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The final shoot went well as working with my family brought us closer together. However, there are a few factors I wish I could’ve change for my project.

It was challenging to get both my mum and sister together because at the time school was still on and I had to wait for my sister to come home at 3pm when I had loads of free time in my hand. My mum is a nurse and usually only has one day off or on the weekends when I usually work she’d have a day off. All-in-all I made the shoot worth while for my two models and thought it was fun.

Firstly I used my little sister for the shoot since she came home earlier than my mum.

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With my little sister’s shoot I managed to create more ways to play with the primary colours I wanted to use to represent the Philippine flag this is because she is more comfortable and was keen to model.

On my Filipino tribe posts, I mentioned about basing their outfits on them and due to limited sources I did the best I could. Firstly I wrapped my mum’s yellow scarf over my little sister’s waist as a skirt and my headscarf as her tube top seen in the pictures.

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Secondly I dressed her up as one of the “The Kataas-taasang, Kagalang-galangang Katipunan ng mga Anak ng Bayan”, also known as Katipunan or KKK; this was a Philippine revolutionary society founded by anti-Spanish colonialism Filipinos in Manila in 1892. To represent patriotism to the country. (No, this has nothing to do with the the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

Also shown is the babayin script “tattooed” (I used henna) on her arm to further represent her Filipino blood, however, it did not appear well so there were not a lot of close-ups of this.

On the same day was my mum’s day off so I managed to capture a mother-daughter moment; my sister is actually half English half Filipino, therefore, capturing her and my mum together shows where she got her Filipino side from and how proud she is.

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Moreover, due to the low light situation some of my shots were darker and blurrier than intended. Also I shot all of this at around 7-8:30pm because it was when everyone was free and it was just before my sister’s bedtime so I did not have enough time with my mum also due to the fact that she studies for her own university work. But I still manage to capture some shots with my mum nonetheless.

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Although, I could have had another shoot there was not enough time due to having to send my photobook to print.