Shooting Theme : Paparazzi

Invited to another shooting, this time they had it in Petaling Street, and the theme was supposed to be some sort of street shooting style, more like Paparazzi or some sort =]

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Having heard the sound "Paparazzi" most people might tend to think otherwise, like capturing a person bathing, more of the candid moments and such stuff, but when I heard that I was like

"Wah no zoom lens how ah?"

Because with the lens range I have now, I have to walk at least 0.45m to capture a nice enough shot, and with that range the person surely already will notice la XD

But yeah, this time the models of the day was Stephanie & Celine, you might remember Stephanie from my previous post of the model that was at 1 Utama's Rainforest =)
But somehow how it turned out.... erm... haha I also not so sure if it really relates to the theme Paparazzi.... =P

This time they had erm... 1,2,3.... 6-7 photographers being there counting myself in also~ at the beginning I really didn't quite have the mood to take pictures then, why??? Erm... well because I'm not really used to shooting in a group, it's more like everyone stealing and fighting for a nice angle, and rather feels crowded also in some way, but the only thing I don't really like is the attention we're getting as a whole lot of people stare at us... hmmm...

But I guess it's not entirely bad, one good thing one can learn from this is that though most nice angles are stolen if your slow, then you just have to learn to capture from another more dymanic angle... I guess... =P
But yeah mainly at the beginning I just kept my camera in the bag, and watched the professional photographers perform~ and also carrying Celine's huge make up box, urrrgh!!!

I wouldn't say it's heavy but at long term it gets a little heavy =P

So after awhile of observing, and looking at how they photograph Celine and watching how the model's do their stuff, Stephanie came over and asked why I'm not taking any pictures, then encouraged me to take pictures, not sure why but she said "you know Celine likes the pictures you take?" then I was like "wah really?"

Talk about motivational and inspirational speech, then I just felt so motivated to take pictures till I think I went a bit siao d~
Even to the extend of lying on the floor though got alot of complains that it's dirty... =P
But I guess it's worth all the filth if you can get a shot like this~~ if only I was more athletic I might even climb on the roof =P

But yeah that time just went siao la just snap snap snap non-stop =)
But for my case I was a bit slower compared to the other photographers, because a make up box in the left hand, a heavy camera in the right, and backpack in front with Celine's hangbag inside it =P It's not too heavy but somehow the backpack helped to serve as my left hand for the shoot... =]
How the shoot went was erm... well we begun in Petaling Street, aka China Town... but one side of it was going thru renovation so that was a little problem, some of them went to the temple, some went the other side, but then later they went up to the overhead bridge to capture some shots, then just randomly walk and walk till erm... yeah till they had to go home, was only in 2hours though... But after it all they just sat down, chat, relax, review the pictures and stuff....
On the left is Calven, one of those interesting characters that you know you'll be good friends with at the first time you meet them =)
Some of them wanted to take pictures of us, and said "Just look Natural" I literally panic leh... how to look natural!?!??! It's a totally whole new world being behind the camera and being in front of the camera...

But I guess to cut the story short.... erm yeah just show you all the pictures I took on that day =)








For the picture, I used a slow shutter speed at around 1/10 because I wanted to capture the moving motion behind of the people walking... but... not enough people leh!!! O.O

But either way.... tried tweaking it in Photoshop, gave it a little motion blur, and erm... masked out the girls to make them visible, and then added in my favorite half-sepia effect =)

yeah... though I didn't take much pictures on that day, but I guess overall it was a fruitful learning experience, always something to learn on a shooting, and if you don't learn anything then it's not really that useful in the end huh?? =p

But every shoot must come back with one picture that makes you proud =)
And I guess mine would be this picture for that day =)

Still alot more photoshooting coming up, busy busy busy... supposed to be one but it's on a Sunday morning so cannot go =P

Chasing your passion is good, but if your chasing something so much till you start to go away from God then it's really a serious problem, know when to walk forward, and when to step back~~ but in the end, stay faithful in God and you'll see Him revealing Himself to you =)

Still thankful how He opened doors for me, especially in this photography area, got an offer by friend to take picture of a wedding, but I had to say no because... Weddings scare me, and unless I start out as the assistant photographer, I would never be the main photographer, no experience then you go screw up people's wedding pictures ah, sure kena sued wan~ =]

Anyways... here's some of the pictures taken by the other photographers at that same day~~

DAVE CHAN
CALVEN LIM
MATTHEW CHOO
JEFF LAU
VALEN (Celine)
VALEN (Stephanie)

In the end it's always nice to see the pictures of others and see how you can improve to be better~ learning from each other I think that's what they say.... donno la =P

Oh well =)