Snapshot -things that make you feel nostalgic- / May 18, 2019 by harumi

Old flower trees and a little tea cup from your childhood.

and an old house you’ve seen since little.

Snapshot -things that make you feel safe- / May 12, 2019 by harumi

Eating an artificial lemon-chocolate cake (but baked by your family) and drinking non-alcoholic beer outside.

My dream came true with MOGAYOGA / May 3, 2019 by harumi

It was my dream at 19 that I’d be a shop decorator for Anthropologie.
It was one of the goals that I do my own business with art and photography.

Now, I feel things are getting closer to it.

A lot of appreciation to MOGAYOGA to allow me being in your world and adding my perspective into your vision.

So happy to collaborate with her, her brand for crafting something that provides values to someone’s life.
I hope that will lead me to the next chance to touch amazing people and products, and surely, I’ll keep going for creatives.

Thank you so much for this opportunity, MOGAYOGA and everyone who made this catalog published!

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Film -Travel with the 60s Olympus PEN-D- / April 16, 2019 by harumi

After cleaning up my grandma’s house, we found a film camera, Olympus PEN-D from the 60s.

It took me for years to start using this camera, but finally, I had a chance to use this camera traveling to Taiwan last Dec and March. So here is the first try to photograph with a film camera, the 60s Olympus PEN-D. It did not go that well, but texture and colors came out so warmly. I feel loved in photos, a lot of flowers in the town, sneaking a peak life of them, walking everywhere with trains.

I still need a lot of practice not to get photos to be so blurry… I hope you enjoy the film style and feel ok with where you are now.

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How to do styling for flat-lay still life photography / March 27, 2019 by harumi

Flat-lay. Yes, I love flat-lay photography. It’ because the style gives me a lot of creative freedom, and I can do anything with goods to make something appealing through photographs.

I used to say, “I don’t know, just go with the flow.“, Not considering repeat and the process of creating. But does it really say “creative“?? If I cannot vocalize how the process of my creativity pops out.

So today, after thinking about my process of creating flat-lay, and how I got to this point, where the final image comes out, I am going to leave 3 tips for flat-lay photography for people who are interested in collage, photography, or styling.

Hope you get something, some ideas from this post.

1. Get everything connected

Pick the main item for your theme. Bring related things that could get along with the main item.

For example, Theme: feminine, aesthetic beauty/softness > female symbolic item > perfume (the main thing)

Perfume > fashion > Coco Channel > the 20s hat

Perfume > cosmetics > lip sticks

Perfume > sophisticated > modern stylish > Tech > Apple > MacBook (lucky my MacBook cover is pinky marble)

Perfume > gorgeous > flowers > roses

2. Add the main supportive item > the other perfumes.

4. Add the victorian hat roses, and a Macbook.

2. Practice your imagination with words

In tip#1, “get everything connected,“ it’s about what you connect similar interests into all the same categories. But to do so, you might need to practice to come up with a connection of words. Imagination and creation to unify and gather all things together. Play with words.

To practice imagination and creation, I recommend doing “color styling.“ Color styling is that you name colors of clothing as if you were a stylist for some clothing brand. Think about what words you can use to describe a dress to get consumers to know about the dress, and how you can present its attraction

Here are my examples by using my closet.

3. Input words and make captions for scenes

To practice imagination by naming colors of clothing, you might want to input words giving your creativity in your daily life.

Here what I do.

You take notes something you eat, hear, or see in food, tea, sweets, etc.., leave colors as an adjective to describe things that come up in your mind.

For example,

If I had a chamomile tea before bed, I would leave a note,
“white-yellow chamomile tea brings me a calm night.“

If I had a banana pancake for breakfast, I would leave a note,
“a delicious brown banana pancake with Canadian golden maple syrup.“

If I see mints growing up at the balcony, I would leave a note,
“a dessert for tonight would be green-green mint chocolate chip vanilla ice cream? Or minty flavor sorbet? or pinky peach cobbler with mint and white-cream on the side?“

If I hear birds singing outside, I leave a note,
“hummingbirds singing for bright pink cherry blossom and moss-green leaves coming after.“

Practice.

Those are photos and drawings of mine. How do you make captions for them paralleled with colors and words?