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The Lumiac featured!
The silver marriage anniversary photos taken in Tokyo got me featured on Butter & Jam 
Visit Butter and Jam at http://butternjam.com/?p=7
p.s thanks Dan.
Update!
This has been a awesome year for Lumiac Productions as everything is really starting to pick up. Alicia Koh has gotten recognition from WPJA and has gotten associateship in The Master Photographers Association UK. I personally have gotten many underserved favours and good fortunes for what had happened in this short six month of year 2010. Lumiac has also shifted out of Bali Lane, our new office are still designing in progress so stay tuned! For appointment details, please call +65 91447833. We have also change our print product crafts to our Master Print Maker for finer superior quality prints for all our funny wedding couples. We hope to provide our clients with the best quality we can find in the industry.
Lumiac Productions have recently come up with a Pre Wedding and Actual Day fusion package, Overseas package will also be available soon. For more information please contact +65 91447833 or email alicia@lumiac.com for more information.
The Master Photographers Association
MPA (Master Photographers Association) is established in 1952, it is the only organisation for full time, qualified and professional photographers in the United Kingdom.
Qualifications of The Master Photographers Association
Licentiate (LMPA)
Indicates the award of qualified member of the Association. Applicants must show competence in their chosen field of photography, show a thorough understanding of camera techniques, lighting and composition and ability to create merchantable quality photography.
Associate (AMPA)
Is awarded upon the submission of photographic work and in recognition that the photographer has shown excellence in technique, lighting and composition. The candidate must show creativity and an understanding in the art of professional photography.
Fellow (FMPA)
Is awarded as the highest qualification within the Association. The award is made for excellence in photographic technique and interpretation. The photographer having exhibited an individual, innovative, artistic and creative style in their submission demonstrating that they are at the leading edge in the art of photography.
More information can be found at www.thempa.com
MPA- Master Photographers Association
MPA- Master Photographers Association is Established in 1952 and with over 2,000 members, the Master Photographers Association is the United Kingdom’s only organisation for full time, qualified and professional photographers. Click on link for more information The Master Photographers Association
Just a couple of days ago Alicia Koh is qualified for AMPA (Associate Master Photographers Association) in Wedding category with unanimous consent by all five judges. Special thanks to Ryan Wong from ‘Vue Photography’ for his constant and selfless guidance and mentorship. This achievement is a combination of efforts from everyone around me.
Photos Panel can be seen here AMPA Photo Panel
Guy Gowan 2 Day Seminar – Singapore
Guy Gowan is the preeminent guru in the world of digital imaging, manipulations and work flow. He has a wealth of experience honed over 25years at the cutting edge of technology in the creative industry around the globe. Guy is valued by all the leading technology providers for his unique vision as an independent consultant, his skill and depth of knowledge embraces the full creative spectrum. As such, his seminars and workshops are always a sellout.
Guy is an accredited Adobe and Apple expert, the creator of a popular series of Photoshop tutorial DVDs which instead of merely selling preset Actions teach the user to create their own Actions and Droplets.
He offers a website-based programme to keep photographers up to date with techniques covering the entire Adobe Creative Suite range of products and more.
Guy’s talks on the MPA exhibition stand at Focus on Imaging 2009 stopped the traffic – the entire aisle space was taken up by an audience which extended well beyond the seating area. He will be unveiling some new learning methods.
He’s also recently received his Fellowship of the MPA for his outstanding tuition over the past three years.
So for those who are interested in retouching or manipulating images with flexibility, consistency, speed and most importantly, quality, this really is a programme not to be missed.
Venue : TBC
Date : 5th & 6th April 2010 (Mon & Tues)
Time : 11am till 6pm
Price : SGD$250 for MPA members, Member referrals, Hasselblad User Group & Profoto User Group & SGD$290 for Non MPA members
For registration please contact: Ryan Wong @ 97660226
For those who are interested in joining as a member of MPA,
Here’s the chance.
Colin Buck, chief executive of MPA.UK Hon FMPA will be joined by our regional Fellows of the MPA, for an initial induction and qualifications session.
All levels of qualifications will be judged on the day; candidates must bring 20 mounted examples of their current professional work, minimum size 10 x 8 inches maximum 20 x 16 inches.
The cost of membership including the Licentiate judging is £145. There is no need to notify MPA of your intention to join and submit for qualification, just turn up with your prints on the day. Members applying for higher qualifications of Associateship or Fellowship must prepare a panel of twenty 20 x 16 inch prints. A fee of $150 is payable.
for more information just log in www.thempa.co.uk
Here’s a short review by Will Zyle who attended Guy Gowan’s awesome seminars.
“Not wanting to sound like a commercial or someone on Guy’s payroll…If you only go to one seminar this year – this is the one! As a photographer you will never look at your digital workflow in the same way again, if you are honest with yourself your workflow world will be turned upside down.
You will be challenged to change the way you look and work with your images – and the results will blow you away!
Guy is not pushing any products from the hardware or software majors therefore, what he presents is not biased by any means.There is so much to learn. It is exciting. Fundamentally I have not changed the way I edit my work since I changed to digital 9 years ago.There is a better and easier way and this is a great step in the right direction.”
Will Zyle CPP, Commercial Photographer
ironwill photography
Interested Participants please RSVP at <a href=”http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=107124839307770&ref=mf“>Link text</a>
WPJA Q4 2009 Competition; Emotion
Someone woke me with a message about WPJA competition this morning. To my surprise, my ‘Crazy Kids’ photo got me a 11th place in my 1st photo competition, the recent Q4 2009 WPJA Emotion category. This kick start a good month of March! ♥ !
Happy new year!!
Dear friends,
I’ll be spending CNY and Valentine’s day with a 50 years old couple shooting and celebrating their 28th anniversary silver marriage in Tokyo. To my clients, please bare with me if I didn’t reply your email from 12th feb till the 19th feb as internet access is limited when I’m overseas. Happy Chinese New Year to all and happy Valentine’s Day in advance!
With Love,
Alicia
Music
I’m very very happy to announce that Lumaic Productions had just updated our website with our very own instrumental music, composed by our very very talented local artist, Alvin Khoo. A vocal track will be released to Lumiac Productions as well in the near future. Meanwhile check it out at our main site. http://lumiac.com
2010
2010 Resolution:
-Take wedding photography to another level as an art form
-Complete GTA 3, Vice City and San Andreas despite my busy schedule
-Spend more time with granny and parents, again, despite my busy schedule
-Revisit the kids in Laos
-Financially aid at least 3 under-privilege kids until they turn 21
and on top of all, performing my best, giving you the best memories of your wedding day is needless to mention.
2010 is the year for manifesting ‘Art’ and ‘Humanity’. 2010, bring it on.
With Love,
Alicia
Lumiac Productions . Heart Crafted
The revamped of Lumiac Productions website has launched! Feel free to check it out at http://lumiac.com
I know i know, everyone have been asking me to post photos of my new work loft. I shall try to take a few snap shots next week. So stay tuned!!
Peace out my hommie
Love,
Alicia
Moving In!
Hey everyone, sorry for the accidental disappearance as Lumiac is busy shooting weddings after weddings and busy with moving into my new work loft. Lumiac is moving in with Bryanjean, Coffee stains, Rebirth and Revival at 32A Bali Lane. Photos of our new space will be uploaded once we’re done!
Love,
Alicia
Hui ling + James
Humanity
This video shows how starvation affected the people of Uganda, how mulnutrition leads to death. If you’re reading this post, please spare a heart for them, spare a heart for humanity.
If anyone of you are keen for donation, please go to http://www.sandamianofoundation.org/shop.html
Gate crash
Reasons for the below scene to happen.
- Making the groom and the brothers irritated for being too persistent for $8888 red packet.
- Showing them the gate key too near the door.
The above resulted in snatching, scratching and basically almost tearing the door down.
It was fun to watch all these happen because it ended up to be helluva fun for the brothers and sister as the tradition always goes on like this, ‘the sisters always wins’ and ‘always kiss and make up after gate crash’
Saidi + Liana
I seldom get to shoot Malay Weddings, this is one of the rare chance i guess, they are more interesting than I’ve imagined. The couple are considered royalty for the day, and so various royal customs are executed for them, including musicians playing court music and ‘bodyguards’ performing a display of Silat (traditional Malay martial arts) as blessings to the couple.
Recipe for Marriage
I was just talking to my friend on msn about marriage and commitment, she shared with me a guidance from our mentor Daisaku Ikeda which I think is very interestingly putted. So here it is.
How a husband and wife should be with each other is not a simple matter. Sometimes circumstances conspire in a strange way, so that wealth or an easy life can actually drive a couple apart, whereas what looks like a mountain of problems to an outsider can be the time of greatest happiness that draws the two closer together.
Unlike the kind of trust which wavers depending on the situation, true love, in the deepest sense of a bond between two people, is something that develops in the face of rough seas. But this doesn’t mean that one partner has to always give in to the other, or that the happiness of one can be built on the suffering of the other.
The husband is not the center of the relationship, nor is the wife. It’s not a question of who is the leader or who must make himself or herself a sacrifice for the other’s success and happiness. Just as a song is a marriage of music and lyrics, husband and wife are equal individuals who, at the same time, perform a single melody of life together. What is important, I think, is how beautiful a song these two life partners can create together.
In order to achieve a deep and harmonious relationship, I believe the two most important ingredients are a sense of gratitude and a common goal.
In today’s society perhaps a family should be thought of as an airplane. Buffeted by winds of change, the co-pilots have the responsibility of assuring safe arrival. The stability of a plane in flight requires clear direction, momentum and constant effort. And a successful flight requires that the co-pilots keep the same destination in sight.
I heard a story about a wife who felt depressed for a long time and eventually spent her days in bed. A doctor who knew her and her husband well wrote a prescription and gave it to her husband. When the wife saw the prescription she was shocked. It said “When your husband gives you the medicine, please make sure to take it after you have said “thank you” clearly to him three times”. She thought this was strange, but since it was underlined, she did say “thank you” three times before taking the medicine. She then realized that she hadn’t used those words for a long time. Every time she repeated “thank you” three times, her health and happiness came back bit by bit. A humble expression of gratitude makes a person beautiful not only in heart, but also in appearance. (Needless to say, this lesson applies equally to husbands!).
One English proverb says “Keep your eyes wide open before marriage and half shut afterwards”. Both husband and wife must try to be tolerant, and have a big heart which forgives minor faults and mistakes by the other. If you are being constantly scrutinized and criticized, you will not feel like trying to change, even if you know what has been pointed out is true.
I’d like to share another story which says a lot about the love between husband and wife. This is from “Gift of the Magi” by 0. Henry. It is about a young married couple called Della and Jim who are poor and live a barely furnished rented apartment. It is the day before Christmas and they have both been working out what to give each other to show their love. The wife, Della, wants to give her husband a watch chain to go with the gold watch he inherited from his grand father, which he is very proud of. She finds it costs $21 and all she has is $1.87. She decides that the only thing to do is to sell her beautiful brown hair, which is so long it reaches to her knees. In what ever country or culture, a woman’s hair means as much as life itself to her. But Della makes the sacrifice, selling the hair to a wigmaker and she buys a platinum watch chain with the money.
Her heart pounding with excitement, she waits for her husband to come home. He returns at last, and when he sees her, he is dumbfounded. The present he has brought for her is a pair of beautiful tortoiseshell combs to wear in her long hair. Della assures him that her hair will grow long again in no time and holds out her hand with the platinum watch chain gleaming in it. Jim collapses on the couch, then says with a smile, “Dell, let’s put our Christmas presents away and keep them a while. They’re too nice to use just now. I sold the watch to get the money to buy your combs.”
This story, with humor and pathos, demonstrates through the gifts they give each other, just how deep is the love between them. Each has sacrificed something very dear to buy a suitable present. But when they present their gifts, they discover that there is no longer a gold watch to attach the chain to, and no longer any beautiful brown hair to wear the tortoiseshell combs in. Both gifts have turned out to be useless to them. A practical minded young couple of today might point out that if the husband and wife had only discussed before what they were going to give each other, they could have saved themselves the waste. But the story deals with something that far transcends that kind of calculating logic. It concerns the beauty of the deep love between husband and wife.
Love takes a thousand different forms. Sometimes the husband may appear to outsiders to be impossibly domineering, yet the couple manage to get along with a surprising degree of harmony. On the other hand, there are cases where the wife seems to have her way in everything, but still an atmosphere of peace prevails. It is not, in fact, the outward appearance that matters. I always think that when a couple have shared the joys and sorrows of life over a long period of time, a deep tie grows between them that cannot be severed by outside forces. This is not the kind of open, direct love we might see amongst young couples. It is something broad and deep, a sense of a shared destiny.
I have known some 20 or 30 older couples who seem to possess this power, and I have felt the atmosphere of indescribable fullness and maturity it creates. You will find among such couples none of the tedious, whining talk of some old people. And, although many of them have not lived easy lives, there is no gloom in their expressions. You will find only the sense of deep self-sufficiency that comes when two people have successfully made their way over life’s rough places together, along with an appreciation of the preciousness of their remaining time together.
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Tara + Mark
Had a chance to shoot this very very fun loving couple. They weren’t afraid to be natural for photos at all. Ordinarily the ’self-conscious nature’ will occur when the shoot just started, like a warm up session. However, this didn’t seem to be the case for Tara and Mark, they were anything but camera shy.
We had a simple R.O.M, headed out for some shots, back for some food and it’s a wrap.
Like a turkey ham wrap from subway. Simple, with a hint of sweet onion sauce. Nothing over done, nothing too demanding, and very well appreciated.
and also, they’re pretty full of shit to the extend that i love working with them. wtf
AK
Serene + Pong
Went into abyss and got burried with weddings for so damn long. It’s time to do the regular update again. Here, I’ll post some shots from a wedding last week.
Lumiac Productions will be listed on Singaporebrides as of 1st september and as for that being announced here, more photos will be updated on www.lumiac.com for the ad.
Refraction
Caught this little girl making face at a wine glass. How cute.
Tea . Respect . Gratitude
Weigh me down, lift me up. My camera
oops! my blog have been left un-updated since I come back from my kampong trip. I’ve been rather busy with weddings the moment I touch down Singapore until now. Here’s some shots from recent wedding I shot with Brian Otto. We were feeling so much to do some street shot that after the wedding banquet which is 10.30pm we headed out way by foot from Tanjong Pagar area to the esplanade and did some fun shots till 2am. The only reason why we decided to go home is because out feet and shoulders cannot take it anymore due the heavy weight of our camera bags. If not for that I’m very sure we’ll hang out till morning and call Tsen to come join us at 12am. Photography FOR THE WIN!
Haha and here’s Brian.
Best poh piah in the world
Hello world! I’m back from my getaway and I’m very looking forward to all my upcoming wedding shoots. And how was my trip? One word, ‘SHIOK!!’
Here is a few photos I took right after I got off the train. This is one hellishly delicious poh piah in Seremban.
TAA DAHHH!!!
Lumi Holiday!!
I’m am going to Kuching for a short get away and celebrate harvest festival with burning scarecrows and roasting some animals probably. So my dear couples please bear with me if I reply your emails slowly as I’ve limited access to the internet, but don’t worry i’ll reply as soon as i get to check my mail. so keep your enquiries coming!!
I’ll be taking a choo choo train to Seremban to meet up with my maternal granny and family who lives there, and as mother’s day had just passed not too long ago. I have printed a canvas to bring in for my granny.
My granny, the sun that gives the light of hope to my family, the sun who gives me support in life all the way from Labu to Singapore.
This is a token of appreciation from me to her.
Table action
Ally . Mike
Alcohol + ANTM = funny CRAZY table actions
Thank you Alison and Mike for giving me this chance to shoot you and your wonderful times. Hope can go to Perth to pay them a visit in the near future. Here’s a series of surface play.
Peekture! (not for the faint-hearted)
OK! The below photo may seem disturbing to some of you, but oh well, i’m still gonna upload it here.
Thank you Tsen for shooting me all the time.
(not for the faint-hearted)
HK actress
Met the Hong Kong actress ‘Hong Bao Bao’ in one of my wedding shoots. she’s apprently a relative of the groom.
Just last week I saw her again but on cable TV, She didn’t look all that different from 20 years ago though.
