Swee

Location Imaging 102
Portraiture Brief: "Swee Cher"
Reflector - to fill shadow on face.

No More Milk!

Location Imaging 102
Portraiture Brief: "Self Portrait #1"
1 flash - side lit

Chubby Asian Pixie

New hair, new chubbiness. Argh, whatever...

Still thinking if I should go platinum blonde. Maybe. Two more weeks to decide.

Lemons

Location Imaging 102
Portraiture Brief: "Self Portrait #2"
2 flashes - color and lighting on face.

Meh...don't really like this one all that much but I found the lighting interesting. Lecturer mentioned it was good clean lighting.

Bus Stop

For landscape series, I shot 10 images of shadows, architecture and linear lines. I didn't feel architecture all that much because it seemed so dead. Therefore, I incorporated shadows in to give the images more life.


Location Imaging 102
Landscape Brief - "The Conjunction"

Superclub

Went to Superclub. It wasn't as happening as the last time.







I am getting fat over the holidays!! :( I'll be coming home in 2 weeks or so. Foodddd!! *Pauses* No, food's what's getting me in trouble now..!

1st Year Is Over!!

Everything's done! I had my assessment on Monday. Haven't been sleeping much since Friday. Because Ravin helped me with mine, I helped him out. He just went off to assessment and I'm having a cold beer.

It's amazing how much weight I can put on; being trapped at home working on paperwork. I had to keep eating to keep awake. When I put on my jeans on Monday, it was tight! Dammit!!!

But anyways, I have 3 high distinctions and 1 credit for this test I didn't study for. Everything's pretty cool. Never thought I'd end up with HDs. It's cool. :) I'm off to clean my room now and tonight's our exhibition. Pictures to come!

P/S: I can't believe I'm done with 1st year..! Feels like such a fast tracked journey.

Conceptual: Simple Beauty

For our conceptual brief, we are free to do anything we want as long as it's a series of 10 images. I chose to shoot still life; entitled "Simple Beauty". Basically, I find certain parts of kitchenware and shoot them to make them look graphic or beautiful. These items are everyday items and are really simple.

In order to this, I take different kitchenware and study them for a bit. There are different characteristics to each kitchenware. I had to know how well it was crafted, how it reacted to light and try to visualize storytelling my concept through these objects.


Location Imaging 102
Conceptual Brief - "Simple Beauty: Cheese Grater"

This is a cheese grater. Since it was made out of stainless steel, I knew it was very reflective and reacted well to sunlight. I placed it on a beanbag and shot this; playing with shapes and lines.

Solitary Fork

This semester, we have to shoot black and white folio. We develop it ourselves; with chemicals and such. 10 folio pieces are needed.

One low key folio piece:-


Location Imaging 102
BW Brief - Low Key

I shot this at home with a piece of paper as background. The good thing about black and white is the fact that you can shoot with any kind of light. It doesn't matter if it's warm or cold light.

Portraiture

Folio is done! I've got two more portraits to be presented tomorrow. I hope they get approved...!!! I've gotten back all my scans to be printed out ( 10 color and 10 black & white ones ).

It's all paperwork from here onwards. Monday will be the day! :(

This is a portrait I took of Ravin. I asked him if I should print this and he said no. He hates having his picture taken. I did it anyway and this is my scan:-


Location Imaging 102
Portraiture Brief

I shot this at 4 am in the morning. Ravin and I were both so tired but I'm glad it came out alright. Will put more work up later on.

Countdown

It's all coming to an end soon! Assessment is next week. Hopefully, tonight will be my last shoot. I've got to go develop film soon and then shoot a pair of twins. There's a test tomorrow! No one is studying. We're all going to fail!

Printing, mounting and retouching to be done over the next few days. And paperwork, paperwork, paperwork!!!



Kozyndan are coming! It's just on Elizabeth Street. I don't know if I can make it on Friday; that's the opening night of their exhibition and book signing is on Saturday. Ravin surprised me with a pack of Kozyndan postcards on Monday night. He likes Kozyndan too so I split the postcards with him.

5 more days to go. I hope I make it to next semester!!

Beautiful Sky

Last Thursday, the sky was fucking awesome. Assisted Ravin on the rooftop. The sky looks so much better on his color transparency.

Today, I did a self portrait. I wore a blue sundress and my white Converse sneakers in Ravin's backyard. I had milk cartons around me and I poured milk into ( not really ) a glass on the ground. The weather froze me with milk splashing onto my legs. I tried to make myself look somewhat weird; with the skinny legs and all. I'm worried about the focusing because my camera is adjusted to my eye and this time, Ravin did the focusing for me. Eeep.

I'm into weird portraits as of lately. I like my subject matters just staying still; gazing into the camera. None of those smiling portraits for me.



I'm dying of stress. Help, help, help.

P/S: Him and her black bands are hot. Subtle but hot.

I Am

So I think I'm prepared to talk a bit about my life. I've been going through some personal struggle with photography, priorities and life. Marionette and I broke up a while ago. It's a little too personal to talk about why we broke up.

I am at a place where I question my capabilities, priorities and goals in life. Where do I want to be? Am I working hard enough in life? What are my priorities? I've always thought I'd be together with Marionette for a long time. One minute, you have this life plan and the next, it just dissolves. You then realize you have to change your life plan.

Am I out of my comfort zone? I am. Very much so. Sometimes, I wonder if I'm doing the right thing. I keep thinking I'm not working hard enough. I've been distracted as of recently. I need to get my priorities checked in line. Again.

I've been through a fair bit of frustration in the past few weeks. Studio sessions are going down the drain. I was working quite hard to build a proper studio folio and the last 3-4 sessions are just fucking crap. I am so mad at myself. Why the hell am I just shooting crap?

I am stressed. I know I put myself through this amount of stress. My rationale's like this - you only have 1 life; you make the best of it. I need to think a bit more, work a little bit more.

Everything, everything, everything.

Godskitchen 2007: II

I just returned from Ravin's place and received some pictures from Terence. We went through last night's pictures. Those boys are such girls. They made me take down some pictures from Facebook because they looked silly.

These are pictures taken with Terence's phone:-


My blue sweater which is now gone forever. Sigh.


This is a pretty cool shot of us. It's as though we're up to no good but we still have time to take a picture.


I have really scary eyeballs!


This is me snapping away at Godskitchen.


Rawr.

I'm separating my entries on Godskitchen. I can't believe the amount of videos and pictures I took in one night.

Godskitchen 2007

So I did end up going for Godskitchen last night. I went with Ravin and Terence ( who's also from Singapore ) and met up with the cousins at the arena.


Ravin and Terence.


In RMIT's ladies toilet. All of us had to pee and we ended up chilling in the toilet. Please note my blue sweater. I placed aside mine and Ravin's jackets - someone stole this blue sweater of mine. :(


Ravin underexposed this shot on purpose. I'm not too sure of his intention. Look and feel, I suppose.


Terence is grouchy.


We had to take a tram down and flag a cab from Fed Square.


The self timer function in the camera is pretty handy. The boys were freezing because they dressed really down for the rave. Terence didn't even wear a jacket and Ravin wore shorts because jeans would be hard to dance in.


Godskitchen 2007. This was the main arena that we were in. There were thousands and thousands of people ( on the dance floor and sitting around ).


And the night started...


Check out the laser show!


Awesome...!


My favourite one!!!!!


Then the boys started kissing each other. -_-


They met up with Suresh from Singapore.


Middle of Godskitchen. I think this was about 3 plus in the morning.


The dj was spinning up there.


Met up with Abel and Mandy.


The rest of Mandy's friends; Denise and Lin.


My cousins; Joe and Jing.


I actually fell asleep while we were sitting down. This was at 5 plus in the morning. The boys were like "you can actually fall asleep during Godskitchen!?". Heh, sorry. Look at how tired I was!


It finally ended at 7am. We were mostly on the dance floor; I was pretty amazed we actually lasted till 7 in the morning.


The place was filthy with water bottles. Ooo look, a pink fairy...


...and a guy who stripped down to his underwear...


...and Papa Smurf too!!!


When we stepped out; it was bright and sunny. Our eyes hurt. My eyes were so dry.


Lying on the grass because we couldn't flag a cab back to the city.


I fell asleep for a few minutes. This is my pink glow band which Mandy gave me during the rave. Damn auto focusing. The camera auto focused on the branches instead of the pink band.


The boys were silly; they wanted to stay there for a while. Not me. I poked Ravin on the back and told him I wanted to leave so we did. Heh.


There was a marathon this morning. Look at these 3 people. Basically they were running on the spot and cheering the runners on.

I'll post videos from Godskitchen soon! The laser shows were awesome. I don't know if I can do this again next year. 7 hours straight up raving?! My knee caps hurt when I stepped out of the arena. Not from shuffling but from standing. -_- I'm getting too old for this.

Decisions

It's happening tonight! Now I'm deciding if I want to go. I thought I'd be really far behind in folio; that's why I didn't buy tickets. Hmmm. It's going to go on till 7 in the morning. The cousins are going, Ravin is going...should I go? I don't even know if I can get a ticket if I go there.



Decisions, decisions, decisions...

Hippie Color

Ravin working on his conceptual shoot; which is super cool with some technical requirements. He loves colors and seriously, he's just a hippie. Joyi, Daniel, Mark and Flanegan were posing for him. I was there as the super trusty assistant. :P

We all need to pick up the speed on the folio. It's due in 3 weeks' time. I can't wait till the holidays! It's going to be super sweet. I'm looking forward to some plans. :) Tee hee.