school trouble session..

The plan is...
to have 'si beben' placed and get registered to a pre-school, which for kids at his age those kind of school is mostly 'play-time'...

The trouble is..
turns out that the registration issue consist of so many things... almost like those bapak-bapak who wants to be a legislative candidates (hehe.. sok tau and sok lebay)
The big thing for me is, they need a formal photograph of him!
Oh my.. this is definitely gonna be a torture for us to make him sit still and do this formal thing called taking STILL pictures the RIGHT waay...

So, here are my options.

Option 1.
Take him to foto studio. Give toys as a bait, then hurry the 'mas-mas' to snap his pictures as bright as possible. One toy, Get set, SNAP! Two toys, get set, SNAP.. SNAP!!

Option 2.
Place him in his homebase. Play his favourite Brainy Baby on the TV. Make him sit nicely on the sofa.. then while he concentrating on the songs and plays in the tube (which usually only happens on the first 5 minutes), take his pictures quickly, then smile gloriously like a champion.


Ok then.
Option 1 turns out to be a big no no..

Option 2 chosen. Brainy Baby on..
Just when he is sit still for 5 minutes. Turns out that formal photograph MUST be taken from straight position. Which means that I have to face the camera in front of his face, right?
Bad idea. He's concentrating on the movie in the tube, not concentrating to the camera, papa!
Here's what I got..





When the 5 minutes deadline is almost over...
I got panicked. This is not a good idea after all.
Then with some wrong settings and twisting button I mistakenly snapped his pictures with flash settings ON. The blitz struck his face for the first time, and suddenly he stunned. Completely forgot the movie for a while, he turns and make the best grin for the camera to take.
Oh my.. this is it!!

I rush him to stand in front of a plain wall. Then snapped his face with pouring flash ligths. And he just make other kind of grin but nothing like a formal photograph should be.







Oh man.. after 15 shots or so in the midst of catching his breath between poses, I manage to take a STILL face of him. FINALLY!!!



And here we go..
look at the final result..



So Headmaster, here's to you!
a formal procedures photograph which doesn't resembles my son's character whatsoever..
Why does it have to so formal, huh?
the grinning face is so much better, kan??

:D