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52 Weeks of Her – Weeks 11, 12 & 13

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Once again, it’s been a while since I’ve updated on this project. It’s not because we haven’t been taking photos, it’s just that I have been procrastinating – which I should really stop doing when it comes to updating this site. So let’s get on to these 3 awesome photos!

Week 11

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This was done more than a about a month or so ago. Doesn’t this just remind you of the memorable Power Rangers’ Morphin Time? (Oh, I’d totally be the pink ranger.) Once again, this is more of an artistic shot rather than a pretty shot. No idea why he doesn’t let me look pretty in photos.

I complained that the blurred version of me could be improved. My hair was messy, I look like a total idiot but FP told me that nobody really cares about the blurred part of the photo. Well I care, but oh well. I guess the focus is really more on the image on the foreground, embedded into the iphone.

The lighting is awesome don’t you think? There’s a bit of a music video feel to it. Pretty cool. Well it has to be cool when I get raving comments from my friends in Facebook when I made it my profile picture for a few weeks!

Week 12

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This was one photoshoot that I really enjoyed. The background is so pretty in some of my favourite colours, it’s really amazing. Yes in this photo, the attention should be given to the background rather than to *cough* me.

He made me shake my head left and right for quite awhile (as compared to up and down for the original hair-o-graphy shoot) while he captured all the “glamourous”, tiny movements. Most turned out okay, but some photos could be used as blackmail.

He chose this shot to be the “official” photo for week 12. On the other hand, I had other ideas of what was the photo of the week:

Doesn’t this just look like a shampoo ad? You can just imagine the tagline, “If you don’t look good, we don’t look good” somewhere in this photo and it’ll fit perfectly. This was originally his choice for photo of the week but he changed his mind the day after. *mumbles-butilookbetterinthisone – mumbles*

In any case to be fair, the first photo is now the wallpaper of my iphone (yes narcissistic, I know) and the second one is still my facebook profile picture, and was also my twitter’s for a short while)

Week 13

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This must be the first photo in this project in which you can’t “see” me, but it’s still awesome because who can resist a pretty pink gebera? (yes, it’s real!) All I had to do was stand there and hold the flower. For once I didn’t have to worry how I look, haha.

But this is certainly one of our favourite photos so far. There’s a soothing feeling when you look at it, and the colours seem to complement one another really well. I really think that this photo speaks volumes. Plus, it’s a personal preference for me to like things that are white and clean, with a splash of colour. So this really hit the spot.

Till the next time we take photos! :)

52 Weeks of Her – Weeks 9 & 10

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Wow, it’s been awhile since I’ve posted anything on this project. Well we are back from the long hiatus and there’s some changes. For starters, it’s now 52 Weeks of Her instead of 50 Weeks of Her (making it rounded to one year sounds better) and FP has gotten himself some awesome new equipment. What equipment? I have no idea. But let’s get on with the photos for Weeks 9 and 10:

Week 9

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This was done a few weeks back. I was so excited when he showed me the military hat and put it on immediately. I have a liking for all sorts of weird headgear (well wait till u see the photo for week 10, lol). Thankfully that day I wore a jacket that can pass off as a military jacket, since this shoot wasn’t planned beforehand.

Anyway, the concept of this photo is sort of like The Chronicles of Narnia. Open a wardrobe and finding yourself in a completely different world. In this case, it’s opening a closet and finding a completely different universe. Imagine if this really happened. Now, wouldn’t it be fun? It could be serve as a teleportation station as well. Jump right in and you’ll be in the office, something like the Floo Network in Harry Potter – oh you get my point.

The whole shoot was fun, as was the post processing :)

p/s: I absolutely love this test shot. It has an anime feel to it and finally a nice shot of my side view!

Okay onward to Week 10!

Week 10 also involves a crazy headgear which I so love! It’s like a Russian hat and it’s really adorable. I wore it even before the photoshoot started, haha!

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I forgot to mention the Kanye West glasses! This is such a goofy photo of myself. But goofy = quirky = fun! Who needs pretty photos all the time anyway, haha.

Don’t you just love the Russian hat + Kanye glassea + pouting Sha combo? It’s classic.

So, the question is: Am I really in Bali in this photo, or am I not? That’s up to you to decipher! :)

Photoshoot with Ika

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So, as I have mentioned in my previous post, we did more than one photoshoot last weekend.

My cousin, Ika, joined us for the other shoot. Pretty fun outing, it was nice having other people around during shoots.

FP captured some really awesome shots of Ika, which made the trip out worthwhile:

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I think this was his best shot for the day. All he asked her to do was pose as a rock star (lol) – well because she is a rock star ;)

I love the clouds, really pretty and picture perfect.

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On the other hand, I love this shot of Ika just laughing. There’s a very carefree quality that seems to exude from this photo. Very nice.

It seems that we laughed aplenty during the shoot:

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I really forgot what we both were laughing at for the photo above, but for the one below she was laughing at me because my face (according to her) looks hilarious. LOL.

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One last photo to pin up here:

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Please note that this isn’t really the final product. It’s a work in progress, a concept that has yet to be perfected.

I really, really like this photo. But apparently, the flaw was it would have been better if Ika had been looking up at me. We can always try again next time to perfect this concept :)

Did you see the pretty bubbles in the photo? I couldn’t stop trying to blow bubbles. I love bubbles, and for the longest time in my childhood, I thought I was a Bubble Princess. Hahahaha!

So go get a big bottle of bubble solution today ($3.90 from Kiddy Palace) and embrace your childhood once again!

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(okay, promise – this one is the final photo for this post!)

p/s: check out one uncle’s Long Fishing Rod on the right *giggle*

50 Weeks of Her – Week 4

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For this week’s shoot, I would say that it was a completely impromptu shoot, if we hadn’t spent the entire week planning and looking forward to a whole other concept.

But you know how it is sometimes. When things choose to go wrong, it goes really wrong.

The planned concept sizzled out because we couldn’t find the right props. Then we tried another, which sort of made me almost injure myself again. Funny consequence, but FP didn’t wanna risk another injury and there wasn’t enough space in our Pseudo Studio to achieve the desired effect.

So, we were lost for inspiration and so eager to fulfill our commitment to this week. Emotions went awry and if there had been a slight miscalculation in the way the planets were aligned, this week’s photo might just become a figment of our imaginations.

Yes, it almost didn’t happen. But we persevered. We dug through our memory vault of scrap ideas that we’ve had in passing and came up with the photo below. Do note that this concept had it’s misgivings and it was the concept that almost made an empty slot in the project. But it happened anyway :)

So here it is, the official shot for Week 4:

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Many versions of me, all in one photo. Makes me wish I can clone myself like this everyday, so I can be in many places at once. Do a lot of things at the same time. Wishful thinking, huh?

I thought the final results turned out pretty good and quite cute. Which brings about two lessons to this story:

1) Simple, unplanned ideas work better than elaborate, planned ones
2) We should never, ever give up when the going gets rough.

Besides, nobody said it’s going to be a breeze all the way. 50 weeks is a long time, two weeks short of a year. Things are bound to happen; inspiration will tend to die out. But that’s how we learn and become even better.

And then after 50 weeks, when we look through all the shots that we’ve created, we know that there’s a story behind every photo and every one of those stories will then be part of an epic masterpiece :)

But till then, we have to get through 46 more weeks! :P

Here’s this week’s shoot photo album in my Facebook account.

50 Weeks of Her – Week 3

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So for this week, we had to settle for an indoor shoot despite the fact that FP had planned to do some outdoorsy stuff. My ankles are not yet fully healed (sigh sigh) and we didn’t want to risk it.

And most of all, it is important to get into the momentum of weekly shoots if we want to fulfill the commitment of 50 such weeks (47 more now).

It was a pretty fun shoot, with equally fun results. The idea was that I will be a tiny person (think Thumbelina and Tom Thumb) living out of a shoe – yes like that nursery rhyme.

Well to be honest, that’s the concept that I had in my head. I’m sure it sounds different and more professional from his view point ;)

His theme in mind was “Too Big a Shoe to Fill”. See, doesn’t that sound much nicer?

So here they are: two photos from today’s photoshoot:

I prefer this photo, in contrast to the one he chose to officially represent Week 3. But he’s the Photographer, and it’s his project.. so it’s his call. I still love this anyway hehe :D It took some time for him (with the slightest help from me) to decide which pose to use and to position where.

And below is the shot that he chose to represent Week 3. For this photo, it was all him. Once again, I wish he’d chosen a photo where I am smiling pretty. But according to him, in compliance to his chosen theme, this expression suits better.

Wanna know what the actual shots look like before I was manipulated into a tiny person?

Here you go! Behind the scenes of this week’s shoots:

I absolutely love the shot below. We both do actually. It was the first pose we chose to implement. But turned out, the other shot suited the theme better. :)

Looking back at these week’s photos, I’m very excited about the next 47 weeks. I totally adore this week’s photos and the unique concept. Can I be a character in a pop-up book next, FP? :P

Stay tuned for next week’s shoot!