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date with the night





















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!

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graffiti and noise


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.

x

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atoms




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.

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between two lungs


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.

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