Anyone in Malaysia must have known Louis Pang. He is Malaysia’s most awarded wedding and portrait photographer. Louis is one of the few wedding photographers out there we highly respect and admire. His works and how he runs his photography business have been inspiring us so far. And above all, he is a great teacher and a very humble photographer and friend.
Louis has apprenticed to Joe McNally, a lighting guru and photography master who we hope to apprentice with him one day. We both met Louis and Joe personally when we attended “Let There Be Light” seminar in Kuala Lumpur earlier this year. So when we heard Louis organized another workshop and seminar about ‘lighting’ and ‘business in photography’, we signed up immediately.
So last week we headed to Kuala Lumpur to attend his workshop and seminar along with two other photographers whom I used to work closely with. One is YC, my ex-partner in crime when we both first got into photography world. The other one is Lester, now a senior photographer to take over most of my responsibilities at the company I worked at.
The first day was a workshop, Louis shared with us his skills and techniques on how he normally handles light (both ambient and artificial) and how he normally interact with the subjects (here we’re talking about the couple and their friends/relatives) to pose them naturally. The day ended with two 1-hour practical sessions when he splited us into small groups. I managed to group up with YC, but separated with En-En and Lester.
The second day was a seminar, we seated with other 90 photographers who are hungry to hear about how Louis runs his photography business from zero to where he is now.
We’d like to dedicate this page to Louis and his wife Jasmine. Thank you for sharing everything. We surely learnt a lot from you at inspire+ and hope to see you again next year in Bandung =)
Below are some photos taken during the workshop.
Low key shots of a bride with ambient light coming in from the window as the light source.
A shot taken under the harshest light situation with the help of skylite to diffuse it.
During the practical sessions, each group has to come up with ideas on where, what, or how to shoot..
Here we were trying to proof that 3 SB 900s will be able to fight the sun. It was proven! The first photo was showing that the power of the flashes were a bit too low to fight the sun.
But we then succeeded…and things went from good to better.. =)
Then we tried to imitate the sun during sunset coming through the window. Here we used this wall partition as the window…
How one small flash is able to achieve so many things…
And how we can play with ambient light…
Or use snoot to direct and concentrate where the light will fall…
Or…to use one strobe and one reflector to achieve this…
“Light makes photography. Embrace light. Admire it. Love it. But above all, know light. Know it for all you are worth, and you will know the key to photography.” ~George Eastman
by tha
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