up. I just wanna say that.. Wow has God been good to me. This could never have happened if it’s not for the grace of God!
By ‘this’, I mean how insane it is that I get to do photography as my career. Those who have been with me for awhile all know that it just could not have beenme. I’m not even so-called “industry material”. I’ve got the wrong personality for the job, I’m both terrible and uninterested in making “important” contacts, I don’t have much techincal knowledge and I’m just too darn lazy sometimes.
But good thing it’s not about me, but how good my God is. In this year of crazy ups and downs, I’ve learnt (and hopefully grown) so much. One thing that has been proven to me over and over again is just how my God is faithful. I stepped blindly into this career path not knowing what was ahead of me and He just showed me that as long as I invited Him into my work, He would be the lamp unto my feet, and light unto my path.
Looking back, I thank God for wonderful people He has brought to cross paths with me, people were willing to put in time and effort to mentor me, spend time to pray with me and just put in extra time and effort for me. Thank you so much. It’s been a tough year and I’m grateful for the support and friendship from all of you.
Well,2012 is ending in a few short hours. How time flies! I’m real excited and expectant of what’s to come in 2013, I know that it’s gonna be such a good year. May it be your best year ahead too! Love! ♥

Camila G

Photographer: Shavonne Wong/ Zhiffy Photography
Makeup Artist: Zann Toh
Model: Camila G (Upfront)

Hmmm. I just felt that my portfolio needed to be updated with some new, clean and simple beauty shots so this happened.

This is the lighting diagram for the look with the natural makeup. A beauty dish is used as the main light with a black flag on the left to cut light.
A softbox is placed at the back for a softer background light.

As for the look with the red lipstick, click here for it’s lighting diagram. Not much was changed here except for the black flag that was taken away and the addition of another softbox in front of her shining upwards. The blurred halo effect was done by adding on some vaseline to the edges of my lens. Kinda cool huh?

MATERNITY: Zheng Jye & Nisha

Absolutely love these two sweet, beautiful. caring and all around amazing people.  It was a great privilege to be a part of their day, capturing this incredibly sweet chapter of their lives. It’s been my blessing knowing you guys! Lots of love. (:

Garçon for Design Scene

Photographer: Shavonne Wong
Stylist: Lenne Chai
Makeup Artist: Zann Toh
Model: Benjammin Cessford

http://www.designscene.net/2012/11/shavonne-wong.html

This set was recently shot at the start of this month as a test shoot for Benjammin from London. It was his very first time trying out as a model and well, I would say things went better than expected! First time Lenne tried her hand at being a stylist too, getting all the necessary clothes and accessories. November is a month of many firsts as it turns out…

Lighting for this shoot was fairly easy. I used modelling light on my strobe instead of flashing it as I wanted to keep the aperture low on this shoot. It was a straight forward one light set-up with a beauty dish in front and two black flags on each side of B. In order to keep the background as dark as possible, B also had to be a distance away from the backdrop so the light does not spill onto it.
For the digital shots, I used a 5dmk2 and alternated between a 85mm1.8 and 50mm1.8 . As for the film shots, I was using a friend’s good old Ricohflex camera. There’s nothing quite like film, really.

Turning 22

Aaaaand… I’ve turned 22.
That was fast. Crazy how time flies.

It’s the first time I’ve not bothered throwing a party for my own birthday so it felt a little strange (And less egoistic, hah). This was probably the least eventful birthday I’ve had in awhile, but I got to celebrate it over the span of a few meals with a bunch of different friends and people who love me so I’m really happy about that. That’s whats most important after all, isn’t it. (:

TODAY’s Interview (Title Not To Be Taken Literally)

Well.
I obviously don’t read the newspaper enough since this was actually from TWO weeks ago..
Any chances anybody might have a hard copy version of this? :D

Old film shots

These shots were taken on a Super Ricohflex camera quite a few months back during the moving house period. Finally got them developed and scanned today. Really capturing some memories here in these photos…

Anyhoo, I really enjoyed the David Foster concert tonight at The Star, dude sure knows how to charm a crowd! The singers he brought along were darn amazing too. Definitely a great night (:
Hmm. It really must be nice to be able to sing. People immediately love you and give you instant awesome points…

The Lining is Silver

Photographer: Shavonne Wong / Zhiffy Photography
Makeup Artist: Zann Toh
Stylist: Ng Yan Ling
Model: Polina (21 Model Management Singapore)
Assistant: Jonah Sun, Paul Yang

This shoot consisted of what I would call a perfect team. Not in the essence where I would say everybody was perfect but just how everything worked so well together. The makeup, styling and model were all gorgeous. In fact, the only thing that went wrong were the Christmas lights, the original set blew just about 10 minutes into the shoot. They weren’t even cheap to start with!  *Rants*
That was pretty frustrating, but thank God for JZ who went out to search for another set.

This is the lighting diagram for the shoot btw. The smoke machine was placed on the right side between the model and the snoot so the smoke would come out behind her and the light from the snoot would shine through it. Two strobes on each side of the model to give her side lighting and the black flags in front for blocking the light from reaching her face. Then the LED Christmas lights were used to help to light up parts of her face and outfit so more details can be seen. So yeah! C’est tout!

 

Updates

And it’s one day away from Halloween  Which really means nothing to me other than the fact that November is arriving. Favorite month of the year for obvious reasons.  (: Hah. Anyway, update time! My career has gone up another level; I am now represented under Framebyframe! And from there, they linked me up with Canon and this was the result.

I don’t think I’ll ever get used to seeing myself in the papers.. or anywhere actually. It still feels really odd. But I was told this would be great publicity and since I’ve never been good social situations, this would likely be able to do a much better job at letting the rest know of my existence than I will with my name cards. So yeah, I’m grateful for this opportunity. Besides, it’s a privilege to be associated with Canon! Other than that, I also recently just did my first commercial shoot with Capitaland. Was a great experience, can’t wait to see the photos in public (:

Maternity: Darrell & Denise

Singaporean style, they met in a queue waiting for church.
After some time spent together getting to know each other, sparks naturally started to fly. These two beautiful people probably could not ignore each other even if they wanted to. So they spent a number of years dating, finally got married last year and now they’re ready to build a family!

Say hello to the awesome incredibly awesome and soon to be parents Darrell & Denise (: