im listening to the almost famous & the boat that rocked soundtracks and they are amazing.
models: alexi le trash & joji watanbe
makeup artist: judith joan
check out the editoral i did for thirst for vision magazine: http://issuu.com/thirstforvision/docs/issue_4
they gave me the theme "wild" and this is what i created!
one night i went to watch and photograph midnight horizon at their rehearsal studio. you can find links to
their music here: www.midnighthorizonmusic.com
im hoping we'll be working on a video clip soon to one of their awesome new songs *hint hint* :) also
on their blog are more photos dan & matt took on film that i don't think i posted here.
last friday night i shot thirsty merc at the metro. it was the first time i got an actual physical photographer's
pass woot! there were two support bands, lucy hall, who sounded a lot like florence and the machine
with a pretty voice and ukulele and the white bats, who are in the first five photos of this post. he rest of
the pictures are of thirsty merc! the photographer's pit for this show was amazingly spacious, there were
only about five of us taking pictures;
two of whom sat down, so there were really only three of us running back and forth. so, five people
compared to the about ten at the last show i shot, which was midnight juggernauts, really makes me happy haha.
this is the first of about a million and one blog posts to come this week!
i got some 35mm film developed and every time i look at the pictures it makes me so so happy. i don't
know, there is just something about film that can never ever be recreated with digital.
some more posts to come soon! this is from one of the midnight horizon rehearsals in the studio, a few
months ago now i think. dan scanned them in for me :)
model: lexi
this is from a shoot we had a while ago. i feel like playing around with textures and things lately, and i
really like how this turned out. here are the steps i took:
so i grabbed the original image, and i wanted it to be a square crop but there wasn't enough wall around
for the composition i wanted. so i went ahead and stretched the wall, paintings bits in and using the
healing brush and stamp tool like crazy.
then i edited the colours using my curves actions. i made it look really washed out in colours, but punchy
in the tones. to get the final picture, i layered a few long shutter photos i took while dan was driving
around. because of the red/purple hue to those night shots and the layer style i had them on, they really
enhanced the colours of the image awesomly! overall i adjusted the curves a little more - darkened just
the blacks and made the whole image lighter to match the graffiti lights.
was thinking of making a series out of this? but if i do, i want to make them all quite different looking to
each other. the same thing again and again just like this would probably be boring..
anyway - prepare for a few more blog posts tonight! im home doing nothing.
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i've been listening to the eternal sunshine of the spotless mind soundtrack on repeat and one of the songs
backwards and i feel very inspired. today i thought i'd layer some images like i used to do a few years
ago. i keep thinking that i can't go back to this style because it seems childish, but today it doesn't
bother me at all.
there will be a few more blog posts soon, including a post with film photos. and today i will be taking
photos of people when they don't know it. spontaneous photos are magic.
i don't know what sparked it, but today i decided to go back and create some pictures in style of my older
work. this is what i got! here are the steps i took to create it:
this is the original image, stock from sxc.hu
so first i cropped the photo. i kind of liked the little town on the right hand side of the image and clouds
on the left, so to not lose that in the cropping, i selected each side of the picture individually and
transformed it. then with layer masks i just painted the edges back so they would blend. it is subtle, but i
still think it makes a difference.
with curves i continued adjusting the colours of the image until i was happy. the sun looked pretty low in
the image, but everything still had middle of the day lighting, so i thought it would look more dramatic if
i added warmness.
last but not least i added my famous birds (my own image), and moved the birds around so it looked like
they were sweeping into the tree. i did the left had side first, then copied the layer and flipped it. with
layer masks i got rid of a few birds here and there on either side as well so it wouldn't look too identical.
model tamika
makeup olivia
when everything falls into place
water curls around your skin
the shore kisses your cold feet
model: sophie crenigan
mua: judith joan
today's shoot was so much fun! i had a wonderful team to work with, and i think the photos came out amazingly :) hope you enjoy!