Tonight,
I was organizing all the photo data
from the "Midnight Carousel" shoot.
ā¦and wow.
There were WAY too many files.
The moment I opened the folder,
I literally wentā
"Whoaā¦"
Neon lights.
Ferris wheels.
Stage lights.
The night stage itself.
Back then,
everything was happening so fast,
I didn't even realize
how much we had actually shot.
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When you organize photos like this,
the memories start coming back little by little.
š©µ Ruka
"ā¦Ah,
I was running around so much back then."
Moving across the stage.
Checking the monitors.
Filming again.
Fixing my hair.
Then running again.
Looking back now,
I was basically moving nonstop.
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And while going through the files,
I even started remembering
the conversations we had during the shoot.
š§” Hinata
"Hey, hey!
Wasn't my jump super high just now!?"
š©µ Ruka
"Yeah,
so high you disappeared out of frame lol."
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Then there was Rei,
adjusting the lighting.
š§ Rei
"ā¦Make the light
a little more blue."
š©µ Ruka
"You really notice that much?"
š§ Rei
"I do."
Honestly,
that made me laugh a little.
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And when I looked at Shizuku's photosā
š Shizuku
"It feels kind of dreamy, doesn't it?"
The moment she said that,
the whole atmosphere actually
started feeling like a dream.
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And Aineā
š©· Aine
"Wait!
Don't post that picture!!"
The funny thing is,
the photos she didn't want uploaded
were usually the cutest ones.
She probably still hasn't realized it herself.
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Also,
the neon lights from Midnight
look completely different in photos.
The reflections.
The way the colors blend together.
It really feels like
the photos captured the night itself.
š©µ Ruka
"ā¦I think I really like this."
Before I realized it,
I'd been staring at the same photo
for ages.
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Even blurry photos,
or shots with too much lightā
I didn't hate them.
Actually,
I liked how they still carried
the feeling of that moment.
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Thinking back on it nowā¦
the MixPalette from that night
felt a little different.
It wasn't a live show.
It wasn't an ordinary photoshoot either.
But somehowā
it was unmistakably
"Midnight Carousel."
š©µ Ruka
"ā¦I want to shoot something like this again."
Thinking that,
I saved just one favorite neon photo
before closing the folder š
To Be Continued...