My Take on St. Louis Fashion Week

I went to cover the St. Louis Fashion Week last week and I hope to submit the piece for the Missourian. The Missourian editor asked me about the local ties of the story since the fashion week happened in St. Louis. I managed to find interns from Stephens College and MU by sending out random emails to anyone on the fashion week list serv. How did I have access to the list serv? I had always been interested in either doing a piece or working backstage at the fashion week. So I already sent out the internship coordinator an email long time ago before it all happened.

From my previous experience, covering a fashion show is very exhilarating. The exuberant vibe in the room usually has gotten into me and I'm just happy all the way when I cover the event. This time, it pretty much works the same beside some minor mishaps. There was no problem with the interviews at all, everything went great. I borrowed a camera from a friend and this is where it all started. The backstage: dim-lighted. Not good for taking pictures at all especially if the camera is nothing fancy. The backstage crowd: clamorous. The breathing space: none.




Photos: Dea Surjadi

I took a lot of quite good Sephia pictures but the others are just ruined by the flash or by the darkness factor. Everything is either too dark or you get the you-know-it's-dark-but-you-made-up-the-light-using-flash kind of thing. This has also made me realized that I need to work on my photography skill. Not only to get killer detail shots or scene-setter shots, but just to get a decent shot from a normal angle is sometimes still challenging for me especially when lighting comes as a factor too.