Leaving our great memories, temporarily.

For the past few months, We have the great pleasure to work in many different places in which We travel on the road and the sky as well. Miri, Sarawak is the latest city that we visited. It is never a doubt a beautiful city not only their heritage but the people too. It may appear small, but Good stuff always comes and appear in small packages right. We're writing this just before departing the city and going back to our hometown, Kota Kinabalu. We certainly coming back here, in the mean time we're very thankful for the memories for the past few days. Blog more soon.

Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday 2012

It's the time of the year again, your friendly neighborhood Team [JB] would like to wish everyone a Blessed Christmas and a Happy Holiday! During this holiday our office is taking a short break from

December 24th to 26th, and resumed as usual on 27th.

On a side note, Please be informed that, If you've received the Pricing Guide from us it will only valid till December 31st 2012 Midnight local time. New Pricing Guide applies to new signups but this does not affect to anyone that have made the retainer fee. 
For any Bride and Groom to-be that Wish to have us on their Wedding Day, please state your Wedding date and venue to make the process faster. Up-to-date We have another 10 slots available for actual Wedding Day for 2013.

Ok, that's it for now Have a great Christmas and go slow on those Turkeys. 

Warmest regards,

JoJ and Jofanna

the day i actually spoke to a car - RX7

If there's any Embarrassing moment during a shoot, I would like to point out this one. A couple of months ago I was assigned to shoot a portrait of this Man, then I got called again to shoot one of his car, which to be featured in a Mag. Part of me was excited and the other part says otherwise. I'm not really a Vehicle person, but I do know a few cars or two, but I'm dreaming to get a farfetched RR Phantom. Ok back to the story, some how I agreed for the shoot *facepalm . I recognize this car, I first saw it in a Japanese Manga I read in my teen years Initial D.

I came to the set, then setting up the light right away, not very sure how does a car really lit in a commercial magazine but I kinda did it using my common sense. When all the Strobes are set, it is time to have fun, So I kept shooting and Shooting, angle after angle. There's one particular moment Where, Tony was watching and I shoot - look into my LCD screen - lift up my head and says, " Very Good! Let's do One More!" and I swear to good I can hear the Crickets Laughing! Gosh What was I thinking Imagine if I ask the car to Jump! that would be epic haha! Despite that I had Fun but I do not think I'm seeing this kind of job in regular basis, this is my first and could be my last. I'm just gonna get the expert do it the next time. Nevertheless here's what I manage to get.

For the interest of you guys who wanna know what's under the hood,

Here's our humble result that we get after that embarrassing moment. Main Light with Ezybox on the Upper right, one Side light with CTO on my left and a Kicker Light underneath the Car.

Photography By : JoJ Yong assisted by Jofanna

Mazda RX7 : Total Solution

Arsenal : Nikon D700-17-35mm-SB900(3)-CTO-EZYBOX60

VOICE OUT - Album Cover

We did another charity assignment right after Kinabalu Pink Ribbon, and this time it is for the Youth Art Fest 2011. a Friend of mine from the Eyes and Ears Production, mastermind this local compilation album that contain strong message towards our youth. Follow your Dream, Believe in your passion are some ideas coming out from this music album. I'm honored to Photograph their Album Cover, looking at our Local youth doing things that they love is truly Inspiring.

We wanna create the image with everyone in a local urban set. Guess What, We ended up on top of a building and notice this beautiful red water tank.

We deploy three SB-900 for this, One serves as the main Light With diffuser and two as the side light, left and right respectively. The Result? Voila..

You can listen their Inspiring Music Here.

More information about our Passionate Musician.

JADEsisters, Donatello and BringBackTheArcade.

[JB] Running the 2011

Over the Year 2011, We are totally Blessed with so many great people around us. Most of which became our New Good Friends. The Fun and Thrills that We have trough out their journey from the photoshoot to their Wedding to their first child is really something that We really thankful for. To go through the Year with Jofanna was great but to run with people that We just met and helping you along the way even better. Therefor, We want to dedicate this little video that shows people that had help us along the year 2011. Thank you so much and We Love you. Here's the Video.

To sum up our year 2011.

Jan

. New Year Wedding . Jofanna's Birthday . a Havana Wedding . Eva's first KL Trip . a Cupcake Portraits . a Gelato Portraits . 3 degrees Celsius Ranau Wedding .

Feb

. Chinese New Year Break in Tuaran . the Core guy . a Ballroom Wedding . Coffee Museum . 14 years relationship Wedding . a Valentine's SNAPSHOT .

Mar

. Horse Ranch . Bender and PinWheel . Hot and Roll . Heels on the Beach . Secret Agent Breeze . the Amazing Wedding . Books and Fishing Rod . First FULL-FRAME shoot . Interview session . Invading Gaya Street . Running the Flight Runway .

Apr

. Langkah Syabas Beach Wedding . Justin Bieber Birthday Party . The Minister Portraits .

May

. a tripod self portrait Wedding . Classmate Portraits . Rock and Roll Wedding . Shenanigan's Portrait . Angry Birds! . Partay that never ends Wedding .

June

. Herbified Portraits . everyday I'm shufflin Wedding . the Workout Portraits .

July

. Tuaran Portraits . Mas Cargo Portraits . the States Wedding . Youth Art Fest Charity Shoot . Sabah Air Portraits . Divers Portraits . First Underwater Portraits Training . My Birthday Wedding .

Aug

. Little Italy . First Underwater Portraits . Shooting the Drifter Cover . Harley Davidson . Kinabalu Pink Ribbon Charity Shoot .

Sept

. Transformer Wedding . You'll never walk alone . Sandakan Wedding . Shooting in Singapore . Say no to shark fins Wedding . The Fireman Portraits . Shooting the Imager . Coca Cola . Shooting the lightning .

Oct

. Geeky Wedding . Malakai . Chinese Indian Wedding . [JB] family addition .

Nov

. a Tuaran Wedding . Sikh Wedding . Musician Portraits .

Dec

. ARE YOU READY a photographer's Workshop . a Scientist Portraits . a Beaufort Wedding . a Tune Portraits . a New year's eve Portraits .

Short Break that never taste sweeter

Gosh..Where do I start? Many stuff have happen from the last blogpost. Back in December We were out shooting Weddings till the last couple of hours of 2011, soon after that We're home getting our luggage packed before our short holiday a day after that. We're so occupied till We didn't get the chance to bid a proper farewell to 2011 and a great 2012 to our Family and Friends. It is now 1 am, I was determine to share a few words before heading to dream street. Everyone is fast asleep and my fingers keep hitting the keyboard. We have a great run in 2011 and by the look of our calendar I'm pretty sure We're gonna have another great one only better. What I know for sure We're gonna have another new year Wedding this year, just like 2011, Our Shooting schedule already occupy 29th, 30th and 31st December 2012. And Most probably We're gonna plan our next short holiday. We had such great time in Kuala Lumpur a couple of weeks back, spending quality time with our lil one. If you follow our Blog long enough, you know that We can only spend time with Lil Eva Whenever we're not shooting, When we're back from a Wedding Shoot she usually fast asleep and We can only see her the next morning. To be with her just the three of us in KL is rather a Big deal for us. Make up the lost time and doing lots of catch up. Unfortunately that moment don't last, But We're really looking forward for our next family getaway. Some of you might know what United Buddy Bear is, I'm not to sure how many of them on Display in Pavilion KL but We're Lucky enough to witness this cool event. If you're around the corner be sure to checkout every each one of them.

Here's a SNEAK peek of our recent Wedding Shoot, wait for it.....

For many of you that have supported us on our Kinabalu Pink Ribbon Calendar Project We wanna Thank You from the bottom of our heart. What's better than doing a lil good deed in helping others to start your New Year. If you still interest in helping please click the banner below. Until then have a Great Day ahead and Good Night.

Merry Christmas 2011!

Kinabalu Pink Ribbon : 2012 Calendar

This is some series of shots that We did for Kinabalu Pink Ribbon this year. A good friend of ours Des, gave us an idea on how we can contribute and help Breast Cancer Survivor while raising the awareness about this silent disease. We're pretty honored and excited to get the chance to met up with a group of strong individuals. Seeing them how they interact and livin the life, truly show us to see life in a different way. This is the same session if you remembered I tweeted and FB-ed about I'm looking for a guy with 6 pack abs helping us out for this charity project. The response was going south and we're so desperate to get one, out of no where an ol'friend of mine, Eyan ask if he can help. I'm like,"THANK GOD!" We finally got some one at last. The session was Crazy and We had a blast! Special Thanks to our crew on that day, Des and company and my ol'buddy Eyan for volunteering for this charity project. We did our part in lending our helping hand for others now it is your turn to help out. Get their 2012 Calendar, all of your contribution will go directly to Kinabalu Pink Ribbon. More details at the end of this post. Here are some of my Fave images,

For those that bought this We can't thank you enough. Here's how you can help, Kinabalu Pink Ribbon 2012 Calendar now available in [JB] Office. If you around the corner please drop by and get a copy at only RM 20.

Our [JB] Office address,

Lot 13, 1st floor, Block B, Plaza Grand Millennium,
Penampang By Pass Road,
88300, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah
Malaysia

Or

-On the way to Airport Lintas Highway
- Krishna Curry Fish Head Area
-Opposite CKS Supermarket or Chua Kah Seng
-Same Block as Dr Kissey.

We're Open at these time.

Tuesday to Saturday:
10.30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m.

Sunday and Public Holidays:
1 p.m. to 6 p.m.

On Behalf of Kinabalu Pink Ribbon , Thank you so much for your contribution! Have a great Year ahead!

The Silent Tear

This meant to be up last Monday right after We came back from our On the Road Shooting assignment. During our Absent, We Knew we have many great friends because of all your sweet messages in FB, Twitter and Text, therefor We wanna thank you from the bottom of our heart. Couple of weeks past by and We still able to feel how pumped up We were working through our Recent ARE YOU READY a Photographer's Workshop 2011, the long hours, the never ending ideas, the great participation from everyone made it worth while.
We never get tired of shooting Weddings, believe us. The great happy atmosphere somehow telling you that this is what you live for. In the early days, Me and Jofanna would give our all just to see our couple get through the day with many great memories. Same with what We're doing now, still shooting Weddings, Giving our all and the only difference is We have lil one sitting at home that have no idea what her mum and dad are up to. Lil Eva just turned two a couple of months ago, today we could only see her in every other day of the week. We're very lucky and blessed to have a family that able to take good care of her while we're gone. After our shooting schedule and returned home to her, she will give us that beautiful smile that lift us without thinking any fatigue that we pick up from work. As much as We want to spent our every day with her, sometimes work landed us to shoot on the road. Just like our regular Wedding shoot but on the road means you don't get to go home in a couple of days. We thought of her everyday, call her when we're taking a break or the Wedding is concluded. Sometimes she's busy(watching TV), sometimes she talk and sometimes she's already asleep. Last week When We're done shooting on the road and make our way home, We're so excited just to get to her. When we arrived, I carried her over my shoulder, rested her head and pat her back. Suddenly Jofanna and her aunt said to Lil Eva,"Why you cry?" and that was it the silent tear. I've never seen her with teary eye without making any noise, I'm pretty sure it is a happy tear. I've seen this in many Weddings, when Bride giving Dad a hug just before leaving the house, or Father Daughter dance. By looking at the bride with that emotion moves me but to feel it yourself, I just can't describe.
Before We leave, We just wanna share two images that We recently created while We're away. Check it out and thank you so much for your great Love and Support.





Happy Saturday!

Back in Town!

Just like the title, After two weeks of Weddings and Traveling, We're finally back to our own soil. What We like about Shooting abroad is that, We get to learned new way of understanding Light. Lights in different region comprise of the quality, Time and color. You just gotta experience and mold it to your best in your Photography. The light that We saw these few days are not only leave us a piece of memory but also teaches us to actually see how beautiful the World is, no matter where you are.