There’s been so much going on this month, but the one thing that is really fresh in my mind is photography.
I spent this month going to different recitals and concerts to practice taking pictures in stage lighting, which can be really challenging. One thing I learned is that I need to have more control over the camera, and maybe even a tripod stand…because my hands get so shaky while taking the pictures when it has longer exposure times. Maybe one way to take the pictures is to take it at a very fast shutter speed and lighten everything up in lightroom…who knows…
But after all the hard work of editing (I could do better and spend more time on it, but since it’s finals month, I couldn’t) and posting all the pictures up on facebook, it’s always such a joy to read people’s comments and makes me even happier when they choose one of the pictures I took as their profile picture. That tells me that I succeeded in taking really good photos or I edited them pretty well. So far, from the La Didone production, five people chose to use the pictures I took as their profile picture =)
I don’t know what it is about photography that makes me like it so much..maybe it’s the joy of being able to meet new people when I sneak stalker shots? Hehe, just kidding. But I did meet quite a few new people or got to know others better. Just to name a few…Jerry, Matt, Sara, Dan, Thomas, Thanh, Danielle, Nancy, Katsuya, and Brian. Photography just opens up so many possibilities for me, and somehow lifts me up like I’m floating. Hehe, it sounds silly, but that’s how I feel. At the same time, this is a way to express myself through the pictures that I take, it’s like a whole new side of me I didn’t know about it until I stepped outside my bubble and went out taking pictures of people I know and people I don’t know.
