Showing posts with label model. Show all posts
Showing posts with label model. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 21, 2023

Gundam Model Collection for Treasure Tuesday

 


Once upon a time, I was so obsessed with Gundam models. The animation series is always a one-year saga comprising more than 70 episodes at a time. It is mainly about intergalactic war focusing on the sadness of war by promoting the killing machines Gundam. 


I had a huge collection of them and I still kept some of them til this day.


Sony A7RIV

FE 135mm f1.8 GM


Linking Treasure Tuesday





Saturday, May 3, 2014

2008 Shoot: St Kilda Pier


I shot this at 2008. Accidentially discovered this photo today. I used Pentax gear back these days. FA 31mm ltd.

Saturday, February 8, 2014

High key Studio Shot


One of my high key work on a real estate agent :)

Sunday, September 29, 2013

Jemma - my first paid shoot in 2002


So nostalgic about this shoot. This was my first paid shoot and it ended up on a local chain store newsletter. A lot of blown highlights and ugly distracting background. But it reminds me the try hard I was once to be

Sunday, December 19, 2010

Natasha


This image is taken by Canon EF 24mm f1.4 L at f1.4

It is always a challenge to photograph someone who needs to be placed in the most comfortable state. It takes that mutual understanding between subject and photographer as well as the total trust. Yet, it is really about getting a female subject to flirt with the camera.

Hang on, flirt with camera? a metal alloy object?

It sounds like a fetish already. It is just so hard to look into a dark hollow space through a lens. Yet, behind that lens, there is a sensor that allows a million possibilities how the image would be rendered, edited and distributed. So that thought of uncertainty is enough to freak the subject out.

So everytime I heard a friend's friend needing a portrait done. I went, "No thanks. Find someone else who is a womaniser."

My average time to get a satisfactory portrait on a stranger is often requiring a minimum of 30 minute crap shoots. Until the sound of clicking and myself as a photographer becoming less intimidating, the tension in subject's facial muscles would reduce and the atmosphere of the portrait shoot becomes more casual. This is in deed hard work. Yet, trying to find something in common to chat is really a tiresome but important task.

So why is it so daunting to do portrait business for living? It is not just for good looks and visual satisfaction. It is all about social skill exhaustion...

Now my whining session finishes. Heading back to work! Beeeeeeeeeeee !!!!

Roe