Moodless~

The day went by really fast today as I was not really in the mood to do anything. I showed M and my father the images I took over the past two weeks and both of them have such contrasting ideas... My father would be like where is the law of the lights and some other rule? Please crop/ DI the picture if it cannot make it/ before you show me.

While M would be like its alright to make it a little under exposed. Just compensate the light. Let your hair down man you are too technical! Its like its in your blood!

There was also one particular shot whereby my father went like 'if I were the judge and you submitted that under portrait, I would just fail you. Please don't submit anything that scary. This is a failed shot and it can never be used as portrait' 

While M went 'I love her expression. Its so serene. Although it looks a little more like reportage to me, you can use that and try for portrait.'

Then there was another one where my father went like 'What's this? I hate the pose. Fail. Do a close up on the doll. They don't look nice when you take the full body.

While M went 'Thats a really good pose. Its a nice shot! I like the way the lights fall.'

Epic.

But thanks to M, I have a rough idea on how I want to go about shooting my girls(: So if I really can't find anything that has to do with people at work, I will submit two still life shots:3

I killed my previous hard disc last year which resulted in me losing like many years of portfolio. However, when I looked through the 'better' ones which I posted up online, I really felt like stabbing myself. Like I actually posted those shots up>.> As I looked through them, I felt so miniature. In every post, I noticed that I actually apologized that my shots were that bad! What on earth was I thinking. *stabs self*

All I knew back then was the theory on how to shoot but I never actually used them correctly.  

One really good example would be the structuring of ambiance light and the diffusion of light. I used to think that when I am shooting dolls, I had to go down half a stop and diffuse a flash pointed at 45 degrees to the subject by using a piece of tissue/ paper. 

Screw that and use continuous lighting please.

Composition wise would be shoot first and crop later. Then I moved on to following the rule of 3rds and 4 points and crop if it failed.

I seriously came a long way round the wrong road and I just have to push myself more to reach the top. I am really really disappointed with my people shots and it is no excuse that I am under performing. I will be shooting again this Saturday and it should be really fun to see what I will come up with. 

I can do it!!!!! 

Tag replies:

FanofAlice: Thank you<3 But that shot can be improved(: I will be re-shooting them so you can look out for my images(: 

Angela: haha sure! It will probably be a really random day depending on my mood and the weather<333