Purple Dance

My experiment of freezing poster colour ended up with this image. Each drop of purple paint was shot individually and I simply stitched them up together with Photoshop (PS). The layering job was easy as the background was black in colour. This made feather selection easy for copy and paste. I didn't even have to use the extract filter in PS2 to extract the droplets. Then it was just a matter of placing the droplets to my liking on a 645 format.

The image ended up looking like super-sperm cells dancing luminously in water! And if you click on the image, you will notice the amazing twisting and turning of each cell. This was all captured on camera! No other filter effect was apply, except of the stitching, sharpening and pumping up the colour saturation.

Lately, I received a photography job to shoot for a corporate event which I happily rejected. Well, firstly, the client sounded really cocky on the phone and photographers definitely deserved better respect than that. Secondly, shooting a corporate event is the most degrading type of photography job to me. It is definitely a no-brainer. Anyone with a camera could shoot a prize giving, group photos, and a speech! And sometimes you get order around like a waiter by nasty client! Once I shot a banking conference organized by Financial Times during IMF in 2006, the editor-in-chief ordered me around like I'm lousy waiter! But I tolerated, since he was paying me $1000 for a 2 hours no-brainer job.

Thirdly, she can't pay my charges of $250 per hour which I had charged for several corporate events. Honestly, I felt that there is really no need to undercut anyone to get such a degrading job.

Fourthly, I wanted a real commercial job like product or portraiture. Just like the recent Banyan Tree job that I did, I really like it as it horned my skills and at the same time, I got more respect and pay! Fifthly, I'm lecturing full time, which means I'm not desperate for $$$.

Well, the reasons are endless when I don't wanna do something which I dislike :)