Khud
Going back to Malaysia this coming Saturday, yuhuuu - can't wait. Still haven't bought any souvenirs for my family yet. Buying something for my mother,brother and sister is pretty easy, but not for my dad. Having serious problem thinking of something he would like - going to stuttgart tomorrow to shop :)
Anyway, let me introduce to you guys - khud, my senior here in aalen :) What?Another guy??!!! i know, i know. But it can't be helped, i am after all, among engineering students, which common sense will tell, very very little females :(
It was pretty fun taking picture of khud, he is one the kind that throws ideas at me while taking pics. Not only that, there were also times where he will suggests to me how to set-up my lighting. har3
To me, yesterday's photoshoot was more like a learning session than a practice :) Because me and khud had some ideas of the image that i should make, i was spending a lot of time adjusting the lights rather than taking the pics (although i did end up taking load of pics, just not the one i was aiming for).
that's a chocolate actually, not a cigar :) khud doesn't smoke
In the end, i got what i want and learn a few new tricks too in the process of achieving it. Danke khud, who was cool enough to waste time together with me yesterday :)
Sabah
Suppose to go to Reutlingen this evening to redo the portraiture for Taufiq Shariff, the one i messed up previously. But due to some unforeseen event, i had to cancel the trip,again - was my mistake, not his.
And there i was, in front of my room looking all fine and dandy, even had my deodorant on me, my photography equipments at my side and nothing to do at all. So i went down (i live in the eight floor) to see if my magazine has finally arrived, that way, i could probably waste the spare time i had in hand. But it hadn't arrived yet, even though it has been more than 6 weeks now, schnitt!!!
But only then, from where i stood, i saw the magnificent golden evening light pouring into the reading room - it was cool. I needed a model fast - called Daskin, he was sleeping. So, the other one available left, was pdos a.k.a sabah. I prefer to call him sabah though - will be addressing him that from now on :)
Went to his room and asked if he was willing to be my model again, after last night - he agreed and immediately changed to something decent, while i went down back again and set up the light, had only one, so, not much had to be done. After that and 236 frames later, here was what i got :) All the b&w were taken with natural light and the coloured ones, well, i used a strobe through a white umbrella.
All but one of the b&w shots were taken in the reading room and all of the coloured one was taken at a bar just next to the room (bar for any parties that the student wish to hold at the reading room)
That's all for now, been updating unusually frequent lately, hurm.
Trio
Just a few night shots i made yesterday together with the help of Daskin,Bruno and Pdos a.k.a sabah. Would say that this was my first night shots i ever made using flash. Normally, i would avoid using flash during the night cause i can't control the spill very well. But sooner or later, i will have to take some night shots too, so, better sooner i guess :).
As usual, i never had a photoshoot free from problems. This time around, its the lack of light (duh!!!) which causes focusing issues and blurriness. But the good thing about shooting with strobes during the night, i don't have to drain a lot of juice from the flash. There were times where i only utilize 1/64 power, which is darn low.
Didn't take a lot of shots though. It was late and we just had dinner,thus making us very sleepy very fast, especially during my setup process - i could hear the 'models' yawn like they were breathing, hehe. But they maintained their coolness at times when i wasn't, which i appreciate really much :) thanks guys
All the shot above was made at a nearby parking lot :) and by the way, that's my bicycle he's abusing
This shot here, was taken at one of the stairs heading up to the University's Old Building :)
Lastly, this was shot at the bicycle garage at my hostel :) That's all -- full.stop.
An Evening with Daskin
What better way to waste your time other than to do something you really enjoy - time moves faster that way, i am sure all of you procrastinator out there agree with me :)
Being almost bored to death yesterday, i immediately called Daskin, my on call model, he is always ready for any photoshoot session. He likes to have his pics taken and i in turn like to practice taking pics - and everyone is happy :)
Since the session was a spontaneous one - i didn't have much idea in my mind. All i did was, just walk somewhere, find something cool to work with, takes some initial shots with available light,then put up a strobe, shoot again, then move to the next place.
All together, i was shooting for about 2 hours yesterday. We took shots at two places, the first one was along a dog path in the forest and the other at the side of Aalen Wald Stadion.
Yesterday's photoshoot was totally different compared to the one on last Monday. First being, i took all the shots seen in this entry with only my 50mm lens. Next was,these pictures had only minor post processing, mainly colour and tonality correction, sharpening and noise reduction - and for the b&w, i also add vignette and burned the edges - seems like a lot, but believe me, this is very minimal for me :) And thats not all, i also took 245 pics i think, within the 2 hours yesterday, compared to 300 shots within +/- 5 hours on Monday, hehe :)
Anyway, as a side note, i learnt something valuable today. Actually, i knew about it for quite sometime now. NEVER ever trust the freaking LCD at the back of your cam. At least i can't trust mine - it always show my pics brighter than it's actually is. I am not sure what i am doing wrong, but from now on, i am only gonna look at the Histogram, that's it, nothing else *except for when checking the light in the shot*
Reutlingen
Nothing much to write in this entry except just to share a few pictures i made last monday when i was in Reulingen. Was there to do a few portraiture shots for a friend of mine, Taufiq Shariff. But as ambitious i was, it didn't turned out the way i wanted it too - kinda upset about it the whole week. Planning to redo the whole thing next week. Hopefully it will turn out better since there are a few things changed since last monday (one being, i have seen all of the shots and kinda know what worked and what didn't and what can be improved)
So for time being, just as a fill before the next session, i would like to showcase a few of the shots that came out decent.
the picture above was taken by Taufiq Shariff :)
