Celebrating Jeremy & Kelly ~ Actual Day Wedding

Its always a joyous occasion when you get to attend the wedding of a close friend. I have known Jeremy and Kelly individually for more than 5 years. Kelly was when she was joining my cell group in Church and I was her care group leader tasked to call her as a new comer. Its been a good 6 years since that day in 2009 and Kelly became a core member of the care group helping make an already closely knit architecture cg even closer. I got to know Jeremy in my early days in Genrev cg. I remember fondly when we got together with some friends and had an impromptu photoshoot at chinatown at midnight. It was a crazy time and friendships formed from those days certainly lasted. Even though I have been friends with the couple for this many years, when they approached me one day to say that they wanted me to photograph their wedding I felt so privileged and excited. As a photographer, I get to be an observer and documentarian on a couple's happiest day. For Jeremy and Kelly it was certainly a happy day as you can see from the many smiles and embraces captured in the photographs to follow. It was also a very memorable for me when Kelly thanked me during her speech for being her care group leader. Often times, as a photographer we are flies on the wall and our presence is seldom acknowledged during the course of the day.

Anyway without further ado, please enjoy the images from the Wedding Day of Jeremy & Kelly. 

Photographer: Chris Chang

Videographer: Tanya Lai (Blue Sheep Productions)

Venue: Keppel Club

What's in my camera bag & a "painful" experience

Hi Everyone, just dropping in a post before I get busy with upcoming wedding shoots for the month of May. Its been a busy first month here starting the month with a 2 week long shoot for the SAF followed by various event shoots and meetings with wedding couples. Today I thought I'd talk about the equipment which I use during my wedding shoots. 

Whats in my Camera Bag:

• Canon 5Dmk3
• Canon 6D
• 24mm F1.4
• 35mm F1.4
• 50mm F1.2
• 85mm F1.8
• 100mm F2.8 Macro
• 135mm F2
• Phottix Mitros Speedlight
• Video light Panel
• Glass Prisms
• Black Rapids Double R Strap

As you can see, I bring a good bit of equipment to every wedding and that's because I have chosen use Prime Lenses instead of zoom lenses for my work. Prime lenses are fixed focal length lenses which do not zoom. The advantages of these lenses are the ability to capture images better in low light situation. They are also more capable at producing those dreamy out of focus background shots which work well with my wedding photography style. For most of the day I have the 24mm and 50mm on my 2 cameras and are occasionally interchanged with 35 & 85. The 100mm Macro is used for detail shots  and the 135mm F2 often comes in handy during portrait sessions or when I like to be a little further away from my couple.  

Switching gears a bit, I just had a visit to the chinese chiropractor's clinic aka Sinseh this morning. Had a bout of coughing recently which caused me to strain some muscle in my chest and back which caused me to be in pain when i turn over in bed. Been a while since I received a massage from a sinseh and I must say its one of the most painful experiences I had in recent memory. As I have a wedding this weekend, I thought I'd get myself fixed up before I make it worse. 

Thats all for now folks and will be blogging about the wedding this Saturday really soon!

Shalom!

Chris

First of many posts!

Hi Everyone, my name is Chris and this is my first official blog post on the revamped Chris Chang Photography Blog. Thought I begin with a big thank you for dropping by my blog. For this blog, I will share with you about my passion for photography from the perspective of a full time working photographer. We all love stories so here's mine. 

I picked up photography back in 2008 when was studying communications and new media in NUS. There was a course in photography and as there was no exams for that module I decided to take it up with my friends thinking that it would be easy. I borrowed my dad's prosumer camera, at that time a Panasonic FZ-1000. From that moment onwards I was hooked and soon pestered my dad to get a "professional" dslr for me. I remember heading to John 3:16 and being handed a Canon 1000D. From the first time I snapped the shutter, it was like magic. The hairs on my hairs arm stood on end and from then began my passion and love for the art of photography. 

Fast forward 7 years and many photos later, I have been working at a large MNC doing digital advertising sales for the past 6 years. It was a fantastic job where I learnt many things about advertising, sales and digital marketing. It brought me to countries like, London, Japan, Bangalore, KL, Sabah, Taiwan & Bangkok. Not least of all was that it provided me with a good and comfortable salary where I could comfortably support my family. During my stay at my job, I got married and had a beautiful daughter (currently 17 months old). Back in 2012, I was invited by my wife's close friend to be a secondary photographer for her wedding. I excitedly agreed wanting to experience wedding photography for myself. I have seen many nice wedding photography images online and for some reason they resonated with me more than any other genre of photography. During the wedding, I was completely immersed in the process, 10-14 hours of pure joy and enjoyment. By the end of the day, I was completely knackered, sweat dripping down my brows and aching from almost every conceivable place. But, I couldn't get enough of it. I guess that was when I decided that I would like to explore wedding photography further. Fast forward, 2 years later and many freelance weddings and pre wedding sessions. As I sat at my desk daily, there grew in me a desire to chase down my passion full time. It was a struggle as to go full time in photography would be to give up a comfortable job with a good salary for the saturated and unpredictable market of wedding photography. I discussed this many time with my wife and prayed about it on many occasions. It was not till March of 2015 where I decided to take the leap. At the time there were some major changes in my company which made me decide that it was finally time to venture out. 

At the time of writing, it been almost exactly a month I have been a full time photographer and I must thank God that I have been very blessed thus far. This blog shall be a regular update on the journey of someone who has taken a chance to chase after his passion =) It will also be a place where I share stories about the awesome weddings which I am going to document this year and perhaps other things as well. Thanks for dropping by and do leave a comment to say hi!

Blessings, 

Chris Chang