Indian Wedding

The Breakdown

-huge ordeal of 7 hours of straight shooting. and that's just the reception. The whole wedding is over a span of three to four days.

-delicious food and beautiful people with even more beautiful henna and sari (sp?).

-snobby guests with prosumer DSLRs. Do not want! I saw someone shooting with a Nikon D300 and complimented how his camera is better than mine (I was using a backup Nikon D5000 at the time), to which he replied "My lens is more expensive than your camera. Did you know that?" His infuriatingly condescending comment only drives me to make the statement "it's the photographer not the camera" true. Also, he had an external flash on his camera with only an omnibounce and used a zoom lens. If he could afford it and actually knew about image quality he would have had off axis lighting and a prime lens.

-weddings are the graveyards of batteries.

-I look forward to the next one.

-Seriously considering switching to Nikon.

random goings-on

My nightclub photographer gig has definitely made me more social and dare I say it... flirty? I really need my own business card so these random people I chat up will call me for photography services. I also kind of get my ego stroked by semi drunk men who flatter my appearance. It's as Dmitry always say, there are no ugly girls, just not enough vodka. In my defense, they weren't all drunk!

I went to an Indian wedding earlier today to gain more experience as a wedding photographer, and omg, Indians with glue-green eyes are like the most gorgeous people EVER.

In other news, I've started putting on makeup. It's just good business practice. Yay conforming to societal standards? x.x

style

This sounds like I'm a narcissist, but recently I have thought a lot about myself and more specifically my expression style. As a writer, my school essays were succinct and perhaps overtly argumentative. As a photographer, I tend to favor tight crops and go straight for head shots instead of full body ones. The rare times when I socialize, I say mean and awkward things that people usually laugh off. I strongly believe I am able to look things in the eye and see them for exactly what they are, but in a negative and cynical light.

There's a Chinese adage that goes 退一步海阔天空, which literally translates to "take a step back, to the vast ocean and the expansive sky", and I aim to keep this in mind from now on. I need to look at the bigger picture, write with more context, photograph environmental portraits, and refrain from disagreeable social behavior.

I wish to become more positive. I want moderation and control and positivity.

Sigh.