Jul
20
Dolls Shoot!
This shoot was shot at The Pinnacle@duxton. As the usual guy to recon for places to shoot. this place is almost perfect. It gave a strong sense of that heavy urban atmosphere, dark corners and corridors. And a backup indoor shoot area, just in case. Well, it rained most of the time when we were shooting. Most of the stuff were shot indoors.
The character was Rami Aikawa, cosplayed by Geri, an officer of the special unit in the manga Dolls. Cosplayers are quite easy to shoot. That’s because they have poses for reference from their respective manga or anime. That’s lots of posing material and artistic conceptual information to review before going into a shoot. A note to self: look around more often and take note of ulu places for those perfect last minute photoshoots. Keep a mapped notebook even.
Set the date and time. Then we are all set! One of the few things we have learnt is to be flexible. Really flexible. Things changes, this fails, that cannot. Try to adapt. What went wrong. Find a better way to do it, and rejoice!? Models have to adapt, change their ways to fit into the concept. Photographers have to think ahead and plan and shoot what’s next. Planning is important >.< Yet, we still do most of the stuff impromptu >.<
Personally, I would prefer to do landscape shots than portrait shots. It’s just me. It feels right just at home when I go for horizontal composition. Gotta go work on those portrait shots some day. On the other hand, MJ can really do great portrait shots. We sort of balance the shooting styles somehow.
If you need to jam something for a photoshoot, do it and get away with it.
Posing at the lift.
The rest are here!