In Genesis, it was recorded that God said, “Let there be light and there was light.” As a photographer how I wish I had such power. Poor weather & lousy lighting conditions have deprived us of many photo opportunities. Some of my colleagues moan about working in the tropics where we only have a “golden [...]

As photographers, we meet so many people. I have a photographic memory. Faces that I’ve photographed rarely escape my mind, even then I don’t remember everyone. There are so many new faces at a wedding and the events of the day are usually hectic. We blaze through the day trying to expose, light, compose the [...]

Watching replays of the London Olympics opening ceremony brought back memories of my days as a photographer and journalist with the Borneo Post. Fresh out of university, it was my first official job. All I could afford was a Nikon FM2, 35-70mm lens and a beat up Sunpak flash. It was the advent of digital [...]

Wedding photographers are generally a cursed lot. We never had enough time with our subjects. Delays, traffic jams, bad weather, last minute changes and very often, make-up artists (there I’ve said it), can take away previous time we allocated for photography. By the time everyone is ready, the golden hour is gone. What can we [...]

Seven years ago, I started Louis Pang Photography from a vacant bedroom in our house in Tawau. I was the janitor, dispatch, receptionist, photographer, retoucher, album designer, customer service manager, all roll into one. I had to! Nobody else cared about the brand and photography as much as I did, so I thought. It wouldn’t [...]