Why, you ask? Because he helped me get my first lens!
Well, technically, not my FIRST, my second lens, so to speak.
This is probably the cheapest bundle of joy in the photography world.
Heck, I think it IS! At only RM 350, this lens weighs in at 130g! That's lighter than my phone -.-
After testing out Calvin's own 50mm lens (I only took 2 shots :P), I knew I wanted to buy it.
To be honest, I had always wanted this lens, particularly because it's such a great portrait lens.
The dismal f/3.5 on my kit lens didn't isolate my subjects enough. This one had an aperture of f/1.8...
Which makes my pictures look like this!!
Calvin couldn't go out and buy me a new one in time for Initial Sound's photoshoot so he kindly lent me his instead.
Yeah, that photoshoot is a whole other thing. We didn't have a proper place to do it, so we ended up going to the Kuala Lumpur Performing Arts Centre (KLPAC) to do it.
Unfortunately, the uptight Indian security guards came to us after about 10 minutes and said we weren't allowed to take pictures. But we kinda ignored him several times and it really pissed him off. More of that later in this post :P
This was the first shot, which was REALLY candid. One thing Wen Chuan noticed was that in all the pictures, no one was actually looking directly at the camera. After I got back, I tried cropping the pictures to Album Cover size, and I realised someone's face would ALWAYS be left out.
Which was quite a bummer since we spent a while a KLPAC and even took shots in the rain.
This was the shot that everyone liked the best. I'm pretty lazy to upload all the pictures from the shoot as there were 411, so I only uploaded 59 onto Facebook. You can check them out here, here or here.
Owh, I almost forgot! Still wanna know why we got halau-ed? It's actually Jia Wen's fault, because he did this!
The security guards started shouting at us from the main entrance which was like 150m away! :O
So if you wanna catch Initial Sound live, head on down to EndGame, to purchase tickets!
