Gown shoot

had an interesting shoot on sunday at Peridot studio with a 5D and some outdoor shots. my fashion designer friend Sulaimi will be doing a label in england, and he wanted to do some shots for couple of his gowns before flying off.

The girls were quite new but very cute. They're going to be great with just a bit of experience. Here's a pic of Zoey, a british girl living here in Singapore. She does look like a doll doesnt she?

Might upoload couple of more pics of her here, so watch this space! oh yea, got to upload another shot of Mischa here too. Remind me guys!

Bilal Zaheer

http://elanist.com/bilal

tried out the 40D

I tried the Canon 40D yesterday for some portraits and a private event (the Philips Aurea launch, the super TV for super elites eh?. Used the 24-70 2.8L. Well the lens I have used before, and its just awesome, no surprises there (see picture below).

The experience with the camera itself was pretty cool and its loaded with features. Obviously live view was quite helpful specially for the event and the screen is really big! like really big. The shutter sound is quite muffled, in fact the "click" actually sounds pretty sophisticated with the two way motorized mechanism for the mirror. I was using it with the battery grip so not sure how it would feel with just the camera itself. But overall I think it was a much better experience in terms of usage AND for image quality out of 350D, 400D, 20D and 5D so far. Yep I do prefer it over 5D. The noise level is better than 5D even at ISO 800! I think its the Digic III which is giving 40D the slight edge in noise level. Will be uploading more later in the week.

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=6563518

Oh yea, the girl with THE eyes is Mischa, she's french Canadian. Really cute and silly! The granulated affect on the skin and the "eye-bag effect" is from bit dramatic light and sharpening. I know chicks like to have their skin look smooth, but as photographer, i dunno, I like the effect it gives with the texture (well in pictures of course! as in to see not to touch, you know what i mean?)

Bilal Zaheer

http://elanist.com/bilal