5th Wedding Anniversary shoot with Photographer Dap - Part ii

after lunch, back to shoot. weather remains beautiful and sunny! gx hardly could open his eyes! he found it way too glaring! baby R was opposite, she seemed to love the sun rays on her! she was beaming with energy too! i am thankful that we had such a lovely fine day for our shoot! also the pink sail was a pretty sight to have on our photos!

what you see in the videos are of cos specially selected by me... the reason why i slowed down so much with my post is not only due to the parties and wedding we attended... i spent quite abit of time editing the photos and creating new ones from jus one photo and i see which one works out better. before the shoot haha i did think of what can we do during the shoot... lots of brain power put into thinking, something simple and easy and it will turn out nice and not look silly... but we are dealing with a very active baby who doesnt listen to instuctions very well... even thou she understand... she doesnt do according! but it was worth a try!

i wanted a back shot of jus me and gx... fat figure but i want the shot as i love back shots... but it didnt turn out as romantic as i wanted the pic to be and its not dap's fault! cos either gx or me couldnt take our eyes off our little one who is suppose to stand next to dap and dap had to stretch out her hands to hold when baby R tries to run while taking our photo! then u see baby R infront of us and running past us! wanted her to run thru our hands but she ran past instead! but i still love the photos cos its very natural and reflects what happens on the day! when she finally ran thru, she was dashing hoping to get away from us so that she can have her freedom to do whatever she wanted....

but of cos we caught her and she got back to the same spot and we decided to hold her hands for a shot!

love it that dap takes far shots for us. she did discuss with me cos she was worried that i might not like it.. but i told her to work her magic and i put my camera to the highest resolution so that i can crop in for details. she did such a great job of not following us and took a beautiful shot of  my little family strolling across the field. from one photo, i created another 3 and it all gives a different angle, different feel and i managed to crop out jus US without baby strolling ....

when i told baby R to go get dap, she ran a dn fell and i was glad dap caught a shot cos she look so cute on the grass - evil mummy! but she seriuosly looked like she was posing! daddy urged her to stand on her own and they hugged when daddy got nearer to pick her up! sweet moment....

Gx wanted to show baby R the waves and we head back out towards the sea...

dap loves to take slanted photos too.. i love the huge sky portion where it make it look endless and so blue and beautiful. i am very affected by the palm trees that is blocking the waterway ... so i usually have to crop away the trees! also i will turn every slanted pic and crop them to give the photo another feel and usually these are closer shots.

when we took for dap... haha... we took it straight.... nothing artistic! OH NO.... her photo really is better than the ones we took for her... so i tilted the photos and crop it alittle to give it a better composition.... still not as nice as the ones she took, cos i can only tilt but not enlarge the sky area.

baby R was afraid when the airplane flew past! she found them loud and she hid her face and hugging me very tightly! we told her thats is the little aeroplane cos everynight i sing her a chinese song about planes. we told her theres nothing to be scared about and we managed to make her overcome and she even waved goodbye to the plane. Dap was great as she managed to take a shot of us with the plane and i cropped the plane out for the video.

You & Me

when i first heard the song by Olivia Ong, i liked it. if you ask me if i choose the song first or look at the pics then decide, it all depends. if there is a song i like, sometimes i keep it in my mind and i find a chance to use it. usually i load up all the photos, go thru the list of songs i have and i place them in to see if it fits... sometimes the song has alot of meaning to me and it suits the occasion. for You and Me, when i heard the lyrics with the photos, it was perfect. cos i love the part where it says, even those days are gone, they will have each other - then i show why those days are gone with baby R's pics! the mood of the song was just right for the feel of the photoshoot day!

we decided to get to the ground to be near baby R to take some shots. she was trapped bewteen us! her expressions caught on the camera were priceless. on a sunny day but it doesnt bother her and she is always showing her pipi tongue! baby R looked so cheeky when we did the family cheer!

my dearest GF and Me!

haha i think we look so nature together! dun think Mr Tan will ever be able to pose like that with me!

love these shots alot!

 

daddy oso had a best fren... his darling gal. theses are some shots i love of them!



still i need to thank one more person - the pink sail for being there at the right time!

Lunch break from photoshoot - em, but we didnt stop shooting!

2nd destination, we were so uncertain if the place is still around! many years back, gx and i celebrated his bdae, with ser's recommendation, i fell in love with this place! its not yet changi beach area cos gx says its still consider the end of east coast. then the restaurant was interesting cos we sat on the beach to have dinner. last time not many people would take out their cameras to take pics... so i recall if i have any or even if i had its in the com that dropped died years ago... lost many precious photos in that com... ever since i learnt to back up but i yet to do any back up since baby R came along!

we brought frens here for dinner before, its very relaxing and i love the idea of getting our feet sandy and haha almost eating in the dark when the sunsets! we went there several times with my fila-excols a couple of time for dinner+ ktv session above the restaurant but that was years back too... ever since i left fila i never got to go back there. when we turned into the little lane that also leads to the army chalets.... i really hoped that the place remains... but sadly it has changed... grass replaced the sand and theres railings across blocking access to the water....what a waste! the breakwater also was blocked with lots of plants... alot of couples used to come here for shots.... so much changes.

we almost tot theres no biz gog on... we were the 3 group of people in the indonesian style restaurant. the chilli served with the tapioca crackers burns tongue! but i tiki, have to dip to get the shiokness! i find the menu cover ugly... weird design!

the view we got was nice but we arent really facing out when we eat... how baby R tells us she is hungry? she eats herself! kinda miss the old restaurant cos i had very yummy cheesy baked crab.... but it was nice to have indonesian too cos we had our honeymoon in bali! as baby R waited for me to set up her lunch, she somehow keep doing this chicken dance routine! she would swing her bend arms left and right vigorously!

dap and i had avocado drink with chocolate sauce but we had to ask for more chocolate sauce thou! gx had chendol. i can't remember what soup we had! think it was beef soup! cos i didnt drink any! gx ordered nasi campur but it was jus fried rice with an egg... the kang kong if i didnt remember wrongly caught us all on fire! the chicken was ordered wrongly as i wanted it grilled but it came with sauce but it was not too bad. the best dish we ordered was the grilled squid! its very good but the only problem is that it wasnt really HOT it was warm... the tofu was ok i think cos i dun really remember much about it... the food overall ok not fantastic but edible.

daddy was sleepy after a sunny morning walk and heavy lunch. aunty dapdap looked recharged after lunch! beauty of aunty dapdap is that she has no complains for the day and she has good appetitate and its always nice to eat with her! as for baby R, she was recharged too! she didnt seemed to mind the hot sunny shoot we had in the morning and she wasnt going to nap! she even did her spanish dance move with her tongue doing a series of leh-leh-leh sounds!

lazy daddy was given a job - to take shots for baby R+my dear fren+me! baby R sure knows how to pose with us! she is very comfortable with dap around! she spread her hands behind us to give us a sweaty group hug! neh, it wasnt sweaty jus kidding. baby R loves dap for another reason - dap's accessories! baby R loves all her accessories!

can't remember what baby R did but we sure laughed hard! she was the happy nut that kept us smiling thru the hot afternoon Saturday! took us some time to get baby R to return dap's bangles! she had so much fun transferring both bangles to one hand, had one on each of her tiny hands... she jus had so much fun with them!

then we hid one corner in the restaurant to change baby R's diaper. the manager suggested us to do at the seats cos they dun have a place for that purpose... when she was done, i put her down from the bench and she started running! dap tried to help to block her but she "escape"! daddy who was settling the bills came to corner her but she managed to turn and ran the other way! when i was done packing, i joined int to block her and daddy managed to get her off her feet!