At-Home Photo Studio – Practice Makes Perfect

G'day y'all, and good happy weekend. These past days I've been working at my new work place I mentioned earlier, waking up at 4:30AM starting work at 6:00! Woooshh! Ok, really I only had the 6AM shift on 2 out of 5 days, but that's plenty. I've dozed off so early every day this week that this is the first day I'm sitting here blogging.

I'm not here to talk about work though!

This past Tuesday I had the very honored, privileged and inspiring opportunity to have a little studio style photo shoot with my ever so hilariously sarcastic homeboy Heikki, also known as the cool guy with the camera (heh heh I'm sure he'd like to be called that, right?). Heikki has the potential to become a master photographer one day, plus he's got some sweet gear too;

So last week when I bumped into him during work we decided to team up for a studio shoot;

Surprise attack remote control photo! Too bad Heikki sent me a censored one!

The at-home studio; Heikki set up the umbrellas etc and there, we had a working mini photo studio!

Thing is, I need some serious practice with posing for the camera, and Heikki wanted to test his new umbrellas and practice coaching the model. Though I'm not even half as "professional" with photographing as he is, I've got my interest in photography too and also want to learn to better understand how everything in it works. I always find photo shoots so fun and inspiring!

I've got my dozen cell-phone photos to show you's;

Between the studio gear; Heikki texting, clearly eager to pose for the picture *facepalm*

One of the first photos; we'd have each photo Heikki took shown on the TV screen once taken,
so we could see how they turned out and what needed to be changed etc.

For me the point in this time's photo shoot was not so much as to take hot-looking pictures for the blog header or so, but more so to just practice being in the photos. Because I'm not a professional model either, Heikki told me it was best if I just wore something I'd feel as comfortable in as possible, so I went super casual for this shoot. So that I could concentrate on what I was there to do - learn being natural in front of the camera.

I switched my outfit once and just retouched my makeup. I thought I was wearing a total CAKE make but, I should've known, it turned out looking like I was hardly wearing any in the photos!

Wearing my other outfit, in a 10€ Gina knit I just found from their sales.

Cameraman spotted in the background!

Posing for pictures and looking good in them takes work, and it takes really knowing how you look. I know how to pose when I can see it myself (mirror) but when I can not, oh believe me we get the DERP DERP's going! We were laughing to hard at some of the pictures Heikki took when we were starting to get tired and I'd be derping in all the photos, though on the long shot the posing started to work better for me.

I'm content I had my eyes closed in about 1 out of 10 of those ~270 photos. Next time just 1/20!

Or I might also have been doing something equally smart looking, like this. Heh heh.

We did get some nice results too tho + I learned to better see how to hold my head and torso I think!

I'm not going to show you the end results of the photos Heikki took in this post, but if we get some I look decent enough in, I'll be posting more later! Right now I should be working on my school assignments though, so I won't go into sorting those out now.

One last self-taken cell phone photo from the day to with you all a good weekend;

My favorite self-taken shot from the day; IMO I look more Shizuka Takeda than my usual self here.

Everybody enjoy the weekend, I'm to do something smart before tonight's shift! Cheers ♥