A depressing picture to start a depressing post.
Haha alrights I promise all the bad stuff will go to Alice's diary!!!
I shot for the fashion show yesterday. It was not excatly my best shoot but it just re-affrimed that I have lots to improve on for fashion shoots.
First up was the shoot in the salon. Whereby the lights were all preset by my dad and I just have to point and shoot. Initially, I was really surprised that he gave me free reign over everything! From the way I positioned the models to the way I shoot. Working with professional models are so fabulous! Firstly, all I had to do was to tell them where to stand and they would work magic with their bodies! Be it a slight movement in their shoulders or a little tilt for their head, they are able to show off their best sides to the camera making it so easy to shoot! It is like when I am ready to shoot the next shot, they already made some changes in their pose! Awesome<3333
Things I took back would be to play more with camera angle. As for fashion shoots, when you take a straight portrait, it looks really boring so tilting my camera makes a hell lot of difference! I guess some of the models were pretty shocked when I was the one who took their pictures instead of my dad but I can't really blame them as I was really shocked as well>.< I should have been clearer with my instructions as well as I think I was pretty stunned and was really really soft spoken. Then again, I love working with them! Shall post up the pictures really soon!
After the shoot in the salon, was the runway shoot. I took the 70-200mm on the 550D body and was suppose to get the closeup shots of the models. I failed horribly>.>
Actually I do not think it is as bad as he said as I am really confident in some of the shots but the rest were just blurred. Things I took back would be to shoot at one spot and stop following the models around. My hands were dying throughout the entire shoot is it is no mean feat for me to hold up the 70-200mm for 40 minutes straight.
Overall, it is a shoot whereby I took back loads of suff in which I can work on. I should be more confident in myself and to believe in what I am doing instead of panicking. But one things for sure and that is that I do not like telling people what to do nor do I like people telling me what to do. I can probably never make it in fashion>.> Ah wells. Life. Experience it, learn from it and move on.
Ok really poor editing as I am lazy.
After the shoot, I went down to vivo and crashed the doll meet they were having(: Caught up with a few of my friends and did a really random shoot with Angela. It was pretty crazy as we were suppose to be shooting dolls but I ended up being so bored that I dragged her to be my model again(: I borrowed the cloth like scarf she is holding from a nearby photographer and asked her to wave it around 8D
Kino~~~ you are dearly loved!!!
It is not the best but its part of idea that has been bugging me. Movements.
Chio Kino is chio<3
Ponyo~~~
Yesterday, while chatting with one of my friend online, I told him that my job scope requires me to sit in a cold room without food wihle staring at dolls. He asked if I was acting in a horror movie!!!! Epic. Then again, the truth is that I have to sit in a really cold room while hoping that the next person who walks in do not speak Chinese. My Chinese is absolute rubbish and I feel so sad for all the dolls in the shop T__T Well, at least the sleeping Dana is back to cheer me up! On a heavier note, the shop might be closing down like really soon and as much as I am complaining, I might even be jobless before I get my paypal account back! I do not throughly enjoy the cold days spent in the cold room but the only thing that keeps me happy would be when I style the souless dolls there. Then again, there is not much to style as I do not have much to work with.
Looking on the bright side, this job kept me alive for the whole of the last semester. I would probably die of starvation if it is not for this shop. honorei paypal!!!! To add on to my misery, someone just PMed me about a Canon 35mm F2 lens in which he wants to sell for 400SGD T____T I can probably cough up 350SGD and starve for the whole of next week but 400SGD is just way beyond my budget. I think I should change my thread title to something like 'a poor student is looking for a 35mm'
Ah wells lets just pray that something wonderful happens and my entry gets slected for the Canon be empowered contest and they will sponsor me a 35mm. Or that by god's grace, I win the SYPA contest! I will get myself a 5D mark 2 and the 35mm then T__T Other than that, I could somehow get myself a new job that either pays more or that I get to shoot as part of the job. Just keep dreaming T_T
Random image shot by Alvinz on my S90 has absolutely nothing to do with what I am going to blog about next.
Because sometimes a photo does not always need to tell a story but it can also be used as a filler 8D
So I would be going back to school tomorrow and I am kind of looking forward to it(: Handing up my image for the SYPA competition has been a dead weight off my mind and I feel so much better now(: Aparrently, we will be in different classes right now and I will not miss a few people from my current class. My first two modules are Japanese and Prepress. God knows what prepress is. the study of how a printer works 8D
After looking through the namelist of who got into the Japanese elective, made me realised that besides two names, the rest are complete strangers o.o So looks like I will be on my own once again>.< Thankfully I know a few of my current classmates who are going to be in the same prepress class as me so yayness(:
School is probably going to be hectic but I will manage. Together with the many many shoots planned out ahead. I guess I will survive with this really twisted mind of mine 8D Oh and I just found someone who has the same mindset with me and does not belong to TPB! I swear it was so bloody werid! Its like he is the male version of my mind! It was pretty amazing as both of us face the same problems in terms of how we view, judge and shift others around for a checkmate 8D And I thought I was the only twisted one around(: To be loved and never hated. Idealian comes into play everywhere I look and I am so glad that I am not alone(:
On a lighter note, I just finished "A Thousand Splendid Suns" I love that author to bits. The kite runner was really amazing but 'A Thousand Splendid Suns" really shifted the entire story to a woman's perspective and it was yet another beatiful story whereby I fell in love with the people of the East once again. I used to support Bush for starting the war due to various reasons but right now, I finally understand why so many are against it okay I am sorry it took me long enough! When I shot Kiyomi for the 'Prayer' series, I did it with the Afghan people in mind. Their sufferings, pain and all lumped into one shot whereby everything was hidden beneath a veil or a rather failed burqa. Okay its inaccurate but that was all I had was a really long skirt to work with.
Their country was raped again and again but it is the determination of the people who really touched me. I did a research on Afghanistan and its history and it was not pretty. The talibans are just sick and I want to travel to Afghanistan one day when I have the power to do so.
So these pretty much sums up my thoughts for now. As quoted, 'Its not that we think too much but we rationalise too much.' But seriously speaking, I do think a little too much for my age at least(:
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Angela: thanks<3 Enjoy your shots 8D
FanofAlice: Thank you!
jonny: Have fun<333
