Wednesday, March 5, 2008

BY grouch
Hi y'all Photog peeps out there!
Just want to say a BIG HELLO to all the new photog kids this year! (If there are actually any readers out there.... errr.... ya.)

It may seem cool that there is a horde of photographers at every event (when I say every, I mean EVERY. No kidding hor.) and it seems like an easy task... Afterall, we're "just taking photos". NO IT'S NOT COOL!...

Actually it is lar.
You're the fortunate 3% of the school population, hand picked by our dear Papa Cheng, to have the chance to use tok kongly big cameras. (tok kong=super)

Some people say it's cool to see things differently through a camera lens. NO IT SHOULDNT BE SO!...

Actually it's so...
Photography has never ending possibilities. What determines a good photo has many dimensions to it; lighting, contrast, colours, so on and so forth. Sometimes undesirable dirt can seem desirable. Sometimes undesirable lens abbreviation can seem desirable, and even cool. (Looking at JoHo's pictures is sufficient to make me drool...) But what's the most important is composition. If your composition sucks, so sorry... The photo is ruined. And another thing about photography is that it has to tell a story. (Like what I used to tell the J2s) You wont want to shoot a photo with many many things inside, but no focus and the person looking at it has got totally no idea what you want to shoot. That is not good.

No good at all.

And yes, dont break anything that belongs to the club. The exco will wring you dry to pay for the stuff. I mean it. Quentin bites.

So remember children, the next time when you shoot for an event, look out for individual expressions (use a telephoto lens if you have to) that tells a story about the event happening. Dont kamikaze anyhow shoot 1GB of photos back, you'll feel about one-tenth of Shan Shan's pain.

Play with light. Fire away, children!

(P.S. In case you didnt know, I'm the girl in pink today.)