Our first showreel + a year of labouring with love.
All we can say is we’re deeply thankful for everything we’ve been entrusted with and everyone we’ve worked alongside.
Thank you —
And thank you for letting us do it all over again this year 🤝🏼
Portraits of China on the OPPO Find X9 Ultra.
Where the phone really shines is capturing portraits. I really love the way skin tones are captured, the subtle fall off of the bokeh as well as being able to capture a lot of details with the Hasselblad 200MP mode. I usually prefer shooting with portrait mode for the bokeh but something interesting I’ve found with the Find X9 Ultra is that its 1/1.12 inch sensor for the 200mp mode has more than enough bokeh for portraiture.
An added feature I don’t see many people talking about is the skin retouching feature. It’s actually really really good and looks really natural. I used it quite a bit together with the 200mp as you do capture way more detail and sometimes that means emphasizing the unflattering parts too.
@oppomalaysia
#OPPOFindX9Ultra #YourNextCamera #ShotonOPPO
What I really loved about exploring China was seeing how people were utilising their spaces. Old buildings were used as cultural showcases, children doing homework in parks, performances in restaurants or the elderly doing calligraphy by the lake. Many of the spaces look and felt lived in, not just for show.
Took these on the Hasselblad X2D II and the 75MM P. The native 4:3 aspect ratio on a medium format sensor feels like your experiencing a moment. Really hard to describe but the images out of the camera are just surreal especially when printed.
This trip was to experience and shoot with the new Oppo Find X9 Ultra. Something I was very interested in was how closely the phone compares to the X2D, considering how the phone is presented as being very similar to the Hassy. Will be sharing some thoughts about it soon!
#hasselbladx2dii
Stills from exploring Chongqing and Chengdu with the new @oppomalaysia Find X9 Ultra. Photographing China was such a rich experience and I really wished it was longer.
After taking over 20000 photos, the Find X9 Ultra has genuinely impressed me. In particular, Master Mode and the new Hasselblad 50MP 10x Optical Telephoto really surprised me the most. Master mode bypasses a lot of the “smartphone” look, providing soft and camera like images especially in the skin tones. I found myself using the 10x the most because it helps with cleaner compositions.
The fun part will actually be comparing it to a Hasselblad X2D II.
#OPPOFindX9Ultra #YourNextCamera #ShotonOPPO #SuperEveryMoment
Some work from early in the year for @oppomalaysia . Shot entirely on the OPPO Reno 15 Pro.
Brief was to make it Gen Z. But since I’m from the 1990’s, my dinosaur brain only liked these few here that are cleaner.
PH: @arekastudios
Assisted by: @shawnleebeatbox
#shotonoppo
throwback to our last shoot of 2025 and first shoot of 2026 — pics shot for @mcdonaldsmalaysia at the Golden Prosperity Launch on new year’s eve.
somehow we blinked and we’re already midway through March (!! 🫣) in hindsight, i think there’s something metaphorical in starting a new year the same way you end another. there are moments that hold two things together. and between getting to watch the curtains close on 2025 and seeing the first signs of whatever 2026 was about to bring, we’ve been so blessed that so much of last year has been instrumental in emboldening us for this year.
can’t believe Way Studios will be turning 3 this year! while there’s much stretching still to be done, we are lucky to be here for all of it.
thanks to our team of friends who rung in the new year with us for this one @jemsen96@shawnleebeatbox@drewlululu@breadboyshaun !
Closest thing to the perfect camera 🙆
2026 marks two years since I started shooting with the FX6 and despite some amazing cameras that have come out, the FX6 still powers through.
It’s not perfect and has its issues. Not being able to grab external audio without the handle, difficult to rig up and pretty noisy 12800 are some of the inconveniences. But when you add up the size, weight, built in variable ND, great autofocus and great image quality all for a reasonable price, it’s quite hard to beat.
But in the social era, I do wish I could shoot open gate sometimes. Rarely, but there are times it would come in handy.
Even in 2026, id get another FX6.
Unless I get a great price on the Burano 🤔
Stills of the Jonas Brothers shot on the @oppomalaysia Find X9 Pro.
Got the chance to watch the their show in New Jersey last year as I was shooting for The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus who were their surprise guest. Wouldn’t say I’m a huge fan but damn their show was insane. Amazing sound and killer musicians. Such an experience!
I was only shooting video on the FX6 so I didn’t have my normal stills camera with me. The Find X9 does have some issues with HDR and heavy noise reduction but I’ve been super impressed with the images coming out of this phone. I started photographing concerts with the Canon 550D and to think that I can get these photos on a phone today is just mad.
I used the teleconverter kit which effectively makes it like a 230mm on the 10X mode. But I was shooting on the 40X mode mostly making it around 400mm. Images come out soft but still passable.
Hopefully an X9 Ultra comes out because it’s been really refreshing to have something like this in your pocket.
(I do shoot for OPPO Malaysia often but this post isn’t sponsored nor requested. I just really like shooting with the phone)
#shotonoppo #oppofindx9series
If you told me 12 years ago that a small, dumb kid from Subang Jaya would be at Warped Tour covering a band he grew up listening, I’d call you crazy.
Yet, here we are.
This trip took 16 hours each way. I remember reaching backstage at Warped and feeling like everything was a daze. Coming from back to back shoots in Malaysia, jumping on a long haul flight, and straight to shooting in a foreign place isn’t the easiest.
I’m just a small boy from a small dot on this earth that lots of people still have not heard of. But the minute RJA started playing and everyone in the crowd was moshing and singing along, it reminded me of when some old friends and I started a terrible cover band and we had so much fun. It wasn’t so much about being good but just doing things together.
I might not be a musician anymore but the photos and videos I capture now are almost a reflection of my past and in many ways, it’s really comforting to see that despite so many things changing, a small part of me is still the same.
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Was mostly capturing video but I brought along the new @alphauniversemy RX1R Mark III because I wanted something small. The camera has so many quirks that I likely won’t ever use it on a professional shoot. But as a tool to document the moments and memories, this camera really is something special. Will share more thoughts on the camera in future posts!
#redjumpsuitapparatus #vanswarpedtour #alphauniversemy #sonyrx1riii
Early morning test shoot in the studio with the new @apple iPhone 17 Pro. Trying a new setup for future projects. Using the @profoto B30 shooting through 216 diff. Swipe all the way to see how the photo looks with natural light only.
My thoughts when it comes to gear is that truly, gear doesn’t matter. What matters more is how and why you choose a piece of gear.
The idea was how would the phone hold up in an editorial style shoot and would it fit my current workflow minus the camera. Why flash? Because I wanted to push my ISO as low as possible which meant a tone of output. Sure could have used content lights but the B30 is tiny and packs 750W.
Only downside is to use the flash, you need to profoto app. The usability is… ok. It works but it’s not as intuitive or as smooth. Colours straight out of the app are pretty bad, skewing green in the shadows. Nothing shoot raw or editing can’t fix but it doesn’t really inspire me to shoot looking at the photos straight out. The light tho 🤌 Beautiful punchy look without heavy hotspots even with bare bulb. Amazing recycle time with so much power.
Honestly, i am very impressed with how the iPhone held up. Even with rapid clicks, it kept up. And if I didn’t tell you it was shot on a phone, you probably can’t tell. The simplest setups are often the most complicated and if it makes sense to use this setup, I would. Only other downside I can think of is that you are limited to shooting stopped down all the way. No bokeh control on the Profoto app.
Overall, fantastic combination of size, weight, usability and image quality.
Thanks @srishtidigilife_my for loaning the light! (And now I need to buy a B30 cause I miss shooting with it 😢)
#shotoniphone #iphone17promax #profotob30 #createwithsrishti
Never ending quest for the perfect setup. Been going through multiple iterations with bits and pieces of accessories constantly being changed out.
The biggest change so far is the battery plate. I initially was using the normal FX6 battery plate from Tilta but eventually switched to their version 2 because I don’t like not having a redundancy for power. Also, if anything fries, I rather have everything else fry and not the cameras. Downsides are the V2 plate is big and heavy and only takes rods from the top plate. Not the cleanest build and it can be cumbersome when going handheld.
Second recent edition is the Sennheiser EW-DP. Finally decided to upgrade my audio kit and I’m so happy I forked out the cash for this. Sound is incredible and ultra stable. I don’t really like how bulky the receiver is but it is what it is. The magnetic mount is pretty handy at times.
#sonyfx6
