Eye looks and recent portraits

I was playing with my make up last week but didn't post up any photos/blogged about. So here are the two attempts at dramatic eyelooks. I find it really hard to go crazy with colors because I so used to using light neutral shades. (even when I go out at night). So trying something like a blue.red was really challenging.

On the other hand, I discovered Adobe Lightroom and OH MY GAWD where have I been all my life? I feel like I have been missing out on so much. Been learning the program as much as I can for a week but then I realised I had to get back to drawing as well.

I also had a last minute photoshoot with my friend Mabel which was meant to be an entry for a weekly online challenge but it was too late to submit my entry. Nevertheless, I thought it was a good time to practice my photography and to play around with my flash. Getting her to pose was no problem and I can't wait to actually plan an actual photoshoot with her when she gets a weave on her hair. =P

After that I had a planned photoshoot with and interested person for modelling from a response to my gumtree ad a few weeks back. I planned a photoshoot with another lady but she couldn't make it on the day and I haven't heard from her since. I was pretty nervous for the photoshoot since I haven't actually took photos of someone I don't know and I'm not a professional. Not to mention I have horrible socializing skills. But I think it went fairly well..and I hope I'll be able to do more photoshoots to practice my people and photography skill set. Enough of the talking, here are a few of my favourite shots.

When I first discovered Lightroom...I was like HOLY SHIT I CAN MAKE MY EYES LOOK LIKE THIS SHARP WTF. Noob alert.

The church setting was so lovely! Didn't have time to take actual pictures of the place because I had my 35mm prime lens on which wasn't wide enough and I still needed it for the portraits

It was a real challenge to shoot Annie because she tends to blink very quickly when I press the shutter(which means flash). The glasses was also a challenge because of how often it cuts out the eyes. But I've learn a fair bit from this photoshoot and am glad to have done it. 

The Byrneleigh

Last Friday I was planning to do a photoshoot of Rachael but before that we went out for brunch which ended up being lunch instead. We were planning to try another cafe called Moubar(I think) in Nedlands but then we were a bit late in catching their breakfast menu. So, we walked around the area and found a cafe called The Byrneleigh having a $15 lunch special so we decided to go with that instead. 

The place itself is so lovely.  I love the deco especially the potted plants in the metal and wooden frames and the oudoor seating was so pretty. It has a really relaxing atmosphere and the food is super yummy.

Didn't bother to dress up or anything because I usually don't when I plan on carrying my dslr. I just don't like squishing my face against the LCD screen when I have my usual amount of make up on so I slapped on really light bb cream, thin eyeliner and mascara on. (Oh! and concealer. I have panda eyes)

Rachael ordered the sticky pork pizza and I had ...actually I'm not sure what I had but it tasted good!

But the pizza was really good. I liked it better than what I got. Both of them taste yummy but the pizza is more yummy to me..if you get what I mean.

Nice, clean and neat.

AND FREE WATER! :P

I'd definitely go back there and eat again someday. I think $15 is not too pricey for a nice and satisfying lunch. I haven't checked the menu for their normal prices(I assume it's probably higher) but will definitely go again for a nice little lunch treat.

Some of my photos from the day that I liked.

And gawd, photoshooting Rachael was hard because she didn't want to get into this patch of flowers because it has a bee flying around it somewhere. But oh well. I got a fairly decent shot.

After doing a photoshoot the day before with me in the "model" role I realised that models really just have to suck it up and just pose in public because if you get a photographer and you end up posing the same pose throughout the entire shoot you're gonna end up with a whole bunch of shitty fairly identical photos no matter how good the photographer is. I'm sure we've all modeled in front of the mirrors..It's just the matter of doing what you do in the mirror in front of the photographer and in public but at the same time just ignoring the fact that there are people around you..And then it can end up being really fun. (That's if you actually want to be taken a picture of. If you don't have interest in having a picture taken I'm pretty sure you wouldn't even be booking a photographer). But we're girls hey, I'm sure we all had that one moment when you just wanna look all glam get some lovely snapshots. (I can't wait for my photos to come out! Not the best poser but it's still exciting!)