Finding the Light

Last Sunday,

I had a shoot inside a mall in Ayala. Shooting inside a mall is not an easy task.

* Not all malls have bright lights. You have to boost your ISO to 1600 to get a decent shot without blur. (even at 2.8)
* Should you decide to use an external flash gun, you'll be facing another problem. The Mall Guards.
* Even if some malls have decent bright lights, most of the time it's not flattering enough to work on.

Going back to my story, I was lucky enough that there were big ass windows at the side and at the top of the mall. I told Mimi (my model) to pass by the top floor since it's the nearest floor to the ceiling window. Lucky enough, we found a spot where the window ceiling created beautiful and flattering light that we could use.

It was so perfect that I haven't even bothered on bringing out my SB-700 flash gun.

After 3 hours of shooting, we went to the mall's food court to eat. She told me that she'll be making fan-signs (for her fans) so I told her to look for a table that's beside the mall window. And yes, we found a spot and we got to do the fan signs with no hassle.


I'll end this journal with a quote that my photography professor told me.

"The quality of light is more important than the quantity of light"

Here's some shots there we took using the beautiful ceiling window from the mall.