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An Evening with Daskin

Posted by Khairi Hafsham on August 02, 2008| 2 Comments

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*