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Island Trip │ Exploring instants

By SHERE - May 30, 2015

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Photo Hunting │ A Day Out To The Nature

By SHERE - April 25, 2015

I live in a city, for me, to find a place nature is a pretty tough job in here. Although it is hard, to my photo hunting day I'm still going to the nature no matter how long it takes me. I am that kind of person who will plan a day out just to capture photos, I usually call that "photo-hunting".

This time in photo-hunting, I arrived a place in the countryside which is a waterfront park and a pier at the same time, so I get to see the view of the mountains and tress and sea at the same time, such a wonderful place for photo-hunting.

This is a little special version of my photo-hunting trip as I brought my boyfriend along to be my "model" (not exactly model-ly in photo as we are in the public). Everything turns out pretty well and we (yes, he did capture a few spectacular photos, out of my expectation) captured quite a lot of photos as the weather was pretty fine that day.

In most of my photo hunt, I usually have to double check the weather on that day, other than that is the time of the day. Timing is the most important thing in photo-hunting as you may see, I love to play with the sun. What I mean by playing with the sun is that I usually follow the sun or the light source to capture my photo, so every single photo you can see may produce a "light leaked" effect, which is absolutely captivating for me.

The ISO of my camera is the most important setting for me as I love to increase the light intensity for all of my photos, this will highlight every single feature of the person in the photos or the nature in the photos. Also, putting up the ISO may makes your photo look softer, with a softening effect, this acts as an enhancing effect for the light leaked.

I am currently using my CANON EOS 600D for my photo hunt, usually I will bring more than one camera to the hunt, for example my DIANA camera or the instant film camera to play with more effects.

Tell me what you think about the photos and your experience in your photo hunt!
You may also share your tips in taking photos in the nature in the comments below!

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Fashion Guru│Denim Lookbook

By SHERE - April 05, 2015

*Model in the photos is wearing #4 #5 #6 #7

* *Photos from ZALORA

Another long fashion post, but this time of the year, DENIM is definitely the thing we are going for. It's the time between summer and spring and this is when denim came off with style, not just talking about the old boring denim jeans, but something stylish to pull it off on your day, something different with the new styling method of denim.

The casual easy look #1

Long dungarees are my favorite casual look, those days when you really don't have a clue of what to wear or how to match your tops and bottoms, this overall outfit will come in handy. Simply throw in something simple and plain, perhaps a plain white or black color tee? Or probably a black-and-white stripes crop top? Add a little edginess by folding the rim of the dungarees twice, or probably leave one button out to let part of the front part fall out? This gives out a casual, lay-back look but with a bit of street style to pull it off.

Something to standout #2 & #3 / #2 & #8

Medium wash denim jacket basically goes along with everything, you can easily create that messy, casual look but still stand out on the street. Throwing in a blouse or plain tee inside with an easy match with a pair of denim shorts or skirt, leave the flies of the jacket open, everything will look so stylish and blow others' mind.

A new way to wear #5 & #3 #8 / #6 & #3 #8

People often wear denim blouse the way they are supposed to wear, but this is not the way to go, denim blouse is basically a piece of cloth that you can transform into anything you want. Instead of using it as a blouse, consider it as a jacket, throwing in a tee along with a pair of shorts or skirt. I often wear my denim blouse in another way, basically matches with any kind of shorts or skirt, I will tie a little knot with it, right on my belly so that it gives a little crop top style, you can either throw in something plain so you can just tie your blouse's end without buttoning, or just wear it as a blouse and leave out a few buttons so there is some space for you to tie it. I really love the knot-tying style because it is somehow unique and it makes your body shape looks better especially your waist.

Something classy yet edgy #7 & #4
You may see how the model wear it from the above photos, if you want something classy yet stay in a sense of edge, try on some denim dresses, the texture doesn't necessarily has to be denim but only looking like denim will be fine, so the dress can easily show your curves instead of being all stiff and hard on the edge. Throw in a pair of leather boot as it can take some of the focus to your feet, denim is always a great match with leather, classy yet edgy together.

What do you think of the styling with denim?

Do let me know if you have any comments and questions :)

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Photographing with style │ Instant Fever

By SHERE - February 18, 2015

If you are familiar with this blog, this isn't my first post about the fuji instant film camera or instant film photos. I am a HUGE FAN of instant film photos (no matter it's polaroid or fuji or any kind of vintage cameras), not only it gives out that vintage feeling but you can actually capture the very moment that you want and actually own that moment instantly.

There was a time period that I didn't use this camera as often (due to different reasons like time and lack of film refills), but why buy the camera and put there for a waste right? So I eventually got up and bought a stack of film refills for my camera, so I have no more any excuses not to use it. And turns out that I do consumed the films in a very short period of time as I brought it out in nearly every single occasions when I am hanging out with my friends or boyfriend to some very special places. Well, some of it are not that special, it's just that I wanted to capture something for that day.

Most of the instant photos I captured above are from the day I went to Disney with my boyfriend, surely a moment that is worth capturing because I am a huge Disney fan, not ashamed to admit this but I'm incredibly in love with going to Disney despite those games are not as good as Universal Studio's ones.

But here is the key, some of you may think that instant film camera is a pain in the ass, why buy something made in the technologies of a hundred years ago when you have a DSLR that can do everything right?

By far my favorite instant photo out of all of it, taken when we were queuing for the roller-coaster in Disney, just like an album art huh?

Instant film camera is different from DSLR (apart from functions obviously). It's all about capturing that very precious moment and actually own it. You can put it up on the wall and look at it instead of going through your photo library on your phone, it is surely something. Using an instant film camera well requires incredibly techniques, sometimes even when you are good at using DSLR doesn't mean that you can handle an instant film camera. It is known that instant film camera cannot be changed once it is done, so you have to make sure that everything infront of that camera is ready, even the weather, the sunlight, everything, before you fire that shutter. I love how it is challenging to use an instant film camera, it requires a lot of practices to be frank, and it is not easy especially I'm using one of those instant film cameras which is not automatic, everything requires your own control. That's what I love about it, it has to be totally original. You can adjust your exposure however you want, without the automatic sensor to correct the exposure for you, that you can shoot different styles of photos just like a DSLR but with a sense of old-fashioned in it.

Exposure, for any cameras, is always the key. But for instant film cameras, it is the most important thing. For every photography style of instant film camera, adjusting the light exposure can produce different effect.

Low Key is when you adjust a lower light exposure mode than you are supposed to, this adds more shadow to the photo causing the image to be sharper. If you are shooting portraits of people with low key, it can highlights their facial features just like what those people did with photoshop. The above photo is so far my favorite instant film photo with low key, taken in Disneyland with my boyfriend when we were waiting for the roller-coaster queue. Low key makes the environment slightly a little darker and the people in the middle to be a little paler as a highlight.

For high key, you will have to adjust a higher light exposure mode than you are supposed to, this makes the photo paler, brighter like a soft focus in the DSLR. Everything in the photo will appear to be softer (if you want to know more about the high key function, you can refer it back to my previous post).

For more different photography styles with the instant film camera, you may leave your comments down there in the comment box.

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Island Trip │ Exploring instants

Photo Hunting │ A Day Out To The Nature

Fashion Guru│Denim Lookbook

Photographing with style │ Instant Fever

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