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After a long chat on Facebook, Stephanie turns up for her shoot. I told her I was kinda disappointed. She has a sleek figure like a gazelle, skin that glows from within, a big bright grin that lights up her face and the looks of a young Cindy Crawford-ish, complete with mole! And she’s drinking [...]
I felt like starting this post with “…BECAUSE…” Why have I embarked on the Organics Project and what’s it all about? Because. – Because I can. – Because I’ve been Photoshopping forever. – Because I want to go back to basics. – Because I want to bring honesty, reality and uh, yes, sexy back. – [...]
This is a teaser for the 4×4 of Susn Dybvyk I will be posting here soon(ish) The 4×4 (ie. 4 images across by 4 images down) is a layout I have been doing since 1984 for editorials, gallery work and for clients – except here I have done the sneak peek as a 3×2 (ie. 3 [...]
Now for something completely different! My wife Lillian’s birthday falls around the same time as Christmas so it simultaneously makes buying a gift easy & difficult. She loves photography – and images, but hates my large, heavy, fully loaded cameras – battery grips, batteries, L-series lenses, all of which add up to some kilos. Fuji [...]
[ABOVE: Seriously, is this how good you're allowed to look after an intense, marathon 8-hour shoot?? Cool, poised, and just not raising a sweat? RI-DI-CU-LOUS! There oughta be a law against looking this good after a huge photoshoot! These images are unretouched and SOOC - Straight out of Camera] …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Yesterday, I shot with Susn [...]
Yup! We’re back to Josie again… I have this image I really like of Josie and as I’m working on it, I think, I really shouldn’t mess with it – not much anyway. She looks amazing without any photoshop artifice. – It’s just her and her dancers body, head and hands – a pose so [...]
I’ve gotten it into my head lately that I want to shoot images that are natural, pure, clean – unadulterated by manipulation, makeup, photoshop and post-production. Why? Well, look at my folio – it’s full of what my wife calls loud, colorful and flamboyant posters. Everyone needs change. I’m in temporary change mode. So I’m [...]
So we rock up to a new restaurant, hoping for a pleasant experience but basically we were meeting up with our son for lunch so that was the main thing. We walk in and see a large Día de los Muertos (Mexican festival: day of the dead) picture on the wall and the receptionist in [...]
I had procrastinated seriously on shooting the Christmas projections at St. Mary’s Cathedral in central Sydney, and the last day I could do it was a wet, thundery Christmas day! Ah well, so at the urging of my wife Lillian (who also wanted to shoot it) we went. It was not too bad at the [...]
One would think that the first image ever posted on what was to become the omnipresent, omniscient, World Wide Web or the interwebs as we now call em, would be something geeky, nerdy, technical, technological. I don’t know, banks of computers, circuit boards, chips, ram, recording media – something…specially since it originated at CERN – [...]
Did you ever wonder:
- How do those great photographers have so much fun - and get paid for it? In large sacks of cash?
- How do YOU get started doing exactly the same?
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- And, importantly, where can you get this without opening your wallet?
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