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  • Wedding Photography Checklist Malaysia: What to Book and When

    Planning a wedding can feel like juggling ten things at once and photography is usually the one thing couples underestimate. The truth is, once the food is eaten and the flowers are gone, your photos are the only thing left to relive the day. So don’t leave it to chance.

  • The B-List: Candid Wedding Photos You Didn’t Know You Needed

    When you’re scrolling through wedding portfolios, you’ll notice the same types of shots popping up: the stunning couple portraits, the first kiss, the perfectly timed sunset. Let’s call those the A-list photos. They’re the ones that look amazing on Instagram and Pinterest, the ones that usually end up framed on the wall.

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    Pre-Wedding in Santorini — Because Some Places Change You

    There’s no shortage of photographs of Santorini.

    We’ve all seen the blue domes, the postcard views, the way the sun falls behind the caldera at the end of the day. But being there — physically walking those winding paths, standing still during sunset — it overwhelms you in a way no image ever prepares you for.

  • Wedding Photography Budget Guide Malaysia: What’s Worth Splurging On?

    Wedding budgets often feel like a high-stakes puzzle—what stays, what goes, and what’s secretly worth every penny? When it comes to photography, seasoned professionals agree: strategic splurges can make the difference between “We’ll cherish these forever” and “Why does Uncle Bob look like a ghost?” Here’s where experts say to invest—and why.

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    Dress down casual for couple portraits in Kuala Lumpur

    The city is a great backdrop. It’s busy, it’s interesting, and more importantly, we can’t get the Kuala Lumpur charm anywhere else, but Kuala Lumpur.

    The best of it all, is that the city is in our backyard. It’s accessible, and it’s there waiting for us to create new memories it. Photographing in Kuala Lumpur means you get diverse settings, from the sleek modernity of KLCC to our everyday street city charm. Each spot brings a different vibe to your photos, making each shoot unique.

    Jon has explore some of the routes through his photowalks, and it’s simple to create a photography experience in the city for couple portraits. The bustling markets and vibrant street scenes add life and authenticity to your portraits. Places like Petaling Street to Merdeka square are perfect for capturing candid moments. Despite being a bustling city, KL has plenty of green spaces too. Local parks to hiking trails like the Kiara route provide a serene, natural backdrop that contrasts beautifully with urban shots.

  • We were sharing at the Sony Alpha Super Workshop 2024!

    We’re excited to share our amazing experience at the Sony Alpha Super Workshop. It was incredible to connect with 100 passionate participants and dive deep into the art of wedding photography. Together with Eric, we explored the latest Sony gear, shared our favorite techniques, and emphasised the importance of capturing real, heartfelt moments.

  • Why Hiring a Wedding Planner Could Be the Best Decision for Your Big Day

    Imagine this situation. While in themiddle of a photo shoot, trying to capture those perfect wedding day portraits, and suddenly the groom gets a call about the missing red wine? Or the venue starts asking about guest accommodations right then and there? And oh, guests are arriving, but the registration desk isn’t ready? Yep, it’s more common than you’d think, and it can turn a dream day into a bit of a logistical nightmare.

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    Why Couple Portraits Before the Wedding Are a Must-Have

    Trust me, you don’t wanna miss out on this, especially if you’re planning a destination wedding!

    So, you’ve collected all these amazing travel memories together, right? But let’s be real, most of those pics are either awkward selfies, taken by a friendly stranger, or set up on a wonky tripod.

  • Top tips for choosing a wedding photographer.

    Recently, I’ve hosted a live session on both my Facebook and YouTube and I shared about some tips on choosing the right wedding photographer for your wedding day. More importantly, the one hour of my live session showcase how weddings unfolds. If you are planning a wedding, this session of live will be interesting for you.

  • Wedding Udaipur Part 3

    Day 3 was massive. The events were pretty to photograph and photographed we did. The Haldi ceremonies were turmeric yellow! The Gauri Pooja was heart warming. The preparations for evening ceremonies were great. The Bharat & Jai Mala was heart thumping, but we only have pictures to show you guys. Check out the video right above, and how we photograph the wedding.

  • Wedding Udaipur Part 2

    Day 2 was pre celebrations to what would lead to the ceremonious wedding day in the weekend. The Mehndi is lovely to photography, with amazing details are crafted by the henna artist to Tarinee’s hands, and fingers. They also hosted a dinner and dance in the evening maximising out time spent with the wedding guest. Check out how we photograph the wedding.

  • Wedding Udaipur Part 1

    In this episode of the afterwalk, we head off to Udaipur for an amazing wedding in India. I’ve broken this series to 3 different parts for different days of the wedding celebration.

  • Spare some photography time on a wedding day

    Planning a wedding day can be quite a feat. On a typical Asian wedding, we tend to have our ceremonies dictating how the wedding day unfolds. Do do a quick run through a typical wedding itinerary in your mind, and count how many times the bride and groom are actually together to get photographs taken. Almost none, for almost all the wedding day ceremonies out there.The bride and groom are often apart during getting ready, and the couple are surrounded by people during ceremonies. Be it an akad nikah session, a tea ceremony, a church holy matrimony or a temple ceremony, people are there to celebrate with the couple.Unless of cos if we could steal some time for the bride and groom, or even the bridal party away from the wedding day to get some photographs done. We wouldn’t have enough photographs of the bridal party, or the couple together.We always have great results when we have the luxury of time to work out something, but we are quick on our feet!

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    Simple Portraits : Album

    Studio photographs like these are gorgeous when in black and white. This is an album designed for our Contemporary 12″ x 12″ square album that can be purchase as an add on to the Simple Portrait packages.The Simple Portrait is for wedding couples who want to take hassle free, straight forward portrait photographs before their wedding day. We’ve got gown by 7th Heaven, and make up and hair by Angie Make Up. Do check out our video that we’ve compiled to how we execute the shoot.

  • Simple Portraits by Jon Low

    We are photographing Joanna & Lionel’s portraits for their upcoming wedding celebrations. We met at 7th Heaven where the bride chooses a wedding gown for the shoot prior to the shooting day.

    We’ve partner up with Angie Make Up and Hair for these shoots and had great results. In fact, we work together countless times in many pre wedding and wedding day photography assignments. The make up and hair for this session was approximately 2 hours. 

  • The many ways we photograph wedding rings

    The 3 rings which rule them all. These wedding rings are symbol of two union. Over many weddings, we collected different ways of photographing them. Here are some of my latest ones that we created from various weddings that we shoot over the last few months. Have you shop for your wedding ring?

  • JLRWP #04 : Albums

    A printed album is the final product of wedding photography. It’s the final cut, the gold master, the movie in the can. Hopefully, when you are old and grey, it would be one of the best books you’ve ever loved. 

  • Pre Wedding

    Pre wedding as the name suggest is wedding photography before the wedding day. It is popular in Asia and of cos here in Malaysia. Engagement photography is what the rest of the world knows it as.

    It’s a trend that has went through many iterations.

  • JLRWP #02 : What does wedding photography mean to me?

    I’ve been photographing weddings for the past 12 years and it has been a life changing experience. Photography plays such a big role in my life and it has became my livelihood, and my well being. And all the journey in the quest of making the next amazing photograph has led me to learn more about the craft, people and ultimately more about myself.

  • How we shoot destination weddings: San Diego

    In this episode of the Afterwalk, we travel half the world to photograph Abbie & Victor’s wedding. Watch the video to check out some of our behind the scenes, and also the photographs due for delivery to Abbie and Victor

  • AW #020 : Pre Wedding Portraits, Tokyo, Japan

    We travel for photos. There are occasions where we head out with an amazing couple on an adventure in producing some really nice portraits for their wedding. The couple hosted us while we were in Japan, moving from Tokyo to Karuizawa and somehow we ended up at Tateyama Alphine Kurube Road up on a snow cap mountain…… in JAPAN! I was stoked, we were stoked…. hopefully, they were stoked.

    In this episode of Afterwalk, we featured some of the many wedding photographs made for Stephanie and Sam. It sort of also highlight my workflow and style of photography when we create our portfolio for the newly weds.

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    AW#017: Elopement @ St. Regis Langkawi

    In this episode of Afterwalk, we return to Langkawi to photograph Egle and Anton’s wedding. The newlyweds hosted a cosy wedding just for themselves at the renowed St. Regis Langkawi. We spent a good amount of time to photograph wedding portraits after the ceremony and boy, do we have great lights for the photos. Check out this episode of the Afterwalk. Don’t forget to subscribe if you like anything photography. Click on the notification bell so that you get notify when a new video like this appears on my youtube channel.

  • AW#013 : Wedding at the St. Regis Langkawi

    We go through week to week photographing weddings and people. It can be my own projects, to a wedding we shot on an exotic island in the world. Ever wonder how it is like for us photographer be at your wedding executing ideas and workflow to make these wonderful images for our client? Wonder no more.

    In this episode of Afterwalk, we photographed Charlotte & Usman’s wedding at The St. Regis Langkawi. We dive into the wedding day, and show off some of the most important photographs that we shot for the newlyweds. Here is a story to Charlotte & Usman’s wedding. Sit back and enjoy.

  • An album many years in the making

    In this video that I did for my youtube channel, I had an idea of making a wedding album from experiences that I had gone through in my life. It is relatively a simple album yet classy. Totally bespoke, self-made and one of the kind out there.

  • What makes a great wedding album?

    Where do I start? If I were to draw an analogy, making wedding albums are like making a 2 hours movie that would be shown at the cinema, except that the movie is starring the bride and groom, not Emma Stone with Ryan Gosling. Not 2 hours long movie, but 50 pages, each and every page has a purpose. Everything else are more or less the same, just that we do not have multimillion dollar budget in producing it… and the time, certainly not the time.