Friday couldn’t come soon enough! Having gone through 4 painful days of lowerback pain (I pulled a muscle from sneezing in a cross-legged position last Sunday during lunch and had to shoot a wedding that evening, which pretty much killed my back!), I’m glad the pain has subsided significantly, just in time for the weekend!  So the week is finally over but my weekend is looking wayyyyy more hectic than the past 5 days, in a good way, of course!

Here’s a portrait shoot I did a couple weeks back for Chaswood Resources, who you may know them better as the people behind TGI Fridays, The Apartment, Italiannies, Laundry, just to name a few. We go back a long way…. back when Laundry first opened, and actually if my memory serves me, even way before Laundry days! Chaswood Resources is a comprised of close knit group and very much family-oriented. Everyone there is warm and friendly and the people I’ve seen and photographed there since day 1, are still the same old friendly faces I see today. Needless to say, it was a pleasure photographing them at the Apartment KLCC that day as I got to catch up with Petrina (brainchild behind Laundry and the Apartment and the rest of it!) and discovered Andrew’s hidden talent for modeling!

Have a great weekend you guys!

This father-daughter pair make a good team. They are so cute and sweet together!

Andrew requested for some “personal” shots for himself…. he’s looking super stylish in his Raybans!

Chen Yang is our latest addition to the FIFOTO team and joined us a couple months back. When he called yesterday and told me the [Behind the Scenes] video of our recent FIFOTO crew shoot was ready, I was stoked and eagerly anticipated his arrival at the studio this afternoon. Shila and I took a break from our hectic album-making session and we were both blown away from the very first few seconds into the clip! Thinking back, we should have taped the expressions on our faces! As expected, Chen Yang did not only meet my expectations but far exceeded it! He did such a great job with the video-recording and editing! (Ok.. I shall stop here now, don’t want to raise the expectations too high but I’m seriously happy with his final cut!) Many thanks to Chen Yang for his passion, talent and artistic effort!

For optimal viewing purposes, pls let the file load completely. Just a heads up, it will automatically load and play so pls press the “PLAY” arrow to pause and allow it to load 100%. Then press “PLAY” arrow again. (Yes, a tad bit confusing, sorry about that!)

As we always like to hear from you, please leave a comment and tell us what you think of our first ever FIFOTO video!

Special thanks to Gabriel as well for teaching me how to convert the huge-a** movie file to a mini upload-able version! (Yes… this is my first video post!)

Click here to check out photos from the shoot!

Blessed to be working alongside a group of individuals who share a common passion, goal and zest, I am so thankful and grateful for the fantastic crew who have many a times, gone above and beyond the call of duty and proven their love for the art and for the team. Their undying dedication to FIFOTO is the reason behind where we are today.

A couple weekends back, we got together for a FIFOTO crew shoot for our new upcoming website. We had a lotta fun, as we normally do! Special thanks to Jason for helping with the setup and photography, Emilia, for her incredible makeup, styling and posing skills, Kit for helping us take our group shots, Chen for the [Behing the Scenes] video which will be coming soon and David for the [Behind the Scene] photos. Not forgetting, Steve & Aips for bringing the booze!

Fiona, the wired perfectionist. Slightly more relaxed now upon completion of her MBA.

Steve – grounded & unassuming. Loves Coke. Loves Beer.

David, SAP consultant by day, photographer by night. Marathon runner on some weekends.

Jason Highway – pure talent. Behind and in front of the camera.

Aips – easy-going, friendly and sometimes punk-rockish. Also an alcoholic.

The new addition to our crew – Chen. He’s just SWEET!

Emilia, the makeup artist. Great with colors, hair, styling and sexy poses!

The DI Girls: Shila, the recent Finance graduate and Corrinne, pregnant and doing her MBA.

The Posers. They don’t need no introducing.

The FIFOTO Boys

The FIFOTO Girls

The FIFOTO Crew of 2009

[Behind the Scenes]

Special thanks to David for the photos!

Emilia demonstrating the “Thriller” pose

Watch out for the [Behind the Scenes] video! Coming soon!