My daughter has just come home from a friend’s birthday ‘pamper’ party where they all had their hair, nails and makeup done.
I took the opportunity to rattle off a few frames before she has to return to normality for high school tomorrow.
I’m not a big fan of heavily photoshopped portraits with super smooth unblemished, tango coloured skin, on a size zero female.
I’ve literally made some contrast changes and lifted the eyes ever so gently, and removed one or two spots that are appearing. Hover over the shot for the original.
Not much thought went into the shot except for location (living room), choice of lens (70-200 F4L), lighting (bounced flash) FEC (+ 2/3 IIRC), and a little editing.

It was my son’s 5th birthday earlier this week, and naturally the camera came out. I caught him trying to blow two balloons up at the same time (unsuccessfully I might add).
I’ve also been trying new processing styles, using the tutorials from Chromasia.

On the 3rd January 2008, I started a project called a ’365′. A photographic self portrait every day…..for a year.
I’m pleased to say I completed the project, and didn’t miss one day. Here is the finished slideshow containing all 367 photos (leap year plus one extra).

As I promised at the start of the year, some photos are creative, some funny, some sad, some simple, some complex. But one thing they all are, is of me. And they’re all honest.

As many people know I’ve suffered from depression for a while, on and off, and this year was no exception. Taking the daily self portrait helped me through some of the darker days, as did the words of encouragement by the followers on flickr and Talk Photography.

Onto the slideshow. I know it’s alot of photos to view, but I’ve kept the transitions short and the length of each photo to 1 second. The whole slideshow is only 13 minutes, and contains three music tracks.

The music is quite important to the slideshow, so please view with speakers on. I went through my complete itunes collection (about 6000 tracks), to choose the most suitable ones. All three tracks, the lyrics actually mean something and do well to describe ‘me’. How I think and how I feel.

Anyway, just click the image above to play and enjoy.

Thanks for watching (There are also some messages at the end).

This is one of many many shots I took of two models back in December 07. It was my very first foray into studio work, and it was extremely rewarding. I walked away with many “keepers”, and an invaluable insight into the world of studio photography with models.