It is good to be back my friends! I have not had a shoot in more than a month (what is surprising and absolutely flattering to me is that some of you actually noticed this too) and believe me when I say it, I have missed this, truly. The first shoot since a long while was with the one and only Clelia (a.k.a the pirate) and I must admit, it was a rather special one - I want to take this quick moment to tell you a little bit about the challenges we faced and what we ended up with in the end.
The very basic principle idea was to have a shoot which screams elegance, but nothing too dull, the glamour still has to stay in there - what better way to do this than incorporate a piano into the photo-shoot. Now unfortunately I'm not lucky enough to have a piano lying around in my house so what we decided to do is use the Salle Polyvalente in our school. Trust me, when you tell the director of a school you want to do a photo-shoot in the Salle Polyvalente he'll be really bloody confused on why he should actually let you do this. Somehow, I managed to convince him, perhaps some of his requests were sort of "swept under the carpet" but hey - it's for the greater good, or so I keep telling myself anyway.
Pointless bureaucracy aside, the shoot ended up working out really well, I'll be honest with you, it was indeed one of those shoots where the photos looked different to what I hoped they would do. In fact, I was a little bit disappointed when I looked through them but then I edited a few and just let them sit there, I came back to them every few hours or so and the photos really started to grow on me. There was something quite pure about them, despite the imperfections I had noticed earlier the feel I wanted for the photo was there. This "feel", is more often than not the most important thing to a photo - it either makes it or breaks it. If a photo somehow speaks to the viewer and creates some meaning I'd consider it a successful photograph. Now don't be mistaken, those imperfections I had trouble with in the beginning still aren't excusable, (although most of them I managed to fix with the magic of photoshop) however this time, they were small things - things that didn't affect what the photograph actually stood for.
And on that note, here are the two photos I fancied the most, what do you think?
