Vivian Chung 's Photoblog

New preset for food photography

Vivian Chung — Fri, 14 May 2010 08:51:46 +0000

A new preset for still life color improvement is available over at the new photo site. This set is design to achieve the crisp clean fine dinning look.

Light painting, custom apeture and bokeh

Vivian Chung — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:01:46 +0000

New tutorial at the new site : http://www.vivianchung.com/blog/2010/03/light-painting-custom-apeture-and-jewelry-photography-set-up-shot/

Have you updated your RSS feed or bookmark yet? All new update are now posted on the new blog.

New lightroom preset over at the new dig~

Vivian Chung — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 22:29:33 +0000

A B&W preset for low light/ underexpose raw can be find at our new home:

http://www.vivianchung.com/blog/2010/02/a-bw-preset-for-low-exposure/

We had moved!

Vivian Chung — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 09:43:56 +0000

So, I finally got my ass off the lazy chair and updated to prophotoblog. The new blog is now hosted under my own site, and here is the new dig’s address: http://www.vivianchung.com/blog/

Please update your bookmark.

From now on all of the update will happen over there!

Vancouver Nightscape couple portrait

Vivian Chung — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:29:13 +0000

Got down to Stanley park with Shawn and Michelle for some night time portrait. I brought Aidan to the Bright Night a couple weeks before, so when Michelle mention she wanted some pretty Christmas night as background, I immediately thought of this place.

Outdoor Maternity Session at Trout Lake

Vivian Chung — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:36:18 +0000

I think it is a common misconception that you have to travel to Vancouver West to get decent locations for outdoor portrait. Stanley Park and QE park are nice, but sometime, there are hidden GEM in the middle of the city. Take Trout Lake (officially John Hendry Park…not that I would know this fact by heart, hey there is a thing call Google Map…), a neighborhood park within Vancouver East, even in the middle of a chilly Winter it has lots of inserting Flora and a clear view to the north shore mountain providing an inserting backdrop for my 1st maternity outdoor session of this decade.

Jocelyn is pregnant with twins (BOYS!!), so even though she is barely 30 weeks, she would like to get some photos down now instead of later closer to her due date, because you know, twins usually come early. We spend around an hour in the outdoor, mostly just walking around and talk about being pregnant. It was a really nice afternoon.

We also did a intimate Boudoir maternity on the same day, please come back and check out that session~

Pre wedding portraiture session

Vivian Chung — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:57:53 +0000

Pre/post wedding portraiture session.

The rundown of a wedding day may be really rush , sometime bride often wish they can have more than an hour to have portrait taken in that expansive wedding grown.

We now ofter Pre / Post wedding portraiture session! Spend the whole day and visit all of your desire locations! Just the 2 of you (or with your maid of honor and best man…) in romantic seawall during Sunset, or go back and visit where you had your 1st date, your 1st kiss, where he propose……there are no location limitation, as long as your heart desire than we will follow you.

Half day session (4 hours ) start at $250 . Full day session with 2 photographers ( mid-afternoon to night time around 8 hours ) start at $500.

Abbotsford baby pre-crawler session

Vivian Chung — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:26:14 +0000

From their very own backyard garden...peeking thru the basil flowers..

I LOVE the cottage setting of Coral’s home. Grandma made both Kimono…one for mommy and one for baby. I had this shot planned in my head from the beginning of the session till the very end. I really wanted to include both but not wanting the mother to wear the Kimono since I feel like that is something that is done to death. Also the form and pattern of the Kimono can be more appreciated by laying it on the bed.

The end of the road??

Vivian Chung — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 20:51:24 +0000

I recently had to weed out alot of nasty comment regarding either the content or the writing styles of this blog….Come ON people, it’s a blog, free speech and all but really??

If you don’t like anything that is written down here, or anywhere else, move along. Or you know what is even better? Write your own blog…

I am a mother of two who has an interest in photography, and are doing all these stuff late at night when I can find the time…it’s not rocket science and not an English paper, if my English seem broken please embrace it, or just chuck it up as quirky and don’t read my blog.

Cross processing 4 presets

Vivian Chung — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:31:27 +0000

crossing the cat

sunset

violet

sunset

crossing the cat

studio portrait

So my friend has ask me how to fake cross processing in lightroom….given I had to google cross processing, so I think it was pretty safe to say that I am not a master in the matter. Perhaps something is better when you actually look at the develop panel…

Download all 4 cross processing preset here

Oh, and for those who have an issue with me using FREE file sharing site to let you download these FREE presets just because you have to wait 10 seconds…you know where to stick it…and please visit SOME OTHER site that ask for your money….I am not doing this for the money..fame may be, but definitely not wishing to gain money…so please FORGIVE me for not PAYING for file sharing just so you don’t have to wait….sorry I wasted your 10seconds, but in retrospect, understand that I had to spend a lot more than that of my time to adjust, export and post these for others to download….move along now.