Photoshoot in Central Park

“Go stand over there,” Steven ordered, “no wait, go a little more to the side, I need more light otherwise the picture’s going to come out bad.”

“You’re embarrassing me by making me do all these random poses in front of passersby!” I argued with him.

I met up with my friend, Steven, to take photographs for the collage project due in a couple of weeks. Since I wanted to take many pictures of nature as well as the humans’ effect on nature, I decided to use his expert photography skills to capture every image I wanted portrayed in the collage.

Knowing him since high school, Steven was always fascinated with photography and photoshopping photographs he took or finding images online and enhancing them to the potential he wanted them to be. I always thought it was a mere hobby of his until I saw how he was performing today. He carried around his messenger bag filled with his alternate lenses for his camera.

Carefully angling himself to the direction of the image he wanted to capture, he would walk around a couple of inches here and there until he took the perfect photograph. As a deal for coming out of his house, I was required to have my photographs taken as well… At first it was really uncomfortable considering we were in public and he would stop me literally every couple of feet, but I grew to realize that this was his way of perfecting his photographing skills.

As the sun went down, I sat down with him on a park bench as he showed off his photographs to me, and I was impressed. His constant switching of camera lenses paid off, as well as arranging me and the setting of Central Park in accordance with the amount of lighting the sun provided; his past photoshoots with his friends definitely paid off in his photography skills.