Photo Session at Museum Mandiri

Last weekend I joined at photo hunting session at Museum Mandiri.  My first to join a photo hunting session.  The session was quite cheap at Rp.170.000 with four models.  The organizer opened two sessions, one in the morning and one in the afternoon.  Considering how late I get up on the weekends, I took the afternoon session.  Besides, the morning session was crowded with a photo model ratio of 1:10.  The afternoon session photo model ratio was only 1:3.  The models were young college girls.  Most of the photographers were also in their age group.  I came with Philip, my officemate's son.  He arrived late though.  There I bumped into one guy who also joined the photo workshop I joined a month before.  The others were unfamiliar faces.

I shot Sovia first.  She was very friendly and had a cute dimple when she smiles.  We started around 1:30 pm right after lunch.  We were on the second floor of the museum and fortunately there were few people around.  My problem was that I still have not bought a decent external flash so I had to do with my internal flash and major ISO adjustments on my camera.  One of the better shots is on the left.

After Sovia, I shot the three other models.  There was Anita, Shannon and Meytha.  This is Anita on the right.  The problem was that the models were quite tired already at around 2:30 pm.  It showed on the shots.  Also, it was quite hot inside the museum and the models were sweating and ruining their make up.  I myself was starting to sweat heavily.  I just realized that I need an 18-105 mm lens for situations like this.  It was just tiring having to switch lenses everytime I wanted a close up shot.

We wrapped up around 4:00 pm because the museum was closing.

It was quite a learning experience for me.  I need to be able to coach the model and be more communicative with them.  I also need a flash badly!