It's Christmas time again...

Tis Christmas once again and the 'snow pic' requests have started once more. This one is a local council promotion. The original shoot was outside with a range of images including polystyrene being cut up and blown out of the models hands but the photographer, Simon Graham, persuaded the client to go for a more artistic finish to the image and brought it back to the studio for production.

It's Montage Month...

I haven't been hiding under a rock since April, just working on a new website (www.creditcardwinner.co.uk), getting engaged on holiday and then all of a sudden working on more montages in one month than I have in the past two years.
I've produced 8 in total ranging from 2'x3' to 6' high and all to deadline, some examples of which are below. Working with these files is always exciting due to the planning required for layout, image resizing and the practical file sizes - some are over 600mb for the final PSD file.

10 Years of EasyJet at Belfast International Airport:

Rally Stage at Parliament Buildings:

Devolution Day at Stormont:

United States Investment Conference Northern Ireland 2008:

Balmoral Furniture / Bar Retro interiors:

Photo Restoration

Every once in a while I get asked to do a restoration job but the images vary from colour correction to complete restoration. These are samples of the latest originals and fixes...

Latest Work...

This is a shoot I undertook myself specifically for the purpose of 'magazine style' editing. Mother and Daughter, Rosie and Kharis kindly agreed to take part in the shoot in return for prints and to see the edited versions of themselves. (In the industry it's called 'Time for Prints' or TFP). Kharis is an actor and has appeared in some high profile films including Run Fat Boy Run so getting head shots or portrait style images wasn't new to her.
It was shot locally on a bright morning with a little additional flash. Each image was then edited to two levels; lighting and skin first; artistic second.
The lighting and skin edit touchs up blemishes, evens out skin tonality and tidies up any stray hair.
The artistic edit takes the image beyond the look of the original subject to create a completely new look: