I’m on a roll here!
Two blog post within 3 days is incredible, especially for me. First of all, a big thank you to Sony Music Malaysia for the passes to Kris Allen‘s Showcase and especially, the meet and greet ones. You guys behind @sonymusicmy on twitter totally rock and oh if you have twitter, do add them up ok for freebies.
Trust me, they give loads of swag almost everyday!
Anyways yeah I won a pair of passes to the showcase and the meet and greet session via @sonymusicmy which was pretty awesome actually seeing as it is of course, the first time an American Idol winner graced our shores and performed. Hitz.fm was the official radio station for the showcase, hence the emceeing by JJ and Ean from the morning crew and being the cheeky people they are, they called a couple of people from the audience to sing some of Kris Allen’s songs.
The amount of photographers there were insane cause there were no rules prohibiting people from bringing their gears, hence myself as well haha! Camera’s flashing everywhere, but one thing that irritated me was, if you’re not using your flash, frigging take it off people! What’s the point of keeping it on, blocking people from bring able to see or even photograph and not freaking use it geez!
Ok, rant over!
Kris put on a great show, if not marvelous!
Although its just a showcase, and not many songs were sung nor was I even a fan of him (don’t kill me please haha!) but once you’re there, you can tell that he’s a great performer. Definitely worthy of the American Idol Season 8 Winner title. A great rocker, with an awesome band all back from even before his idol days which is one of the things I admire about him. Most people tend to get caught in the glory of being a celebrity but Kris is just the opposite.
One thing for sure, I’m a concert guy!
I love going for concerts! I love shooting em. The awesome ray of bright lights, the energetic performance of the people and musicians just lights up every part of me and when I come home to work on the photos, it leaves me with a sense of accomplishment every single time. I guess I really love what I do, especially when it involves colorful lights (I’m like a bug, only attracted to bright lights haha!)
Photos only from here on, since I’m sure most of you are only interested in that lol
Reminder to self, don’t just bring a 85mm to a concert, bring more lol!
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Nice shots.
Your pictures are so beautiful! Thank you for sharing them!
omg AWESOME !!!!1111 Lucky you.
Nigel – thanks =D
Nicole – thanks =D
ohsotalkatiff – hehe thanks =)
Thank you for the AMAZING pictures of Kris Allen! I cannot believe the quality of pictures that came out of Asia! I wish the Americans took pictures even half as awesome as yours!!
i went for the meet and greet with kris allen but personal cameras were not allowed. So they took the pics but i do not know where to get them. Where did u get ur m&g pics from?
Diane – thanks, that means alot to me. I admire many great american photographers as well. Zack Arias, Jessica Clair, Laurie Peacock, Jacklyn and Nate from theblogisfound and Joe McNally, all of whom are one of my favourite portraits and wedding photographers =) They provide most of my inspirations and they are awesome.
Chris – Hi Chris, I’ve sent you an email. Hope that you get your m&g pics soon
They may be good photographers, but they don’t turn up at Kris Allen concerts. =) You did, so kudos to you. His fans definitely appreciate it, and yours are some of the best pics I’ve seen, so thanks again!! =)
haha.. i so agree. alot of them infront of us owis in my shots! sigh. but you geng leh, i peeped (well, sorta.. lol) at you and saw your shots, dam nice. next time got chance, teach teach ya. =DD
Diane – haha thanks Diane
maRCus – lol where got =p haha will do, let’s go shoot together gether yeah =)