Creative Monsoon: photography

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On - Thursday 8 January 2009

I bought a new mobile phone a few months ago, finally got one with a little camera built in. Its not very flash but still three times the resolution of my very first digital camera.

Ive always wanted to carry a camera with me all the time, but now I have to remind myself its there.

This weekend we went to Manly and I remember to use my camera.

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The Seine

On - Sunday 4 January 2009

Another photo ready to be added to the website for sale this week. Perhaps I went for a green tone to this one because I was still in a Christmasy mood?

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Happy New Year

On - Thursday 1 January 2009

Happy New Year from Sydney

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More Paris pics

On - Wednesday 3 December 2008

Finished another print today ready to sell after Christmas. Another shot of Paris from earlier this year.

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On - Thursday 13 November 2008

Im busy getting photos ready to sell on the creative monsoon website, going through the last 4years worth of photos. I came across a nice shot taken in Italy last year but I thought the bike was a little too modern, so I swapped it for an old moped from another image.

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Cross-processed photo featured

On - Sunday 9 November 2008

I forgot to mention we were featured in the Autumn issue of the Uks Digital Camera magazine with this cross processed photo taken in Italy earlier this year.

Prints will be for sale one I get the gallery up and running! Soon I hope.

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Jacaranda tree

On - Monday 3 November 2008

You've got to love a place that has purple trees! We're starting to settle into our new home in Sydney and I've started to get back into some artwork. These are a few tests for a series of work I'd like to do on Jacaranda trees. They are flowering at the moment and Sydney is covered in purple patches.

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Italy Wedding photoshop effect

On - Saturday 11 October 2008

Finally found the photoshop effect we've been looking for to create dramatic, gritty-looking images. The effect is great for close ups but the first few steps of it also work well for wedding images:

Duplicate layer. On background copy layer select high pass about 5 the change layer blending to overlay. Duplicate original layer again and move to the top. Desaturate and select hard light.

(Stop here for most images)

Flatten image, duplicate layer and apply high pass again, change layer blending to overlay.

Flatten again. Create new adjustment layer, curves and lighten the whole image.

Click on the layer mask thumbnail and invert. Set foreground colour to white and using a soft brush paint over the eyes to brighten them.

Create a new layer and select a good eye colour, select the blend mode of this layer to colour and paint over the eyes.

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Amanda and Dans Wedding

On - Wednesday 24 September 2008

Shot our first Sydney wedding last weekend. Some shots worked quite well with the cross processed effect but the saturation toned down.

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Fortnum and Mason

On - Friday 8 August 2008

Fortnum and Mason in Piccadilly - full of very yummy things in very pretty packaging

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Wedding pics

On - Thursday 7 August 2008

We shot some extra wedding pics for friends this weekend, a good chance to try out some nice photoshop effects. This is using the zoom effect from the distressed finished process but I didnt add the texture at the end. It's made the background very dark and given a nice soft focus.