Great Shot vs Missed Shot - Newborn Photographer Singapore

Hi all,

Often in life, a lot of great moments happen too quickly and may not even last for a few moments.

Newborn in their "fetus position" would only happen in the first 10 days or so in their life... 

I started doing Newborn photography in early 2009 for young newborn (5-8 days) for one main reason, that is to preserve the memory of the newborn as how they might be in the mother's womb.  

In fact, in all my photography, what is important to me is the "feel", the "mood" and the "moment" shared.

As a father, it is always amazing to look at newborn as they being delivered, count those tiny little fingers and toes... almost translucent thin skin...

It is still amazing every time I see newborn... they are so young, but they do know what they want pretty early in life... 

Many have seen images on our website and always wondering how on earth a guy learn how to handle the young and fragile newborn, let alone taking the images.... hahahaha... yes, I do get that quite very often...

Anyway... here are 2 images which taken about 10 minutes apart... one is a miss shot and one is a shot that I am proud of... 

I am pretty sure, if I don't show the one on the top, many of my clients would be happy with the "missed" shot...

However, in real life, I am a person which demand for the best from myself and I believe my client deserve the best I could produce both in work and service, not a rush and incomplete total experience. 

It is a combination of patience, understand the fundamental of photography, understand the fundamental of children behavior as well as understand the fundamental of the parents' reaction allow me to gain trust from all my clients to allow me to "work" and produce images that is unique for my clients.

Now the question some might ask, Is this shot Photoshop? Of Course... 

I was really "hate" photoshop about 5 years ago and think the best images should be captured as it is... my true confession is... because, I don't know how to use Photoshop back then...

One word about digital photography is, it is no longer a straight record of an image, it is about the photographer's vision on what the photographer see and feel and with the combination of the technical, the feeling and the emotion, it enable the photographer to fully "express" his/her vision... it is true in my case... some might challenge that....

Regards,

Hart

Tomato Photo

www.tomato.sg

Updated website

Hello all,

Just a quick announcement that we have just updated our website with more recent images.

More images on newborn, children and family sections.

Hope you guys love them as much as I love them.

Check it out...

WWW.TOMATO.SG


Regards,

Hart
Tomato Photo
www.tomato.sg

Photoshop.... what a wonderful tool...

Hello all...

It has been a while that I have this image in my mind that I want to create....

With this image, I hope to convey the important of Maternity + Newborn Photography and our idea behind Newborn photography.

Our idea was to capture how the newborn might be in mom's womb in the most artistic way possible.

I was just playing with the images and wah-la... I love it...

I hope you like it too....

Regards,

Hart

Tomato Photo

www.tomato.sg

Early retirement

Most people want to retire at some point in their life... taking easy with life and enjoying the fruits of their hardwork.

We have retired since started doing photography full time... its not work when we have camera in our hands and have someone to talk to.

Our aim is simple in photography... capturing our subject in their natural environment.

With our photography, we keep things really simple... a camera, a lens which don't zoom and a heart which feel the shots.

Our images is mainly the extension of what we feel, we don't play with rules, as rules are boring and since we have retired, why bore ourself?? we want to play...

Our challenge with photography is to create our style of work within the boundaries which our clients given us. Be it a limited space, limited time frame, highly unpredictable weather as well as unpredictable nature of the little one. Our biggest challenge so far in Singapore is the lack of space... but that has not prevented us from producing the work which is dearly loved by us and our clients.

We love to give each of our client a very distinctive images which belongs to them dearly... hence we serve our clients and create images for them with minimal fuss.... we start from photographing them in their home or travel to their preferred location, deliver the images to them while the "excitement" is still there.

It is always interesting to help our clients achieve studio images at the comfort of their own home...