photo shoot - 18/02/09 to 20/02/09

One thing about photographers nowadays is that you can find a lot of good ones around. They're booming like mushrooms and each day you'll get to see more and more people carrying SLRs to take photos. Since last Thursday until today, my team of photographers has been doing photo shoots for The Roof. Talented and proven, these are photographers I can count on to take good shots to promote The Roof.

Jacquelin Ajuni - Photographer and blogger, Jacq of http://caneeliea.com/ has been taking food photos for quite some time. She is pretty good at it and has a well known food blog at http://kk-food.blogspot.com/. In fact, Jacq will also be featured in next month's issue of Breeze magazine as blogger of the month. I have high confidence in her work and recruited her to take shots and help promote The Roof's upcoming signature dishes and set lunch in her food blog.

Julian & Fara - The dynamic duo behind SILVERHAND Events And Creatives, this couple is a powerhouse combination of photography, graphic design and managing events. Both of them are also famous bloggers. Having them on board creates an opportunity to promote The Roof at SILVERHAND's popular website at http://silverhand.com.my/ and their blogs. More importantly they are taking shots to complete and publish the new flyers, posters and ala carte menu that I require to promote The Roof and it's promos.

Radzie Rahman - Now a familiar face as a photographer in almost every major event at Kota Kinabalu, Radzie is one of the masterminds behind Life In Borneo.

"Life In Borneo is one of the fastest growing informative portal providing you information about Borneo and the lifestyle in Sabah, Sarawak and Brunei. Ranging from the events going on, good places to eat, the most happening spots in town, adventurous places to explore, places to relax, shopping.. and much much more. - http://lifeinborneo.com/"

As quoted, Life In Borneo makes a perfect spot for me to advertise The Roof. Radzie is currently helping me to take extra shots that i might need during this period of photo shooting and agreed to have Life In Borneo to do coverage for next week's launching of The Roof's signature dishes(more details on this later).

So the photo shoot started last Thursday and everything went well so far. Many good shots were taken and I should be uploading them in The Roof's facebook page soon. Here are some photos of the photographers in action...

Today is the last day and for the remaining photo shoot, it is down to Julian & Fara to take the last shots to be included in The Roof's new ala carte menu that they will design and publish. Salute to them as they have been working around the clock last night to finish up the design for flyers and posters for signature dishes and set lunch promotion. Once the photo shoot today is done, the design for the ala carte menu should be completed latest by tomorrow.

All the design will be used for advertisement in newspapers, magazines, etc. SILVERHAND will also print out the flyers, posters and menu. So far according to Julian, the posters should be done by today. Can't wait! Will post them up. As for the flyers, there will only be up to 500 pieces printed by Monday morning. That would be sufficient for now for me to ask my sales team to distribute to nearby shops and offices. The ala carte menu however will only be done printing by next Friday due to the quality of material I requested. I'm hoping the menu can be printed earlier but that will do for now.

*fingers crossed* Now I'm just hoping SILVERHAND will get everything on their side done in time while I concentrate on the next plan of action.


p/s: Special thanks to my buddy Wei Chuen for helping around during the photo shoot and giving me valuable tips to market The Roof.