Hi Everyone,
First, I would like to thank Lloyd, the Heritage Hotel manager, who has accepted to let me do this photo shoot with Isabella at the hotel.
My theme: Travel and Solitude
Location of Chapter 1: Old KTM railway station in Kuala Lumpur and the Heritage Hotel
I arrived Saturday morning at 9:00 AM at the hotel; set my lighting up, turned around not less than 3 times to decide where I will take the pictures. I got a bad surprise when I get there … I wanted to shoot Isabella on the balcony, with at her back the KTM building; unfortunately, they haven’t removed all the Malaysian flags yet from the Merdeka celebrations. I have nothing against the flag, but it did not really fit into the themes for my pictures. Nevermind, I will have to choose the right angle.
So, I brougth my studio lighting, stands, 2 senses and my new flash; this was a bit risky. I received it on Thursday. No much time to try it.
We started the session around 10 am and finished before 1 pm.
So, to my colleagues who saw me entering or leaving the hotel with a young and beautiful woman… sorry, no need to run into my wife’s office; she is aware and agreeable 
I had two challenges during this session:
1- The pictures in the staircases, with just the flash, in term of lighting. Some shadows appeared where I was not able to bring my backlight.
2- It the train station by itself. This new flash METZ Mecablitz 58 AF-1 digital E-TTL II is very nice, but killed my battery in 1 hour. No choice, I will have to buy the Power-Pack 76. I finished the session with a few blur pictures taken at 1/8 s. Powerful flash needs powerful battery. By the way, it’s very easy to use.
Hey, let’s not forget the most important person of this photo shoot … Isabella. Very good model, she knows what to do even before you ask her. I wanted a model who was able to give me sad expressions… she was perfect. Just do not ask her to smile! Sad … She looks naturally sad and beautiful at the same time.
Still a lot to process, but these are my twelve favorite pics…
Let me know what you think about the pictures,
Cheers.
My goodness, not even one smile. I really do not want to travel next to her on a 8 to 10 hour train journey no matter how nice she may be. The pics are great and that’s what matters.
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Nil: How do you want her to smile? My theme is “Solitude” … I asked her to be sad. After 3 hours of photo shoot, she was very happy to have the right to smile.
Oh, forgot to tell you; your blog has been hacked. A weirdo has put his sixties pictures on your blog
Ok, Solitude it is – next model – let them smile a bit lah – or are you reflecting what you feel as an artist seems to reflect their feeling to their art ;-P
As for the hacker, can you use the tracking device and spam him
even i can appreciate the pics, as for the model any dma?
Sree: Sorry, proprietary API.