About Me

London
I studied at Canterbury Christ University. I am doing a BA Hons Photography. I like to photos of still life and people.

Monday 22 August 2011

My idol is Kyuhyun Choi


I studied photography to achieve my dream , to be a traveling photographer, but to achieve my dream. I have to work hard and shows educated of it . The person that who I admired is not a photographer is a singer, his name Kyuhyun Choi from Super Junior.

Or I called him Kyu for short. Kyuhyun is a wonderful singer and he is an actor in a musical. What word I would describe him is that he is ambitious person, who always work hard his dream no what matter what his circumcises were. Even he was in a car accident his father helped him and supportive his dream, although his father was against it. He is a kind man who keeps going on and doing his best. When I think of him I can understand him of  the struggle and the good outcomes achieving his dream.



 He did tired some new things such as acting,working soloing .In the musical the three musketeers. He was one of the three musketeers. On stage is a different place and acting is a totally different thing. I saw the play and it  was incredible. It is  similar to photography you have to prepare yourself what atmosphere that you are in.  



Kyuhyun is a simple person just like us, accept for  the frame and the money . Also the fan girls are crazy for him. For me not crazy about him, just I admired his characteristic. When he is singing and acting. Especially his smile lifted more in the Super Junior music called Bontannna . He is into gaming, which does not surprise me, because most of boys are in that. Even myself  well I am girl into gaming I love Noheroes  :)


He enjoys what he is doing, not treating the band as work but he treated as the band members as brothers. He was a lonely child so doesn't he much experience with kids.   He has worked solo and one of his songs,  which I like is dreams and  it is a soundtrack soundtrack from Baker King a Korean drama. This song about he continued achieving his dream and dreams are important to us.
 
Even if I have mistakes I will keep on going, whatever happen to me. Until I have achieved it just like Kyuhyun.
 

 

 


 









 Experimenting with ideas
This work was just for fun and I decided to cropped them and placed them in different places. In Photoshop I click on transform and then click on scale to change the size and I arrange them. Some I changed the layers(images). I like the first one and third one, because it has interesting and balance of layout. The second one is good but to me is a bit strange. It took three hours to do each one.
 

Today is such a nice and sunny day, but I am going out with my old friend tomorrow . I miss her and we are going shopping. Anyway through my trips; Crystal Palace park and London. I have a few ideas of fashion and posing. Especially in London, in the tourist places such as Leicester Square, Hyde Park, London Parliament, Oxford Circus and Westend . I love Westend, because it has some good ideas of fashion and the clothes shops are great. At the moment I am loving the leather jackets, but why are so expensive to buy :(

In Crystal Palace there were some people wearing nice clothes,  most were kids and they were climbing rocks and playing in the playground. This bring back memories, when I was a kid, I was clumsy one and the naughty one .

 



Last week I was going through some my emails,  this song in my head. Yes you guess, its a new song by Super Junior Mr. Simple, which came out this month. Their Style in the video is different with their other music videos . This was based on 60s style, but I like their clothes, because it is bright, crazy and creative. All girls would love to have a Mr. Simple, well I would . A simple guy who is funny, romantic and easy to talk to. Not complicated like some I would not name a few here. When I saw the video got some ideas for fashion for boys what they can wear.

 





My favorite one is Kyuhyun Chou or I call him Kyu for short . Kyuhyun 's characteristic well, there is one word to describe him that is, he is very ambitious. He followed his dreams no matter what his circumstances were. Even his father was against it, but  his father help him get better from Kyuhyun's car accident. Even though, Kyuhyun had the car accident and had another one in April. He still kept going to continue his dream. I think he worked with the Super Junior, because they seem act like brothers and his singing and deficient he like dancing . He is my idol that who I admired, because he followed his dreams and he is a very strong person.  I try best all the time not to be just like him, but I keep going, even if make mistakes or been in accident. I still kept going because one day I might achieve it to be Ariel Photographer or just a travel photographer.
  

When I was watching the music video . I saw Siwon's new hairstyle personally I don't like it, because I think it doesn't suit him . He reminds of someone, Haruko Akagi in Slam Duck  I watched this in the Malaysia and I love the opening song and ending. The anime was really good. I bet the stylist got the idea from the anime LOL.   

 











Camera is an unique tool to use in Photography, and filming . Photos build a story , memories and piece of art. Filming shows the same meaning. Camera can create a moving mirror and it record things around you . 
 
Photography is taking pictures,  but it means more than that , it  use for a purpose to improve an image in a better perspective. Some people do not understand the true meaning of photography, that mean they have not try it yet. I bet when they tried it for three weeks, they will understand a bit more of it.









Thursday 18 August 2011

How to get picture of a stranger

I found asking people to take photo of them, is most scaring ever. Even thought I haven't experience before. I have to do it again . This is all about experience and what happens in fashion or portraits. I found it easy to  pictures of still objects at least you don't have to ask them.

On Saturday I was trying to take pictures of people wearing something attractive and interesting. One of them said yes I found her in park and she was wearing leopard trousers , a shirt with with funny face and hat. She had also wearing awesome headphones. I love them, I need to buy some headphones. They  are not working. Actually I think they are called earphones, I don't know they are the same to me. I took one photo of her, but  I didn't want scared her if I take more pictures of her. One is an enough . Anyway I saw another girl I want to take photos of her too.  I like her coat and her ties. Then she said no kindly, but she kept asking me so many questions about photography. It's nice that you are interested what I do . But still you didn't let me take of picture you.

Here we are in  Crystal Palace park with my friends, taking pictures of beautiful and the warm sunny day. Aww they looked great  and the shoot went well and I enjoy taking pictures. I used to come here when I was six year old and there were dinosaurs and ponds. I took a lot pictures of  my models and scenery thanks Adam got the idea to take picture here .




 Yes we went London as well , we went to Leicester Square and London Parliament  . These places are great to take photos of people wearing strange and fantastic clothes.We went to beautiful park and it was sunny and beautiful. Until a man pay to charge him for sitting down, what a rip off.


Asking strangers again, I don't think I can , I probably will keep going to take picture without knowing, which I did. I understand why some people don't like because they might be shy, scared and they are lazy. Even I have business card they still said no. Out of billion people, one of them will said yes.  I am sure they want to be famous and they would be flattered to be in magazine page wouldn't they. I would, if they ask me and they had a business card. For me taking the picture or asking them. I was nervous and I feel a little a bit stupid, because there is likely chance they will said no, or they would swear at me or they would beat me up. I have a better to take a picture without them knowing unlikely they would notice.

To take picture without them knowing,  if they were talking someone. Another way is  pretend taking a picture of something else and slightly move the camera and zooming in the, 'target'. Much easier way taking a picture of their back side or taking a picture on higher place and pointing  the camera in angle.

 Please remember the flash the off if you are near them. Sometime they will know and at times they won't notice. If someone took a picture of me without me knowing . I would be shock but I won't be annoy, it depends on picture is good or bad.


 Enough of  this, I  am going to wrap this up by saying let's play with life and enjoy life as we can, because we only got one .