My Day As A Stylist

We had our Professional Practice shoot today. I was making arrows all the way up to 5 in the morning last night. We went to Michael's house and he was setting up his little mini studio.


We haven't started working with flash in studio but Michael's shot for a living before he became a student. He's our photographer for this project.


(L): Weird, I don't remember shaking the arrow around like a twerp.
(R): Jess, our producer - inspecting my props.


Ed is our art director and also our modern-day Cupid. I was fixing his hair; trying to give his hair some Farah Fawcett 'wings'.


Michael shooting a variation of shots. I think the color's are a bit tacky looking but they're our 'supposed' client's corporate colors...what can we do..? :)

I am officially the psycho in the group because I'm really anal about stuff.

"What do you think of the composition of the arrows?" I asked everyone; referring to the last shot we took.

They burst into ( scared ) laughter.

I was serious. (-_-") If I pull one arrow a little higher...it would look better. There WOULD be a difference!!

I'll show you the final outcome next week. The pics didn't come out looking too bad. Oh, I should show the previous project - Panadol Rapid was our client. Ravin was one of the photographers and he did quite a kick-ass job.

I feel a little restless. Fidgeting around, not knowing if I want to go to sleep or not, not wanting to do anymore research and not really wanting to read a story book either. I'm dead tired but it's only 10pm. Will my weekend end just like this if I go to sleep??? Haha, life is soooooo hard, eh? ;)

Top of The World

My cousin has a friend who stays at a penthouse. Yes, a student staying in a penthouse. We dropped by the other night.


I was pretty jakun and took a picture in his bathroom.


This is the view from his balcony. I don't have a panaromic camera so this is only 1/3 of the view. Can you imagine waking up to this view every morning? You can yell, "I am on top of the world!!" every morning; then skip to school after that. Or shake your ass to "Top of The World" by Carpenters every morning. Sounds good.

Must be nice to be super rich. :( But apparently, he never goes anyway without his bodyguards when he's in his country. *Thinks hard* He could imagine he's Rain...! It's not so bad.

Apocalypto & A Weak Wife

I watched Apocalypto last night with the boys.

"Want to watch Apocalypto? Ravin has it," Joyi asked.

"No, it's gruesome."

"It's fucking fantastic, watch it," Joyi pressed on. Ravin nodded, solemnly.

"Don't want. Damn scary."

"It's not, it's okay. It's like 300."

At the mention of 300, I agreed. I thought 300 would have sucked but it kicked ass. "Okay, okay, fine. Just the beginning part."

They grinned and switched on the computer. Yes, we watched in on a computer but Ravin has a 29" monitor so it wasn't too bad. I was right. It was gruesome!!! Especially the part of the attack. Oh my God. I had my scarf covering my eyes most of the time.

"Booo!" Ravin and Joyi would randomly scare me when we were watching it. Then they would laugh to themselves. (-_-") They're such childish idiots.

Just now, I was talking to Marionette about the movie:-

"Will you protect me and the kids like Jaguar Paw?" I asked online.

"Of course but I don't own a forest."

"So you're not going to run away and leave us?" I asked, feeling so touched ( ha ha, I'm a naive girl ).

"Of course but you see his wife is so strong. The small boy is also strong. If it's you.. I think you'd kill yourself. Hahahaha. No food. No cigarrette," he added.

(-_-")

What the hell...at least I thought he WOULD protect his wife and kids. In return, he thinks I'll kill myself if I was the wife. Furthermore, he gave a really long "hahahaha" in his sentence. Seriously, I need to kick his ass when I'm home in 5 weeks' time.

I don't think there's anyone who hasn't watched Apocalypto yet, right? :) The ending was a bit of a spoiler though.

Costume Frenzy

We have a class called Professional Practice - team members of 4 in a group. We're assigned to be Art Director, Stylist, Producer and Photographer. In the last group project, I was a producer and I was sooo in my element of organizing and bossing people around.

This time around, I'm a stylist. I handle locations, props, make-up, hair and wardrobe. I'm sooo not in my element. We're working on an ad that I don't really love love love because the initial idea was more conceptual-based. But it's alright, we're all in it in a group.

I have to go looking for a pair of Cupid wings, guns, ammo belts and make my own arrows, . O_o The one thing good about Melbourne shops - they believe in online advertising. You type 'costumes hire Melbourne CBD' in your trusty Google search box, voila - you'll be able to get some choices.

I just called up a costume hire store, yes, they're selling Cherub's wings for only $15.95! I hope they're good. Today is a day for me to go scouting around the city for costumes and props. Head off to class by 1pm and then back to sourcing for props and costumes. Tonight will be a night for me to make arrows.

It'll be fun ( I promise myself ).


Michael, our team's photographer. He is a sucker for pretty girls. For folio, he's shooting on a medium-format camera. Some people are such loaded enthusiasts. (-_-")

By the way, when is Halloween again? Is Halloween big in Melbourne? I reckon RMIT Village will organize a Halloween party? I definitely want to go as a geisha. Wahaha. Hey, at least I'll be a cultured ( sort of ) prostitute. Ok, ok, prostitute is not the right word. Geishas are beautiful. Oh wow, I can't wait till Halloween. Geisha powwahh, full on with the hair accessories, white make-up and blood red lipstick. I'll even practice their little steps of walking.

Botanical Entry

I suppose it would have looked better with a proper camera rather than a camera phone? Alright, the composition sucks ass too but to justify myself, the tree was right; the buildings around it were not. The best things about autumn are the trees and colors of dying leaves. That didn't sound right. Dying leaves. *frowns*

Also, on the way back home, I saw this great big rose!!


It looks like it's made out of silk ribbons, doesn't it!?!

*Note to self: Always bring your P&S camera so as not to collect shitty phone pictures.

On A Cold Thursday Morning

I woke up early today. I am having my leftover muffin and coffeee. I feel accomplished. Usually, I never eat till dinner time. Class starts in an hour. It's cold today.

My mind's running through a few things:-
01. D.I test today
02. Group discussion
03. Weather for the weekend is shit
04. Shitty weather = no shoot
05. No shoot = no folio
06. No folio = fail fail fail
07. What to wear today
08. Should start getting dressed now
09. The time in Malaysia is now 6.35 am
10. Instant coffee sucks
11. To cook dinner or not today
12. No folio = fail fail fail

Andd...how did I end up being a student once again? Today is a brand new day. Let's nail the day like a bitch. Okay, that saying is so random and doesn't really make sense.

Have a great Thursday, everyone. It means the weekend is near. *Pauses*

Weekend weather = shit weather
Shit weather = no shoot
No shoot = no folio
No folio = fail fail fail

(-_-")

Blabber-licious

Happy Anzac Day!

I was talking to the husband on Skype while he was working OT in the office. It was about 5.45 am when I heard bagpipes playing. That was an experience. Went to bed at 7 am, happy once again with the husband and woke up at 10.30 am to the brother vacumming the carpets. (-_-") I grumbled at him then went back to sleep. When I woke up, it was 1pm...half a day wasted. I sprung out of bed, grabbed my cameras and went out to finish up my roll.

Then, I met up with the kids to go shoot one of them while they were 'golf-ing'. Being kids, they were tardy and when we reached the course; the sun was threateningly setting down. Argh. I scheduled for a re-shoot on Saturday morning. I wasted a whole day today. So pissed.


The sky. It made me pissed off. Other than that, it was quite a beautiful sunset.


The world's 2nd cutest dog ever. The cutest is definitely our baby, Ori. :) Casper's Mum & Dad brought him to the golf course. He was so happy; running around. I carried him and walked around the course, talking to him. My maternal instincts are kicking in - stronger than ever..! Husband should be afraid I'm talking babies here.


Casper is mixed Shi Tzu and Pomenerian. Okay, I probably got the spelling all wrong. But he's so cute, I always baby talk to him. I go, "hiiiii darling, how areeee youuuuuuu?". I think everyone within the radius all tremble and get goosebumps.

Argh, it's 11pm already!

P/S: 5 more weeks till I come home. I can't wait!!!! Bak kut teh, warm weather and sex the husband.

P/P/S: My mother is coming down in 2 weeks. Home cooked food. Awesome!!

Damn You, Research!

And no, you can't see my breast in that shot. I seriously don't have breasts. Even my friends here mistaken me for a boy.

P/S: I need to get back into the habit of taking self-portraits. Narcissism is calling screaming out my name.

P/P/S: Do only my friends read this blog? Is there anybody else who reads this? Introduce yourselves? If not, I'm assuming my friends visit my blog more than 10 times a day? I love my friends. I miss you guys. I miss the husband. The husband just pissed me off...big time.

Subjective or Objective

I've been looking at so much of reference that I'm starting to get confused. What makes a good image and what doesn't?

My studio lecturer always goes, "it's subjective" when it comes to what needs to be sharp or not. My location lecturer always goes, "it needs to be razor sharp" when it comes to our color transparencies. The lecturer tells us, "you get thrown so much of images that you don't even know what's an original picture and what's been digitally enhanced."

True, true.

Sometimes, it's subjective. Sometimes, it's not. As long as we fulfill the fundamentals of a good photograph, the rest would be the photographer's own preference? I think that works out the best. :)

Yosh!

Happy Shooting

I went to Camberwell Market on Sunday. When I met up with the boys, I saw them carrying their cameras.

"Never tell me we're shooting folio!" I exclaimed.

"Happy shooting laaa," they answered.

Liar, they were shooting on color trannies lor. I, on the other hand was really happy shooting because I shot on color negs.

'Happy Shooting' is a term we use. It means we just shoot whatever we like; things that won't be going into our folio or rather, we shoot without giving a rat's ass about our folio briefs. I like happy shooting because I can shoot crap. :)

It was the first day I brought the EOS 1N out and shot with it.


Getting lens flare is usually a big no-no in uni. That's why I said I love 'happy shooting'. I can shoot with flare getting into my lens, anytime. No one's going to say anything.


Ravin bought a polaroid camera; just because he loved the strap. He hangs it around his Nikon FM2.


I don't know why I shot this. *Thinks hard* Oh yeah, testing the most shallow depth of field I have with EOS 1N. It's weird. I used to think shallow depth of field means 'everything's sharp in the frame'. Instead, shallow depth of field means 'sharp & blur in the frame' and deep depth of field means 'everything sharp'. I thought deep depth of field meant shots with extreme 'sharp & blur' because the term 'depth of field' means there's a strong definition of foreground and background. I was so confused during the start of classes.


Colors from the same palette. I found the colors quite fitting when I shot this.


That is sooo NOT my cigarrette. Again, I liked the colors and placed my own Converse into the frame. It's weird how my most worn shoe is my Converse. Back in KL, it was my Elle heels. :( Times have changed.


Less leaves. A little less busy shot. Notice how the cigarrette and the leaves have a following trail. I swear I did not meddle with the shot.


Stepping into a puddle, just to get the 3rd picture of the 'Converse & Leaves' series.


This group of kids approached me. "Take our picture!!" they exclaimed. Ravin and Joyi looked at me. "We're shooting on color trannies," they answered. Sigh. I guess, that leaves only me. I smiled at the kids, asked them to pose and snapped. When I received the prints, I was shocked. They're 13 years old, at the most. What were they doing with their fingers!!? Kids these days. They wrote down e-mail addresses and demanded I send them this picture. However, they were polite - they screamed 'thank you' at me and ran off.

Ahh, happy shooting is lovely. Takes away stress for a while. I can't wait to happy shoot again.

Happy Birthday, Misheru

Yay. Happy birthday to me. :)

I just came back from meeting up with the boys. They gave me a cake, candles and...glow sticks. (-_-")

"Do you guys want to eat the cake?" I asked them.

"No, you eat it. It's your cake."

I don't know what planet they're from but this is the first time I got a birthday cake and nobody wants to eat it. Phooey. And glow sticks? I think I'm supposed to have a little party by myself in my room.

This is the first time in my life I'm celebrating my birthday by myself. Okay, there're the boys and cousins here. You all know what I mean - being away from home, bla bla. Marionette called and sang me a birthday song. It's not too bad, I still have friends here. :)

"How does it feel to be in your last year of early 20s?" Daniel asked.

(-_-") Must he remind me?!!

By the way, congratulations to the (if )ians on their win. I don't know if I can announce it so I won't. But, congratulations, boys. No matter where I am or how far away I am from design, I'll still remember my good ol' days with you guys.


(if ) is still as crazy as ever. Today, I'm assuming they had 'sports' attire day? I can see Marionette in his dodgy shorts. Haha, that's actually quite a good shot. I wonder if they kept really still or somebody just shot with a fast shutter speed. Oh wait, the person shot on digital, auto-focus? Of course... :)


I'm getting nostalgic here. This is where I had my first 3 bosses and to this day I still adore Zoya and Chris, learnt 'boys' stuff and met Marionette. If (if ) asked me to shoot for them, I'd do it in a blink of an eye because of my gratitude to them.


(L): Awesome shot Ben took 2 years ago.
(R): The 2 (if )boys I hung out with back then.


(L): Zippy was cuter than Blund; in a freaky kind of way.
(R): Marionette must have thought Sanyen was me.

It's weird that when I was 18 to 20, I've mostly hung out with Jarrod and the boys. When I was 21 to 22, I hung out with the (if )boys. Now I'm 24, I hang out with the Melbourne boys. I am indeed a 'boys' kind of girl. The only girls I've ever truly loved are my best friends from high school. Looking back at my old pictures, ahh, I miss being young!


Cecilia's 23rd birthday dinner last year. Besides me, she's the other April baby.


My 23rd birthday party at Passion. It was fantastic. Partied, drank champagne and stayed over at a hotel. Awesome.

Happy birthday to me. *Takes out glow sticks and waves them around* I miss you girls, Marionette, Ori baby and my family. *Muah*

Cogs & Chains

On Wednesday, we had a studio shoot based on the title, "Cogs & Chains". I wasn't looking forward to it because it was so masculine. I'm sorry I'm not a good student but I dislike masculine objects like cogs, chains, metal, etc. I'm more of a flower, food, etc person.

The boys went looking for cogs and I asked them to help me out because I had to go to MAS's office that day. When the boys showed me the cogs they bought, I was quite horrified. They were huge and...too masculine! I thought I'd be done for and just do a straight-on shot. I even paid AUS$16 bucks for a piece of flat textured metal to shoot on.

The night before the shoot, a part of me didn't want to give up so I thought hard and did some research. Then, it dawned upon me that I can still do something feminine with cogs and chains.

Anyhow, I have to show you Joyi's set because he is insane:-


He stuck cogs into a watermelon and hung chains around for his set. Look at the guy, he's so bloody happy.


Seriously, I'm questioning his state of mind. Today in review, lecturer looked at it and asked the class, "do you know what happened in States recently? Be careful of him ( Joyi )". Yeah, Joyi told us some ideas for studio and location shoots. He is one disturbed boy! I'm not going to disclose his ideas here though.

So, this is my set:-


I diffused the light because I didn't want hard light on metal. It would create really harsh and blinding highlights.


And so, I shot my Tiffany & Co. bracelet with some small cogs ( I got them myself this time. Free because the guy at the bicycle shop was nice ). It's still "cogs" and "chains". The lecturer said it was more advertising-based and the shot contradicted itself because there's a feminine bracelet with a bunch of masculine cogs in the shot. I'm not sure if that was a good or bad feedback. I'm alright with the shot because I thought I had to have an absolute ugly shot of cogs & chains in my folio. The idea matters alot to me but for the lecturer, he kind of wants to see technical abilities ( like highlights and the handling of lighting for metal ) so maybe I didn't do so well in that sense. :(


This is the sheet film. The above shot was the polaroid just to check on exposure. The sheet film is the final piece and in color. Ignore the harshness in the middle of the composition. I had to hold the film up against light.

Our next assignment is "my desk" and it can be anyone's desk. It'll be interesting and I've yet to think of ideas. The boys wondered what would the lecturer say if they brought in a black dildo and KY jelly. (-_-") I hope they don't really intend to do that.

Heavenly Forest

Last night, I watched this a movie called "Heavenly Forest" or "Tada Kimi wo Aishiteru". It was a really sweet movie. Bawled my eyes out and it felt great.



The story is about a quirky, quiet girl; Shizuru who makes friends with a boy; Makoto in college. Makoto loves photography and she picks it up in order to be close to him. He, on the other hand is besotted with another beautiful girl in college but still cares for Shizuru. One day, she requests for a kiss because she wants to take a picture of them kissing for a photo competition. He then realizes he's in love with her. On the same day, she decides to disappear from his life...

Okay okay, I wrote a bad sypnosis but that's why I'm a photographer and not a writer. (-_-")



Initially, I bought the DVD in hopes that I would get inspired to shoot more. Did it work? Yeah, it did because it taught me no matter how tough studying photography is, we should never forget the one most important thing; we love to shoot.

This course is teaching me to make the right decision and snap; you wait and you'll only see your results the next day. Highly stressful if you have to hand up work the next day.

I'm going off the topic, as usual.

I love how Shizuru shot pictures of Makoto. I've always intended to shoot a fucking awesome black and white portrait ( because B&W film is just so filled with emotions ) of Marionette, blow it fucking big and mount it in our living room. It'll be good if he can incorporate his work which is design into it. That's one of the things I like about me and Marionette being together; we understand creativity and somehow, it makes us work as one. Argh, mushy stuff. Sorry.

For the official website of Heavenly Forest, click here.

Kio!

While on the way to David Jones, Ravin and I saw a very peculiar sight.

"Are you serious? Is that a teddy bear?" he asked, stopping.

He says "are you serious?" or "seriously?" alot when he doesn't believe things. Joyi has this thing where he'll laugh then takes a deep breath and goes "ahhhh, you're killing me". It's amazing how you know your friends quite well over a period of two months. (-_-") I won't even get into the disgusting habits Joyi has. Argh.

Anyway, back to the story. We saw this:-


How cute is that?! Honestly...how fucking cute is that? Furthemore, it's a manly, dirty truck! Maybe the driver's son stuck a teddy bear in the front. Or maybe, he ran over some kid and the teddy bear got caught in there. :(


Once again, how cute is that?!!

Hmm. I shot a roll in 2 hours, sent it to be processed. Something tells me it's going to come back screwed up.

We're having this conspiracy theory that we're stuck in a bit of bad luck. Joyi had his camera batteries die on him, I'm having trouble with my processed film and currently, bad luck's on Ravin's side with his studio shoot.

"Maybe somebody wants to be part of our group but we rejected them, unconsciously. Now, we're cursed..." I told Ravin.

"We're not that cool, you know."

"I know, but what else can explain our bad luck!?"

Soooo, yeap, I think my film's gonna come out screwed. I'm prepared for it. Totally.

Canon Marionette

I complained to Ravin about what happened with my film earlier. He said:

"Maybe God just doesn't want you to use Leica anymore. He wants you to use Canon."

(-_-") What the hell...

Anyway, we both came to a conclusion I've just been having a bit of bad luck with the Leica. Light leak, film problems, etc. I'm sure God supports Leica too. *Stares up at ceiling*

But then again, maybe not...because tonight, my Canon lens came! God's showing me a sign? I mounted the lens on and fiddled with it. Ahh, it feels so good to have auto-focus. It was like magic..! Seriously. If you've been manually focusing this whole time, you'll know what I mean.

Canon EOS1N:-


This is like Marionette.

Leica R6:


This is like me.

Together:-


Don't they look like a couple? Muahahaha.

Well, obviously the p&s camera is Lil' Ori. I can't take a picture of all three together but it'll be so cute. I'm obviously going nutters here. Must be because of my recent run of bad luck. But honestly, don't you see the resemblence of a couple? ;)

I'm going to use 'Canon Marionette' this weekend. Can't wait! I hope he's a powerful baby! Muahaha. Okay, time to sleep. Studio shoot tomorrow. I just spent an hour polishing bicycle gears ( and wallowing in self pity while I get high on metal polish ).

P/S: Ravin is officially champion of the world because it is now 3.30 am; he just woke up to start on his work. But he's crazy, he always gets fantastic studio shots. I don't know how that idiot does it.

P/P/S: I can't stop looking/ touching 'Canon Marionette'. I want to sleep with 'him' tonight!! Muahahahah. *Wink*Nudge*

A Very Bad Day

I am now looking at my color transparencies which came back from processing. The guy told me I had over-exposed my whole roll. He mentioned that I had perhaps did my incident reading, wrongly. I smiled at him, took my roll home and checked my camera settings to see if I had changed my ISO settings.

It was at the right ISO setting.

I sat down on my bed and thought about what I could have messed up on:

1. Incident reading
2. ISO setting

Okay, I know this sounds conceited of me to say so but I've been doing incident reading with my folio shots for some time now. How dare the guy at the store said I probably did my incident reading wrongly. Let's entertain the fact that I am indeed the world's biggest idiot and read my light meter completely wrong. I still did bracketing ( meaning there are 3 shots per composition - 1 correct exposure, 1 slightly under and 1 slightly over ). The whole roll came out 1 - 1 1/2 stops over exposed. Furthermore, I even did one TTL reading per composition. Come on, even if I'm super retarded, the TTL reading can't be that fucking off. It's said that the Leica has a pretty accurate TTL reading when it comes to exposure. And I've shot plenty of stuff relying on my TTL reading ( ok, let's hope the lecturer doesn't ever know that ).

Argh. I'm so pissed.

Is there such a thing as them processing it 1 stop over? Because I know we can push or pull our film sheets 1 stop over, etc.

I'm so mad that I feel like crying. I really had some potential folio shots in that roll. And now, I've to spend more time in prepping, setting up everything and re-shooting it.

I know I sound like a wimp right now. I'm frustrated not because I feel like the world is ending. I'm frustrated because I hate it when mistakes happen. Especially when procedures were followed and there's a possibility that someone else fucked up your roll.

Time is running out. I have so much work to do. I hate the fact that I'm already two months into the course, and yet mistakes still happen. Furthermore, I don't know whose mistake is it. At least if I know what went wrong, it'll be okay because I can learn from it.

It feels like you're in a maze, you need to get out but no matter how many times you try, you're still in the fucking maze.

Flowers & Mushrooms

A low-res version I shot with the p&s camera. I shot variation shots with R6 ( I figured his name should just be R6 ). The p&s camera shall just be called G7 and EOS 1N will be 1N. So my babies are R6, 1N and G7. The names don't sound too affection, do they? Hmm. I should call them Marionette, Misheru and Ori Junior. Hah, I'm obviously entertaining myself with my babbling.

I'll probably need a blue filter for the mushroom shots. Everything's going to come out yellow but I'll run the composition through with the lecturer. I'll shoot them again tomorrow with daylight.

She rejected some of my shots ( which I think were common shots of the 'world' ) last week. She said that I could do better and I've showed her better stuff the previous week. She asked me to be more confident with my design sense and use that because I have an eye for 'subtlety'. Everything sounded so deep and I was like "uhhh, okay." Now I'm kind of wishing she didn't see design in my previous work. What the hell does an eye for 'subtlety' mean?! I figured that she meant I could deal with delicate photographs because she liked my delicate series with the moss.

So, here I am again - with mushrooms and flowers? The flowers are actually super tiny and I plucked them and placed them on the mushrooms.

I believe in trying to create a trademark in one's work. When I shoot, I always try to place in a bit of feminity in my work. Okay, sometimes I fail big time. I'm still working on it. I'm hoping this shot has a bit of feminity in it? And also a certain sense of delicacy? I can see the puny flowers wailing, "help usss...we're so fragile and dying!". But then again, maybe it's because I can really see they're dying. They're starting to stink too. My brother is complaining that he loses his apetite when he gets a whiff of them in the kitchen. (-_-") He doesn't understand for photography, one has to sacrifice!

Marionette better know how to deal with me having stinky flowers and weird props when he's here in July. *Waves fist*

Point & Shoot

I feel restless. Argh, I hate being moody. Period cramps. Ouch.


Over-expose.


Under-expose.

I got so bored, I played with the point & shoot camera. Over here they call compact cameras "point & shoot camera". Makes it sound smarter than "dummy camera". It's no fun shooting with the p&s camera. I prefer my R6 now. *Hugs R6* I shall give him a name, soon.

Crap, I'm bored. I think I'll go to sleep soon. I want to go to Chinatown tomorrow and eat dim sum with my cousins. Yum.

Sparta!!!

I watched 300 at Imax just now. It was awesome!! I thought I would hate it but I ended up loving it. I gasped, almost cried and was sad when it ended. It seemed so short...it should've been a longer movie!

I took a shot of some Greek soldiers when there was a parade some time ago. How fitting. It was from the back and I have some better shots but I didn't scan them in. I think if the boys saw these soldiers after the movie, they would have screamed "Spartaaaa!!!" and ran in to join the parade; leaving me mortified and embarrassed.



Watching 300 made me miss my own king so I called Marionette on the way home. He posted a picture for me to see his new haircut. I like it! Apparently, (if )ians now dress up on Fridays? That is very adorable. :) Not to mention very exciting.

Ben and Marionette as triad members. Any chance Marionette is going to dress up as a Spartan? Maybe use make-up like King Xerxes? Hee hee. That's a very direct hint to you, b. Spartaaaaaa!!

I posted a small picture because if I posted a hugeeee picture, I'm sure they'd kill me. Also, Oppa mentioned that he got his hair cut. I'm imagining a pineapple head. Why is everyone chopping off their hair?!

Oh yes, dear friends; I'll be back in June!! I finish on the 7th and I'm giving myself a couple of days to shop before heading back to KL. I'm looking forward to meeting everyone again. I've missed you guys so much! Holidayyyyyy!

Disney's Latest Campaign

Recently, Disney Parks has commissioned Annie Leibovitz to shoot a series of photographs to launch their "Year of a Million Dreams" celebration. Celebrities were featured as Disney characters in this series.


Sleeping Beauty
Where Imagination Saves The Day
David Beckham as Prince Charming, slaying the dragon Malificent.


Cinderella
Where Every Cinderella Dream Comes True
Scarlett Johansson running out of the palace, leaving behind her glass slipper. Her Harry Winston tiara is worth $325,000!


Alice in Wonderland
Where Wonderland Is Your Destiny
Beyonce Knowles ( Alice ), Lyle Lovett ( March Hare ) and Oliver Platt ( Mad Hatter ) spinning in a teacup.


Annie Leibovitz herself in the Harry Winston tiara and glass slipper in the background.

Isn't it fantastic!? This is such a highly-profiled campaign. World famous client, world famous photographer and world famous celebrities as talents. Apparently, there will be more to be shot soon. Can't wait!

Me

I'm starting to not look like me. Which is pissing me off. I look ( and feel ) messy and tired all the time. I don't know how to shoot with a crappy digital camera anymore. It feels wrong to leave everything to auto-focus. Even with auto-focus, the pictures come out blur. I'm so pissed off.

I miss Marionette. Even though he's an idiot and he pisses me off, I wish he was here. :(

Annnd, I've put up stuff on my wall. My room sucks because it's too small and it's depressing. My photoshop sucks too. It de-saturates all my pictures so badly. I'll need to ask the lecturer what's happening with my color profiles.



Pictures of Marionette and Ori will be up there soon!

Intangible

I know what I want to take but I don't know where I can find them. It shouldn't be that way, should it? Usually, I'd walk around and take a picture of something I think is nice. However, I've been walking around this area for a couple of days and I don't find what I'm looking for.

I am stressed. I need to go to the countryside. I want to take unconventional, beautiful pictures of the sun rays and the color green & yellow.

I have an idea for my portraiture shots. The bad part is nobody wants to be my models. How can a photographer shoot portraiture shots with no models? I wish my friends are here. I'd know which sin would suit them perfectly. We could make it work.

Today's a sunny day. Maybe I'll lug my stuff to the beach? The colors should be beautiful.

I miss my parents, sisters, Marionette, my girlfriends and even Oppa. It feels like there's no support and love here. At all. It's alright, I'll continue feeding my own fire.

P/S: Good news will be arriving in Melbourne though. Dad will be sending a new pair of lens for my Canon body. It's going to be my first time using the Canon EOS 1N. It's an old model but I don't mind working with old cameras. Even my Leica is really old. It's a heritage from my father to me. Shooting with 2 cameras will be able to increase my productivity ( I hope ). Can't wait for the new lens and flash unit.

Shopping at Polo

Left: At work, working for the father
Right: At home, cooking for the husband

Meet the future me. Ha ha. Shopping was good. I didn't buy the wife blouse because it was slightly big around the shoulders and sleeves. I saved money by buying a kid sized Polo long-sleeved shirt! Yes..!

Cow On A Tree

By the harbour, there lies a cow on a tree. I was disappointed when I got to the harbour because the position of the sun was not where I wanted it to be. It would be a better shot if the sun was behind the cow. That way, you can see the radius of gradient around the cow. I'll try this shot again.

Twin Sinks

I stumbled across this when I was on the rooftop of RMIT. The boys were having a fashion shoot and when I swung the toilet doors open, I was gleeful to find a pair of twin sinks staring back at me.

"Why hello," I grinned, rushing back out to take my camera.

No one understood why I took pictures of the twin sinks. But I did. :)

Lovely Complex.

I watched a very pleasant Japanese love comedy last night. The colors were great. It was very...Japanese? I was inspired by the colors and overall mood.

Autumn Time.

Autumn is here. The leaves are shedding. It's sad yet beautiful.

Beautiful Moss.

Outside on my balcony, there is a little moss patch growing.

Floating.

The birds were floating in the air, unable to fly forward because of the strong wind. It was a peculiar sight.

The Color Red.

Eating strawberries with chopsticks.

Monochrome.

There're holes in my pepper!