Edit Choice

1 out of 400

Yana, 2012

I've been doing the edit for this shoot. 

Total 1100 shots, which is not that much. 

Back in the days, I had to choose 1 out of 400. If the story required 5 shots, thats looking at 2000 images. Sometimes, a photographer shoots 400 and there would be only 3 to choose. Sometimes 20. But sometimes, its just way too much shooting. 

Editing is important because you are choosing the next few shots to work +8 hours per image on that. 

It is like choosing a girl to stick to for a while. 

Got lights?

Josh

Joshua Goh, 2012

Josh was living in an abandoned Police Coast Guard HQ.

He creates a matrix with lights.

Dancers

The Ring

Yana, 2012

She was like a butterfly hopping around.
Ring went up and down, across her arm.

Rowing On A Butter

The Old Police Coast Guard HQ

Life is like a tumbling road. 

Where am I going? Mommy says "I dunno."

Sometimes, I think these people has found their way. 

It was quite beautiful to watch them dance. 

Light Test

Spot

Singapore, 2011

Since my gears are... ghetto, I have very limited light currently. 

It is not like New York, here in Singapore, where I can rent Profoto gears any day, every day, for cheap. 

Plan

Got Plans?

Andriano and Nuri, 2011

Singapore

Everyone's got a "Plan", so to speak. 

My friend Chris Goodney is losing his vision. He was claimed Bloomberg Newswire's best photographer by their chief editor, and his vision goes blind. 

Was that in his plan? I swear not. 

Before he started photography his life-time girl got crushed by a car. And just like that, he started photography and just like that, his life plan on a girl went somewhere. 

What about me? 

I couldn't graduate from high-school. I snuck into college, and I got out of Parsons with honors. That was never in my plan. I was studying architecture and apprenticing under a photographer I met at Chelsea's starbucks, and my first job was sweeping floors and holding a chord... so the damn photographer wouldn't trip over. 

Mr. Steve Jobs even said "you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards."

I truly believe in that. 

I don't have no Rand on my back or Atlus being shrugged. All I do and believe is in making things better for myself and people around me. 

But that kind'a sounds like a plan. 

New

What's New?

Andriano, 2011

At this point, everyone is waiting for aliens to come. 

I'm neutral. 

Around 3AM last night, a friend texted me saying he's about to change location. 

At 12 noon, he texted me he was still awake listening to music, at a different location. 

Party goers are always fun. 

I wonder if aliens partay too.