A little of what I've been doing this holiday, in non-chronological order.
Before Prom, a period in my life that was suddenly interesting after O levels finished. (Damnit, i worry over the results every now and then. ROAR)
This is the Changi T3 photoshoot by Andy, where I had 3 costumes to switch!
This one is rented for quite a considerable sum, from Talent House, for a day.
The next one is SQ Girl uniform, and the last is a cool red stretchy spinny dress.
Facebook is helping to store the photos.
Btw, unlike some who use Facebook to connect, meet new ppl, chat, and show off their active-ness on their own Walls, my Facebook is a slave to forever carry the burden of my many photos that i need to store online! Bwahahaha!
Okay.
The photoshoot was fun, because it was my first one where I could totally do crazy things like splits and whatnot (New Face spreads in New Paper DO NOT encourage overtly mad poses)
What I love about being infront of the camera is what a fun challenge it is. It doesn't look tough, or particularly brain-juice-wasting to take not-bad photos, but it actually needs alot more than a good body to start out with.
NOTE : please do not think i am flattering myself, i'm saying in generic terms. besides, i have yet gotten used to my own face due to lack to looking at it in mirrors, & when i saw the photos for this photoshoot i was like, Did i really look like this three weeks ago??
Taking good photos needs you to
1) Know thyself. Be sure of exactly what angles make you look good and what make you look great. Have eyebags? Then you got to learn how to tilt your chin that much toward the sky so that the light falls onto it perfectly.
2) Know your background. Literally. Imagine things from the photog's POV and think deep and hard, what would be a cool image?
3) RELAX. Hesitation, self-consciousness, physical discomfort all show clearly in your eyes, your facial muscles, etc., if you don't make the effort to transform them.
4) Use your inner mute. That is, communicate with your eyes, your face and obviously, your bordey. (Haha, body!) Many models speak highly of Flirting With Your Eyes, and it's so so so difficult.
I'd write more, but the battery looks dangerously low.
I'm glad the photos turned out good.
Last one : ANYONE CAN TAKE GREAT PHOTOSHOOTS! Lots of people have, and you don't have to be gorgeous or fatally stunning either. Just arm yourself with a dazzling smile that speaks of inane amounts of confidence and BOOMZ!
(sorry, i know ris low is very old joke already. i still haven't watched her videos yet tho. hah!)
this was this afternoon, 11 Dec, Friday.
i'm suddenly tired, not going to type much more.
SENTOSA IS FANTASTIC. Damnit, i'm going to go there with or without company the next time i have enough library books.
The sea is so fine and cold, the sand is so blastingly hot (HOT, not warm), and the tanning is fantastically great.
Right now my chest is lobster red, my hands are brown and wrinkly (WTH.) and my legs are the shade of mocha (can't use the word Brown again) that I want.
oh yes oh yes oh yes.
but tanning is bad for your skin cells, so i shall only do it to get cool bikini tan lines.
i don't know about you, but i'm totally into bikini tan lines. they're amusing to me, & i like to see the stark contrast of skin tone.
but thou shalt not burn!
after 4 years of being in drama and going to subsidized plays, i have watched the best play in my life when my aunt got tickets from her company. (but its not OCBC)
yippee!
and because it's a company event, we got to eat a yummy buffet! being the day-after-we-got-back-from-cruising, my cousins, aunt, mommy & myself were kinda buffet experts already.
so we whacked it!
hehe. there were yummy x'mas cookies and totally sweet mango puree with aloe vera and white pears.
anyway, that's besides the point. the point being how great the show was.
chua en lai is damn funny as a bimbo!
karen tan reminds me of cheryl lim with her I Know What I'm Doing 'Cos I'm Yo Mama vibe!
and the sound effects were great!
(this is what people who do Sound in drama for 4 years, not acting or anything, notice.)
(feel the pain here people?)