Hello! Thank you to those of you who gave me feedback. 🙂 On to this week’s happenings!
Monday: Photoshoot with Flux, a group of hair stylists. I met James, from Reactive Creative, and his younger sister, who was probably the second youngest person there (me, as usual, being the youngest). She was also on summer break, like me, and studying for her master’s degree. They both spoke English fairly well, and although I did not get business cards, I consider it a step forward! The models seemed to be more amateur, as they required more direction and did not fill the usual model mold. The outfits shared the color of black. The models stood on a rotating platform, which was also a really cool and simple idea to get different angles without having to shift the pose too much. However, what intrigued me the most were the other cameramen, or rather, a specific method they used. There were two videographers and one photographer (beside the main one, with whom I assist) who were doing behind-the-scenes shoots. By holding thick pieces of colored/shaped plexiglass (or some lighter type of transparent, shatter-resistant material) in front of the lens, they could manipulate light to blur or mirror the images. Perhaps it’s just an old trick used before Photoshop existed – but still, truly fascinating. I really want to try this on my own sometime.
Tuesday: Another hair photoshoot, this time with Peter(?). The videographer used a Canon Mark II with a Hasselblad lens (o_O). In comparison with Flux, this set of hair styles were more exaggerated, and, for the most part, big. This lighting setup required the use of colored sheet filters taped over the lamps. Each model (who, by the way, definitely looked the part) had two colors. Hopefully my little illustration [below] clarifies things a bit. Click it for a larger image.
[update]: I forgot to add that the back two lights also had large honeycombs.
Both hair shoots took over 12 hours, including hair/make-up time. I actually went home earlier on Tuesday, around midnight, before we shot the last and fourth model, as the MRT/busses stop running around 11:30pm; the rest of the people at the studio finished at approximately 4am. Yeah, I think I missed out.
Wednesday: Cyndi Wang, Taiwanese pop singer/actress for Skechers. Much more conventional and typical, cutesy, back-to-school type of commercial, in my opinion.
Thursday: I helped clean up the studio a bit. It builds character, so I hear.
Did I not tell you that this week would be busier? 😀