Earlier this month, I went to Australia for a very short time. The trip was definitely one of my memorable experience. In 3 straight days, I shot 3 couples in 3 different cities.

Arrived in Sydney in the morning, then I catched the next flight to Melbourne, which 30 minutes away from my arrival in Sydney.

The first city that I visited was Melbourne. The weather in Melbourne wasn’t too friendly for us. Drizzling all day during our session. It was windy and so cold, remembering me coming from Jakarta.

We started the session right away. Short session on the alleys for about 45 minutes. Grabbed some lunch then continue with our session in several places until around 7P.M

I was in Melbourne for only few hours, because I need to catched up a flight to fly back to Sydney that night. I wish I had more time to spend there, explore the city more, and taste some more good food! (thanks Janssen + Emilia, I definitely will come back to that Japanese restaurant)

Big thanks to Janssen and Emilia, who were very cooperative during the session.

This could be the first of the BIG films project in Indonesia.

It’s definitely a complete different game from what we normally shot weddings in Australia. Based on this first experience, we felt Indonesian wedding was much slower pace than what’s in Australia. There were more people involved in every event, it makes harder to shoot the story to flow naturally. It’s definitely quite a challenge to create something heartfelt and yet fun at the same time.

But when we edited them, we still believe the BIG films can definitely bring a new fresh air in Indonesia wedding cinematography. Please check it out! We hope it still does the justice.

Yes, we are available in Jakarta and other cities in Indonesia for wedding commission. I have been busy training them and they are ready to rock Indonesia.

In this project, I personally big thank you to my friend from WIMO, Dimar who helped shooting on the day. Thanks bro. I owe you one!

Vandra’s sister, Thiary, is actually a good friend of mine and was good to have a catch up with her during this wedding. However Dino and Vandra found us through Google.

Besides the beautiful locations, the decorations, and the people, I quite like how they organised the day such as having locations very close to each other and yes it is walking distance only. This definitely eliminated the stress of logistic on the day.

As always I had so much fun working with our own Joan Efrata, please also check his work for Dino and Vandra prewedding.

Enjoy!

I think by now this couple is not a stranger anymore after they have been featured in our prewedding portraiture by Joan and by Wiki Lee.

The highlight of the wedding was definitely Danny’s body. One thing we heard a lot during the reception was “take the shirt off, Danny”. It was a fun day, no doubt.

Also, please do visit the super fun photo booth by our team from Foto Xpress.

Cant wait for their wedding this week.. yayyyy!!!

Last Sunday, my boys (Jamie and Ryan) are turning 6 and 3. Like always, I know we’ll make it up for them. They knew it.

Here are some photo we took 1-2 months ago.

Shot in Kodak Tri-X 400 film

Shot in Kodak Tri X 400 film

Shot in Kodak Tri X 400 film

Shot in Kodak Tri X 400 film

Shot in Fuji PRO 400H (left) & Ilford HP5 film (right)

Shot in Fuji PRO 400H (left) & Ilford HP5 film (right)

Shot in Ilford HP5 film (left) & Fuji PRO 400H (right)

Shot in Ilford HP5 film

Shot in Ilford HP5 film (right)

Shot in Kodak Tri-x 400

Shot in Portra 400 (left) & Ilford HP5 (right)

Shot in Portra 400

We miss them terribly during this long wedding season. It’ll be over soon boys. Papa is coming back home soon!!

2 awards out of 5000++ images submitted from talented wedding photographers around the globe, are a great achievement for him and our team

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Our principle photographer Wiki Lee has won 2 awards too from previous round contests.

Here are the two winning images on Fearless Photographers Round 9 contest and Jeff’s fearless profile

I happened to have my film camera with me. I had a bit leftover of Fuji Pro 400H from the last weekend wedding. There you go! Film rocks!!

Note: the only thing I edit was the black and white on the first photo and the last photo to give more contrast.