Fashion Wars and Fashion Stuffs!

Okay, so the thing has a name... but I forgot what it was o.O
Anyways;


Fashion shows are awesome!!!!!!! :O
This was my first fashion experience, and it was great! I got some great shots, which would have been better without the complications. But oh well, that's why I need to get pro, so I don't have to deal with the annoyances of being unknown! ;)


One day...


Anyhoo...
The reason I went to this whole fashion thing was because my sister was doing this thing called Fashion Wars with some other people. There were three groups of fashion designers from the Houston Art Institute (I think that's what it's called o.O). They all had a WEEK to design an outfit inspired by some charity. My sister's was somethingoranother heart something. Something for hearts :)


Here's their design:

Front View 

Back View

So as you can see, they made and ADORABLE mini dress! :) 

I wish I had gotten better pictures, but it caught me off guard when she came out! I was expecting the dresses to like walk in together or something... I don't know, but I wasn't ready! :( I think when I got shows the dress well enough though. :)

Here are the other two designs:


Group 2 (Inspired by some Earth charity thing called Bark)

Group 3 (Inspired by... a children's art charity... or something like that... I should have paid more attention :/) Also the winning dress

Now, aside from Fashion Wars, the actual thing that puts this on (which is called Fashion Now, as I smartly looked at the background in some of my photos to figure out ;) ) had fashion shows for various stores. Let me tell you, I just wanted to buy everything!

Favourite picture, dress, and model of the night!

Honestly, I'm not really a fashion follower, I just don't bother paying attention. I wish I would though.. I will admit to watching shows like Project Runway and America's Next Top model. But I don't watch ANTM for the modeling :P


As I'm watching ANTM I'll try and pick out what the photographers are doing and why. I actually pause the show just so I can examine the photo set up. It's hard since the show is just focusing on drama. :/


They should make a show for photographers like ANTM or project runway! >:( Liiiike... Project Top Photographer or something >.<


Sorry for the topic detour :3


Anyways, these are my favourite pictures of the night :3

hmmm...

My favourite collection was a close tie between some store that carried mostly formal clothes, and with the swimwear shop. Oh my goodness their clothes were so cute!!! I want those shorts soooo bad! 

I really like the contrast in this photo

for some reason... there's just something

about it that I love:)

Charming Charlies Accessories 

More swim wear :) 

Now for the worst part of the night! The challenges!

Trust me, there were plenty of challenges to go around...

Let's start with the most annoying, and most common one (that I got):

You're kind of in my shot. 

 Being the small, insignificant 16 year old that I am, I have to settle with the not-so-front row. With this, comes the front row people deciding that they are going to do anything in their power to make sure you don't get a clear shot. (I'm kidding, of course :3.) The worse point was when the two guys in front of me decided to lean in as closetoeachother as possible... I tried to swerve to avoid it, but I only got a crooked picture with part of the guys camera in the picture -------->
You give it time! Eventually I'll be the one in the front row all like "MWAHAHAHAHA MY TURN NOW >DDD"


...Maybe.
:3

You look like you need a hand... here's a hand.

 I actually didn't notice this while I was taking the photos, but when I went to review them, I found this creeper hand in like 30 of my photos! Drove me mad because It ruined some of my favourites :(

All lit up

Some of the photographers brought along their flashes, which sometimes would leak into my photos! :O

All in all, it was a wonderful experience! I loved seeing all the fashion, and I learned a lot. :) 

I tried to use some of what I have picked up on runway photography... the best shot being when their stride is at it's longest, waiting until their pose is at the point with least movement, etc... but it's harder than it looks! I wish I had a tripod with me... oh well, maybe next time. :)