What are you taking pictures of with my camera? Lying on the sofa just now, this question suddenly popped into my head. Usually, others hold the camera and take pictures of me; today, it's rare that I'm holding the camera myself, so I might as well use this black and white outfit maid outfit styling to do a role-reversal photography daily life session.
This outfit is a very classic black and white outfit maid outfit. The headpiece is white ruffles, paired with blunt bangs and dark brown long straight hair, looking relatively quiet overall. The outer black long-sleeved jacket is slightly loose, with a gold button on the chest. Inside is a white ruffled shirt and apron, and the visual impact between black and white is very strong. The black skirt hem of the lower body paired with white socks and exposed calves has just the right contrast against the dark grey sofa background. I usually quite like this kind of black and white outfit clothes, because no matter how you shoot, it's not easy to make mistakes, and the effect of setting off skin tone is very good. With white ruffles and black fabric interlaced, just organizing the skirt hem and cuffs can capture a lot of details.
The Canon 35mm camera in my hand has a blue camouflage sticker pasted on the body, which is quite recognizable when paired with the all-black lens. The walkaround lens is a Canon 35mm, and this focal length is really suitable for indoor portrait. 35mm can not only account for the environment well, but also capture the proportions of the person quite naturally, without too exaggerated perspective. When lying on the sofa, I was thinking, if it were a mirror selfie at this moment or having someone else take it, how should the parameters for this Canon 35mm lens be set. The light is not particularly bright, relying entirely on a bit of natural light filtering through the window. So if taking pictures, the aperture needs to be opened wider to ensure the amount of light intake, while slightly blurring the sofa in the background. The blue sticker stands out extremely vividly in this black, white, and grey environment, adding a slightly different feeling to the whole frame.
Actually, holding a camera as a prop is really much easier than posing empty-handed. Both hands have a place to rest, the gaze can pretend to look at the lens, or look at the screen, or even imitate the look of focusing. I intentionally placed my mobile phone next to the skirt, presenting a sense of daily life thrown aside casually. Cradling into the sofa with legs naturally extended and slightly raised at an angle makes the frame look more relaxed. Usually used to striking all sorts of complex poses in front of the lens, occasionally being a bit casually laid-back at home like this actually yields better photos.
Sometimes after shooting too many complex studio and location shoots, returning to the simplest sofa, using the most basic light and single props, makes it easier to see what you want to express. For example, this overhead perspective actually tests the control over the edges of the frame; if the composition is too full, it will look oppressive, and if too loose, it will look hollow. Placing the figure in the lower middle of the frame, using the dark color block of the sofa to anchor the center of gravity of the frame, and then letting the white socks and the camera's blue sticker form visual embellishments, the sense of layering in the frame emerges.
This set of pictures is still in the camera; I just casually took a behind-the-scenes shot with my phone. Let's ponder up to here for today, getting ready to export the photos and see the final result. I wonder if the final colors can restore that slightly cool-toned home texture in my mind. Once I finish editing the photos, there might be a bunch of new ideas and parameter adjustment thoughts.