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Thank you for for all the wishes!

benny — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:57:45 +0000

My bad not updating this blog regularly,We’ve been busy with photography & Video shoot. Thank you to all, for the wishes thru facebook, sms, calls and emails. a million thanks for taking sometime for wishing me a happy bday.

life is hard. don’t make it harder, make it simple. Nothing Last Forever, Love & appreciate. It’s been Three years since i started this journey. Being A Full time photographer and some says a professional photographer. Never in my life i ever thought becoming one till today. With age comes wisdom. Well i guess the only thing that go up and never get down is our age. So here i am hitting my 31st birthday on the 14 November 2011. Smarter,experienced,happy,decided,younger , and enjoying what life’s have to offer.

Apart from remembering my birthday, This is the month where i quit my full time job (7 november 2008) To pursue my photography passion and being where i am now… and i never regretted about it.

Thanks for all the love, support to my artwork!

What 2011 has to offer for me?

was featured at New Strait Times paper under sunday spotlight, Singapore Strait Times (sexy pics as a wedding gift) , Twice at The Borneo Post ( Full page story + Article) it was a dream come true to have my work pubslihed on the paper.

expanded Benny Liew Studio Videography service and not to forget, our bridal boutique The Spell Bridal Boutique ( Now 2 years old and growing )

Won my first 6 Bronze awards at the international loupe awards 2011 for people and portrait (2 bronze) and Wedding (4 bronze) category.

p/s What matter in life is Happiness, no amount of money you have in had can bring or buy even an hour happiness. because happiness is in you and can’t be trade off with physical item. Love.Appreciate and never hate. Life is about making decision. & When you decide you will have to commit, when you commit, you’ll have to sacrifice. be firm and stay with what u decided. Never look back.

Portraiture Workshop 2nd Batch – 19 December 2010

benny — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 13:40:22 +0000

Good news for those who wanted to learn more and join my Portraiture Workshop. We finally decided to do another one Workshop on 18 december 2010. However we will only accept 20 participant. By the time i posted this News, a total of 8 seats already reserved and only 12 left for grab.

Download Registration Form Here

Portraiture Workshop – Sold Out…

benny — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 16:30:40 +0000

Guys! thanks for the love and the support you guys had given to me & Benny Liew Studio. Seats Sold out in just 14 days after i launch my workshop through Facebook & My Blog.

I’m sorry that i have to turn down another 18 participants because we have reached the maximum quota for this workshop. We are actually looking at a possible date to do this workshop again. However there’s no confirm date as of now. tentatively it will be around January 2011.

Just stay tune to this blog and my facebook page / personal account. To all who registered for the workshop a total of 25 person! see you guys soon!

Cheers!

Digital Inspiration When Photography Combine with Post Processing

benny — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 23:48:37 +0000

The Early Days

Accidentally bought my DSLR (canon 350D) because i’m darn frustrated with the performance of Nikon Coolpix point and shoot camera 7.1 MP. Oh gosh you really don’t have ideas how bad it was!. The worst among the worst is, when i have to wait 10 seconds to take my second shot! can you imagine that?

Well maybe just my bad luck.

Photography is just a Photography

I started this as a hobby, do not really know what i can do with my DLSR, i started it out by taking free photos of our one of the most grandiest event of the year. The Unduk Ngadau State level competition ( Cultural Beauty Paegant.

I am my own teacher

Yes i learn everything from zero, from my camera setting, posing my subject, creating my signature shots, come up with new ideas and creativity of doing portrait (eg, Huminodun the untold stories)

After few years of learning own my own, from Photographing to post processing, i started to realize that i need to go out and seek the best photographers to learn from. Of course this is one of the hardest thing to do because i need money and this gonna cost me more than i could afford. Imgagine learning from people who really inspired you, who makes you WOW with their works. and named as one of the best in their industry and some given the award as Top 10 wedding photographers in the world?

Creative Photographers

This is me, i don’t call myself as the classic,old & boring photographer as i tend to look photography at the creative side of it. I fall in love with photographers with creative ideas, concept, Where when they created a new shots it is by all means to show their best creativity with messages on it photos. It is not simply clicking the shutter, or just to capture the photos.

i started late, and this is all just a coincidence. So i have to find and discover the best of me in photography, find my best strength in this industry Or else, i will never be here and no one will notice my existence & for sure this blog will stay as my random photography blog.

Digital Inspiration – Photography Combine With post Processing – Creating Art.

Photography alone is boring. I’m glad that i do not have to go through a formal education in Photography. I do not have to spent years waiting my A4 size paper to reach my hand or getting the recognition by others so that you can start your own photography career. Though i understand you’ll you’ll get more knowledge attending formal education… But i guess it is too late for me.

I used to look at others creative works, digital inspiration and beautifully post processed. That time, i always ask myself, how come these Pro Photographers have so darn nice,vivid images, sharp,bright, beautiful, & sometimes out of my imagination. Not knowing what behind their great photos… i keep on searching and do my homework, i guess that reading and homework thingy does bring me somewhere.

To make it short, Photography + Post Processing create art. But hey, you have to start it with good photo & remember this, You don’t post process your images because you are capable of doing it… But you do it because that particular image are going to look even better & wonderful with a lil touch up or post process done to it.

P/s Think positive, Be Positive, you’ll surely be at where you want to be. Life’s hard, make it simple. don’t make it harder

Updated: Photo Slide Show & Facebook Like,Comments,Suggest

benny — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 16:57:27 +0000

Just to share a few updates on this blog.

Photo Slide Show

Now Photo slide show will be updated once every two days. We will slowly add more photos in the slideshow. Photos will be from every weddings that i ever photograph & consist of Wedding Details, Preparation, Moments, Portrait & Pre-Wedding Works.

We are actually considering to add Music to the slide Show However this will slow down page loading (Specially my landing page) I am not so sure if this is a good Idea or move. Do share your idea about adding music to the slide show.

Facebook Integration

From now on you’ll see that WordPress Comment box already replaced by Facebook comment, This is to create more userfriendly & better browsing experience to this blog.

Now you can simply click Like & leave comment to any post without the need to give email or id as long as you have a valid facebook account. I believe this will give everyone a better browsing experience.

Do share your love!

Short Updates

benny — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:39:36 +0000

My internet connection totally down. my Phone has no dial tone. when i call my house number, to my surprise the lady told me ” Nombor yang anda dail tiada dalam perkhidmatan” .

Anyway never mind called TM helpline and hopefully they’ll fix it asap. last Saturday i was at Shang Ri La’s Rasa Ria Resort for a wedding shoot for a couple from France, (Olivier & Nelly) well i had fun, wonderful and great moments on their wedding day. lots of wonderful things happened on that day alone. The beautiful sunset, the amazing rainbow… totally wonderful.

I hope my phone will be fixed soon. so that i can share my photos with you guys.

Olivier & Nelly Wedding at Shang Ri La’ Rasa Ria Resort

The Love That Keeps me going

benny — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 18:38:40 +0000

Finally, Bennyliew.com photography is now 2 years Old. Congratulation to myself and my blog.

Ever wondered how did I get started? Well if you do, please go here and read my details. After two years, I would like to say thank you to all Wedding Couples who had give me the opportunity to be their wedding photographer. Without you guys and Without your loves I won’t go this far.

and to all my readers, My facebook friends (a total of: 3,370) thanks for all the loves and support for my work.

In case you are new here or you missed or didn’t realize about how many loves I received for the past two years? Here I would like to give special thanks for all the people who appreciated and very thoughtful to give me loves and kind words.

Love Love Love Love Love Love Love Love Love LoveLove Love Love Love Love Love Love Love

Hi Benny… Thanks for the updates… my name is Flavian from Tambunan, Sabah.. still studying in USM, Penang… am taking education and minoring in multimedia… but crazily in love with photography + dig. image editing…..

Anyway, I just want to tell you that your shots were all fantastic and authentic…

wish I could get you and your team to shot my pre-wedding and wedding in the future… even though I’m still in early stage of relationship but to be able to witness all your pics makes me want to “kahwin cpt-cpt” LOL!

Okay bro… I wish you all the best… Keep up the Great work!!!

Flavian

Benny, you’ve done a wonderful and unforgetable memories which I may shall not forgotten. Your have done your part tremendously and shows the fullest of your creativity showing us how great it is. It was a brilliant ideas for me and my wife to invite such talented photographer and wish all the best to you. Thanks again for showing our wedding pictures in your lovely website. Last but not least me and my lovely wife wish you all the best and God bless you

Martin & Cellysia

My whole french family and my family lovesssss all the pictures bah! thank you very much benny

Priscilla & Raymond Ewot – France -KK
I just like ur job from the beginning i found u and it getting more creative day by day because i always follow u. And choosing u is the perfect choice. And i just like anything and whatever u ask us to do(even it is something weird..hahaha) because i know it turn out something nice and good. And believe, those experience makes me not to be anything in modelling..Hahaha… but it was something that i will never forget for the rest of my life. Thanx again Benny and the team Rithzal and Ah Zi

Joseh&Clare – Kota Kinabalu
Thank you very much Benny for making my photo very special and unique. you are a very talented guy with lot of creative ideas that i never expected. i also want to thanks everyone for helping that day to make this photo shoot successful and meaningful for me and my future wife.i like to thank also to everybody for their comments on the photos.

Daniel & Olivia – Kota Kinabalu
“Thank you ben .. you have done a great job! No words can describe how happy we are with your job on our wedding day! Our italian design wedding cake is really beautiful,wedding ring, flowers, arch, pianist, chelo and everything.. perfect and meet our expectation .. Keep up your good work k!”

Stanley & Hazlina – Kota Kinabalu

Wow…I never expected it turn out to be like this…It was tiring but working with u and bryan were really fun (full of laugh and jokes!…including the cheeky waves in dream land). I always thought my eyelashes were too long or my veil “Senget” one side or my make-up was not right bla…bla…but you tell it all..everything was perfect!… I love them!…We ended up “Mandi” in the beautiful beach of Dream Land and covered with sands all the way back to the Hotel!….:).

Jerry&Shelly – Bali indonesia pre-wedding

OMG!!! Love Love Love The Pics!!! It Brings Back Such Sweet Memories! Thanks, Benny for capturing the Moments for Us… Now We Can Sit Back and Finally Take In all That Happened!

Magdalene & Timothy – Kota Kinabalu

I really wish i can write in all the loves i recieved from all my friends in facebook too, i believe it will be a very long post if i did…but here i will just share you guys the screen shots of the loves from my facebook! guys thank you very much for all the words!

Once Again a million thanks to all who being very thoughtful and for all the LOVES! thank you very Much! god bless. Sorry that i couldn’t paste all the loves i received from my facebook guys, but please please bear in mind it is very meaningful to me.

My Facebook & Twitter Account – Join me Now!

benny — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:16:32 +0000

Well if this is the first time, i mean reading about facebook and Twitter, i am pretty sure that you are not into internet thingy am i right ? Or perhaps you are not into social Networking business ? Well well.. this is not something new to me but hey, the internet has changed! we are now in Web 2.0 era, and social networking sites are among the top story in the world so you can’t miss this!.

time to invite you guys to join me in my facebook , you can be my friend by clicking this link or join my photography group in facebook and be the first one to get my latest updates and news, well you could win a photography session from me, you could get a super cheap discount on my photography packages or maybe you can even get the updates about me cooking maggie goreng? or maybe what i am up to nowadays .

Hahah that sounds cool and freak lols kidding, well i’m not going to tell you guys what am cooking or telling you guys my personal business ahahah!

So for those who think they are cute or pretty or handsome, you can tweet tweet with me too , here how you can join me in twitter.com click here and follow me !

hey wait, need to restart my pc for now ! thanks for visiting!

Sabah SuperModel – fashion and Hair Show Photos – Random

benny — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:54:16 +0000

well this is nothing to with Sabah manhunk and the supermodel photos ya… because i will only be posting the fashion show photos… and the hair show… i find it…it something different…and kinda unique…been attending many events but this one….one of a kind…

i do not know where are some of the model came from…but i have to say they have a very good face experssion…perhaps…those who interested in doing modelling…you can have a look at their face expression. stop wondering.. let me just share all the lovely shots taken during the event.

First…let me welcome you with miss amber chia… our lovely international model and thank you for looking at me… or to be exact my…camera u are very the super lovely!

consider that women on stage is you, well this is the most harderst part of being a model… you will have to put your body in this kind of position how long can you stand? unless you are a kunfu master or maybe someone who involved very much in martial arts..you will be able to stand like 3 hours or else….you’ll fall keke..

but i love her body position…the curve and everything are just perfect well done girl! and that guy is ALAN, the owner of ALAN salon..correct me if am wrong.

Well, look at this women expression…? well normally if you are doing modelling..hardly they ask you smile unless you are doing catalog modeling or photoshoot then you really need to practice how to laugh and smile.

Another great combination and pose, expression all are well blend. great! and wonderful

i honestly think her face a lil bit chubby and yet, she still managed to show her best expression well done girl!

Again pay attention on her face…”the expression”

Well this is no longer hair model..but this one is a fashion model…and i think it is unique.

enough hope you guys enjoyed viewing the photos… and for the people who interested in doing modelling…hope you guys learned something from the photos…

What Type Of Camera I’m Using? – Which Brand ? = Canon,Canon,Canon :P

benny — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:51:43 +0000

People often email me and asked me this question…and I don’t really get to reply them one in one due to my busy schedules. I know it’s frustrating not to have your question answered…But i am truly sorry…and appologize for that…

for your information, I am currently Using A Canon DSLR camera, previously when i first started my Photography hobby..I am uing Canon rebel XT (EOS 350D). after almost a year using it, i decided to upgrade my camera to the famous Canon 40D DSLR….(Awesome Camera!) and that camera are no Longer with me, I sold it to mandy, and the same goes to EOS350D camera i sold it off to my very very bust buddy Frenday.Thou he still lend me the camera..as my second camera during my wedding shooting or portrait session (Well you never knew when your camera will break down, and you won’t be able to do anything with it….so taking a lil extra caution is much more better)

how did i end up buying the New Handsome Canon 50D DSLR? well it was a very hard decisions actually…but…after a very short period of thinking whether i should buy the camera or not… i think i decided to buy the camera less than 1 hour lols! funny but it did burnt my pocket..but it’s working perfectly and wonderful!… so how did i end up buy my Canon 50D dslr? hehehe (Answer: secret )

Anyway..hope this answer your question guys! thank you for visiting!