The China Experience Pt.1

Started making a series of videos last night using various footage I captured during a recent trip to China, sorry for the poor quality was using different cameras throughout and didn't have a hdslr on me :( Think I'll purchase a D7000 or something in the future for use purely for video. I find video with travel is a good thing helps with explaining to family and friends the experience of a trip and the dynamic. I actually didn't realize I had so much footage until last night with clips still on my phones I think I rounded maybe 2hrs of clips here and there needless to say I'm going to need to clear my laptop soon.

Presenting part one of unknown amounts:

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Still For A Moment

Still for a moment.
Generally I never shoot still life i.e fruits & Vegetables never seems right when I do it rather blah maybe thats because I never have any direction to go with it or something meh. Did a random shoot today had one idea in mind but my limitations in my knife skills stopped me from completing task one and changing it up completely fruit salad to follow. Second shoot was of Red Chili Peppers and Pepper Flakes shot on some wood planks I destroyed the other night to get a distressed feel, can't wait to shoot like a rustic food shot but that will have to wait for a while think im going to stop styling and shoot for a bit after I finish of what I have in my fridge and concentrate on editing previous sessions and work on my book and hopefully somewhere in all that get a job ...^.^

Started as a pear, apple, & fennel salad tower but I failed @ slicing thin enough pieces 

so I'll try again in the future,  but in the meanwhile heres a apple, pear, banana, orange, walnut and olive oil salad....can you tell I just raided the kitchen? lol 

2 out of 3 distressed planks

While editing these decided to use clamps to stop my hair from blowing because of the fan....I enjoy thinking outside of the box =P

(Theres no emoto for the face im making right now which is sad T_T) 

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No words to be spoken today

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Working Through It

Crazy storm happening here in Toronto at the moment rain, lighting, thunder blah enough to wake me from my nap. Can we say summer is officially here? Pretty sure it wasn't even this hot in China dam it Canada your cold in the winter and boiling in the summer is there no in between? T_T

Anyways been a busy week worked my last few shifts at humber over the weekend which had me sleeping at rez while photographing/filming the first ever Smart Serve Leadership Development event which was pretty awesome, met a lot of cool people and some friends I haven't seen in awhile and also made some memories I'll never forgot one including a not so present roommate.....crazy rommie check my college life is now complete. ^_^

Did a small shoot on Tuesday here are a few images that im currently editing. Since I'm no longer @ Humber I'm now without studio, lights, and large access amount of gear; however, that's not going to stop me from shooting can always rent studios or lights for my commercial shots and use natural light and reflectors for food shoots which I already do, so I'm not worried at all as long as ideas keep coming through alls good. Just bought a new lens as well the Nikkor 50mm 1.8 never really used a 50 till this week to be honest used to using a 85mm, 20mm and others. Food shots coming up were all taken with the 50mm, think next purchase (once i pay off osap and bills...so 5 years? T_T) will be the 105mm and 85mm.

 Still got a ways to go in terms of styling/shooting the more I look at these images the more they piss me off....not in a bad way in terms of little mistakes and lessons to learn...if that makes sense... the top one is earlier on in the day so there is a difference in light. Both images need to be cleaned up more before I decide which I prefer. First time cooking/touching clams btw dropped one under my oven thats gonna smell in a bit T_T. Btw T_T = a crying face ^_^

Like my new background? went to home depot and bought some wood walked out with them in my duffle bag like a boss lol. Used some old paint I had laying around for like 10 years, which probably wasn't the best thing to open in my bedroom at like 1 am....

P.s brushing on the no equipment not the end of the world thing I took this photo a couple months ago using one Sb-900 and some pieces of white paper as fill in my living room on my kitchen table pretty decent don't you think? Mind you I didn't shot the splashes they are low rez stock images I was using as reference on how I was planning on developing my concept. So yeah you don't have a studio paint a wall, steam a bed sheet, go outside use the god given light source and diffuse it but most of all don't bitch do it, if it's your passion little things like this wont stop you right? Random babble oveeerrr! ^_^

The End.

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Ni Hao, Canada I've Returned ^_^

I have returned!! From where you might ask? China of course! Forgot to post about that didn't I? Mah bad (story about "mah bad" later)
So why in gods name was I in China? Remember how I went to France last year with my college? Pretty much the same thing but with all 2nd years so like a grad trip and with Professor Fox (ryan our chinese/british accent Shakespeare loving tour guide dubbed him, we just call him neil lol)
So yeah we were down there for 18days from May 4th-21st and it was 18days of greatness and a place I will surely travel too again on my own time minus tour guides so I can shoot on my own pace :)
Lot's to tell, so much seen I don't even know where to start. One major thing was we slept on the Great Wall of China and when I say sleep I don't mean on the bottom in one of the camping sites I mean legit climbed up and slept on those rocks waiting for sunrise and yes we peed on the great wall how many ppl can say that? XP There was also Kayaking, Biking, Rock Climbing, Boat Cruises, Monkey Brains in soup, rain rain and more rain, heat heat and more heat, perverted old men, and lots more. Stories of the trip will slowly come out along with corresponding pictures to help tell the story more in the mean time here some snaps to pass the time .Peace!!

P.s Steven Smith I am obsessed with you.....
P.s.s In 2012 me and the 21 other photographers I traveled with will be holding a gallery showing in May during Torontos Contact Photography Festival, look foreword to it!

Professor Fox chilling on the Great Wall

Resting at a bar after lunch with the bartender Terry

Ashley from popgoestheflash

My lovely roommate Danielle 

Me and Ashley after waking up on the great wall 

This guy started writing on some of our arms,

some said soemthing along the lines of

"I have a boyfriend, dont kiss me"

and

"I want a rich husband"

lol needless to say those that had it got stopped a lot lol

We went to a school in Yongsho to teach middle school children to use Olympus cameras.

This is Samuel; me, ashley, and amanda were working with. He was so cute and shy!

In our 2012 gallery showing photos that the children took will also be on display ^_^

Rock climbing in Yongsho

Dave!! Ni Haaaaaao =P

Alana & Chantal

It's funny but in China we all got stopped at least 10 times a day to have our picture taken with locals took some time to get used to too say the least lol

My day to take group picture on the 2nd last day in Shanghai

and lastly a photography I took while we were in Guilin (I think)? Glad I woke up early and decided to go out, as you can tell it was pretty foggy.

In transition

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Something New and Something Old

Something old and something new almost like a marriage... except not lol Something new being me shooting fashion haven't done that in a while and the something old being my model Mithika J. one of my favorite  people of all time =D Shots are still being edited and while take a while since I'll be leaving for china in 2 days and be living there for 18days. 

So stay posted :)

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