snipshots

Monday, 8 February 2010

raiiiin!

rain.

which
means
bokeh
in my windysill!

and these
my friends
have not
been
re
touched

Also I beg you to see that the words above from the outline of a man with a top hat and bow tie. This is deeply significant and whoever figures out why gets a hidden surprise because I don't know why either.

hey look! it's a
scarecrow now!
these are mo
anyway I'm done.

-
favyret.

sigh.

Lightroom
is quite wearing on one's convictions about editing.
For instance consider.

One can start with this

and end with this.

It's fast. It's easy. It's stunning.

And it's......cheap. I know. Really I do. I will develop my skills and chase skies that actually are blue. Honest. I will not fall prey to the fast food microwave approach to photography. No sirree.

Except maybe just a tiny bit?

Oh, very well. My trial subscription is dead in twelve days as is.
Even strict dieters splurge every now and then. 12 more days and it's back to strict training. No empty processing calories unless I get some good shots sooc.

Or maybe we could make it almost sooc? After all, what's a little contrast bump?

...

sigh.

Saturday, 30 January 2010

a little breather

From all the edited whimsies. Here are some sooc's from the trip to youthus groupus.

a few of these were taken from the window of a movin' vehicle, so not much time for composition...but the sky was really lovely.

a few more from the portrait shootimus

I do believe in faeries...I do...I do...

[hehe awkward face]

tedderoo.

my favorite wall & its piles of construction material!

annnd

Tuesday, 19 January 2010

lightroom

I'm using a free trial of the post processing Lightroom software and having an absolute BALL.

exhibit A:

Exhibit B:

Exhibit C:

Exhibit D:

Exhibit E (what a good letter to end on :D) :

more feribots coming soon.

Monday, 18 January 2010

[g]rainy days

You know, weather forecasts are handy. Really handy. If you read them.

Which I made the mistake of not doing when I finally agreed on Wednesday for some pictures with Madmoiselle F. And it rained. The day prior, the day of, the day after. What did we do, we chic little amateur little model photoggy team?

We decided to go out and try anyway.

Lesson learned #1 - On a very cloudy day it is very cloudy and hence difficult to find out where the light is coming from.
Lesson learned #2 - There's a reason the direction of lighting is crucial in photoggishness. Light is more important than that awesome green wall you wanted to shoot at. If green wall is in shade go elsewhere. Please.
Lesson learned #3 - Always check your viewfinder. Because if you don't you may just find your ISO/F-stop combination has all your twilight photos completely blacked out. True story! I did some massive exposure tweaking in a free Lightroom trial and got this:

which red tone was, I admit, not quite the look I was going for. But, thanks to my free Lightroom trial, I was able to edit some of the shots into semi-respectability. Semi.

So meet Madmoiselle F. and her faithful companion...Tedders.

Haha, exhibit A of me resorting to cracking jokes to get a smile...and getting a laugh instead (;

(: muaha

...and rocking the one-eyed smile :P

Haha, so my ideas for poses could use a liiiiiitle work. :D

transssition.

tedddders

The half smile is Mm'selle F's speciality. In case it were not noticed.

I like her almond eyes (:

we musn't forget Tedders.

-

nor the loverly daisy flo'r.

anyway.
then it got even DARKER. except we thought there might be some sunset at the sahil -
there warsn't.
so the pictures turned out like this: grainy day.