Dragonboat Profile Picture Trial

Last week my Dragonboat coach asked me to take pictures of the Dragonboat team. I had to get some test shots for him before we actually do the whole team. So I took one of my teammates (who happens to be the webmaster of our team website Rye-D-Boat). I wanted him specifically cause he had a set design for the website (REALLY good job on his side).

We sat down and jotted ideas of the design he had in mind, and how I could make my photos match his style. These are what we handed in to the Captain.






And for fun, I added one of our team logo's to my favourite of the set.



Now I'm just waiting for my Captain and webmaster to choose, and I will be doing the whole team when ready.

Ideas we had for the Website
Style 1
- We all wear our team uniform
- All left side paddlers will take their pictures looking at their right
- While all right side paddlers will take their pictures looking at their left
- With this we will make 2 columns on the website so that each side of the boat is looking at each other.
- Captains will be on top either looking triumphant or down on the team (to show their significance).
Style 2
- We can just use standard headshot profiles and be like all other dragonboat teams
Style 3
- You can give me some ideas for this ;) lol

Sorry for being late with this post sakaigirl >_<.

Chris and Ellie Quick Photoshoot

Today I hung out with my best friend Chris and his girlfriend Ellie. We hung out for a couple of hours, and also asked if I could take photos of him. I agreed but only at sunset cause I wanted to practice more at sunset. After playing Resident Evil 5, we totally missed the sunset and had literally 5 mins left. I did what I can and this is what came up. (Thanks Ellie for being patient with us playing video games with you lol, it was Chris' fault!)






-Note about #5, I lost a lot of detail on Chris' jacket because I didn't have a second strobe. I used the on camera flash at a very low power to prevent shadows. The rest I fixed the exposure on Chris in photoshop.

Things I Learned
- Go earlier if you want sunset pics lol. (duh!)
- Need more strobes to properly light photos.
- Figuring out poses for the models are hard.
- Tree's are annoying and get in your way.
- Making the eyes 'pop' using Photoshop is harder than I thought

It's Been a While

I haven't updated this blog in almost a year (just one month short). I don't know why, but now I'm going to keep this updated as much as I can. I've learned a lot about photography in the year, and decided to focus on people photography with the strobist technique. I've updated my side links to show websites/blogs that I visit frequently. I've learned a lot from those websites and hopefully some people can too. So far I've had good progress in my photography and I just want to show some of them right now.