Meeting

It was great bumping into Chee Pin and Jason again last night (and of course their friends like Kex and Alice too). It was also great to catchup with Sharon for dinner, since we haven't met each other for many months. I had 2 pints of Guinness, 2 bottles of Heineken in Bala before leaving the place at 12.30am. I figured that I might struggle to get out of bed this morning for a goddamn meeting at 9am, hence I decided not to join them at St. James. Speaking of which, I have 2 other meaningless meetings at 1pm and 3pm as well. There are 2 types of meetings in my dictionary:

1. When one is absolutely clueless with a task at hand, a meeting known as "Brainstorming Session" will be called to seek ideas from another bunch of clueless people.

2. When one has too many tasks at hand, a meeting disguised in different names like - weekly meeting, committee meeting, management meeting, department meeting etc. will be called upon. Needless to say, you know the real agenda of such meetings :)

This photo of myself is a self-portrait taken with a 50mm canon lens on tripod, placed at the far end of the table. I had one light source thrown from the top right. The reflection of myself is real on the marble dining table. I used a remote to trigger the camera timer and did a few poses. The cups and bowls were subsequently shot individually with the same light source and then I photoshop them. The reflection of the cups and bowls were also created in photoshop by an easy vertical and horizontal flipping of the images and reducing the opacity to create reflection. Actually, the process wasn't complicated but a rather tedious one. Without a subject, one has to deal with issues like pre-composition, light and focus. All these are done without a dummy subject. There was a lot of trial & error, before I could get the focusing & lighting right. Nevertheless, I think the process of self-portraiture has forced me to previsualize on the image and setup harder and at the same time learn to work systematically.

p/s: As I'm writing this blog, I found that the damn meeting at 1pm has been postponed, because the chairperson is a confused soul, swarmed by too many MEETINGS. *Yawn*