Taking your studio on location

Okay, so working in a studio is great because you're photographing your subjects in a controlled environment, right? But what happens if you need to take photos on location?

This often happens to me, as someone who also works at a local newspaper company. Some photographers for newspapers would just use on-camera flash to light their subject. Some would have a flash unit attached to the hotshoe on their camera for better lighting by means of bouncing it off the ceiling and onto the subject. I used to do that as well... and in some functions I just can't run away from the fact that I have to settle on using a flash unit and bouncing it off the ceiling to light up my subject. But I HATE to settle on just using that because the result can often be flat. I just hate it.

Divine skies

A cloud formation almost resembling a cross.

Okay, never mind why I picked the title "Divine skies". I was on assignment for a newspaper article having to do with Good Friday, which was observed by Christians here in Malaysia on... well... Friday, April 22.
The article talked about what Good Friday basically is and what the local churches are doing in conjunction with this, and Easter Sunday two days after.
After meeting up with my co-worker at the Sarawak Club here in Kuching (and admiring her uncle's gorgeous silver-coloured Bentley Continental GT), we walked downhill to St Joseph's Cathedral for a look-see, hoping to get some shots for the story. It was 3pm on a sizzling hot Friday afternoon at the time, and yes, we were sweating away like it was nobody's business! If not considering how packed the church parking was, we wouldn't have parked our cars at the Sarawak Club parking space. But no biggie...