Boarders Photo
"What the-?! The dining room is locked!" That was me, cold and hungry and desolate, just wanting to get in, get lunch, get hot food. Turn around, strange commotion on the lawn outside. Oh yeah, boarders photo day...
After everyone was lined up in accordance to height, we trooped down to the Hethersett building steps to get in place for the shoot. That part was fine. The not good part was that it was so damn cold my teeth chattered and I was shivering in my supposedly woollen school jumper. Worse still, they wanted a photo with us wearing just our summer dresses. In this kind of weather?!
But well, after everyone was compressed together on the steps, it got a little bit warmer. Then they started asking us to take off our jumpers. Mind you, it didn't look very decent, suddenly this army of girls crammed on 6 levels of 1+ metre wide steps, fidgeting around trying to wriggle out of their jumpers while stuck in a position where you couldn't even lift your elbows.
Finally, everyone did get settled down, and the staff took their places on the chairs in front, and Sam the dog at the feet of Mr. and Mrs. Fearn-Wannan (heads of Boarding House). The school photographer (who looks really dashing) was up on a ladder just opposite, flanked by two branchy, leafy trees. A couple of test shots later, some woman (maybe the gardener) came with a pair of. And trim trim trim the trees in front of him cause they were obstructing his view. O-kaye.
But it was a pretty interesting photo shoot. I gave my best 'formal, but a happy, smiling kinda formal' smile...under the photographer's orders, we were supposed to look down and at the count of three raise our heads and smile. That way you get a more genuine smile, not one that has been wasting away for three seconds and resembles more a baring of teeth. =) After that, under a few of the girls' requests, we took candid shots. He set the camera so that it took a pic every half-second, directed it at us, and...all hell broke loose. Hahahah, no lah, it didn't. We just did funny things and made funny faces while about 12 or more pix were shot. Kinda fun. =)
Then finally, we could eat. But since we're on the topic of photopraghy, I wish I could send some of the photos taken by one of the boarders in Year 12. It was so...good. They (being her and her sister and sister's friends in Yr. 11) all went down to the pool one day. Only later, when she was uploading the pics off the digicam onto the com that I found out she's been taking underwater shots of them. They were seriously amazing, and the angles and effects, geez, I can't describe it...and a stroll along the corridor of the computer labs was equally interesting, with photoshop creations lining the walls and walls of the labs. Man, the stuff they learn and do here, makes computer lessons back home just seem...feeble and pathetic.
Nothing much I can say about the photos I'm supposed to be taking here though. What can I do?! I don't have a camera...and at this rate, by the time I manage to compile some shots, I'll be back before you know it. =)
After everyone was lined up in accordance to height, we trooped down to the Hethersett building steps to get in place for the shoot. That part was fine. The not good part was that it was so damn cold my teeth chattered and I was shivering in my supposedly woollen school jumper. Worse still, they wanted a photo with us wearing just our summer dresses. In this kind of weather?!
But well, after everyone was compressed together on the steps, it got a little bit warmer. Then they started asking us to take off our jumpers. Mind you, it didn't look very decent, suddenly this army of girls crammed on 6 levels of 1+ metre wide steps, fidgeting around trying to wriggle out of their jumpers while stuck in a position where you couldn't even lift your elbows.
Finally, everyone did get settled down, and the staff took their places on the chairs in front, and Sam the dog at the feet of Mr. and Mrs. Fearn-Wannan (heads of Boarding House). The school photographer (who looks really dashing) was up on a ladder just opposite, flanked by two branchy, leafy trees. A couple of test shots later, some woman (maybe the gardener) came with a pair of
But it was a pretty interesting photo shoot. I gave my best 'formal, but a happy, smiling kinda formal' smile...under the photographer's orders, we were supposed to look down and at the count of three raise our heads and smile. That way you get a more genuine smile, not one that has been wasting away for three seconds and resembles more a baring of teeth. =) After that, under a few of the girls' requests, we took candid shots. He set the camera so that it took a pic every half-second, directed it at us, and...all hell broke loose. Hahahah, no lah, it didn't. We just did funny things and made funny faces while about 12 or more pix were shot. Kinda fun. =)
Then finally, we could eat. But since we're on the topic of photopraghy, I wish I could send some of the photos taken by one of the boarders in Year 12. It was so...good. They (being her and her sister and sister's friends in Yr. 11) all went down to the pool one day. Only later, when she was uploading the pics off the digicam onto the com that I found out she's been taking underwater shots of them. They were seriously amazing, and the angles and effects, geez, I can't describe it...and a stroll along the corridor of the computer labs was equally interesting, with photoshop creations lining the walls and walls of the labs. Man, the stuff they learn and do here, makes computer lessons back home just seem...feeble and pathetic.
Nothing much I can say about the photos I'm supposed to be taking here though. What can I do?! I don't have a camera...and at this rate, by the time I manage to compile some shots, I'll be back before you know it. =)
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