Sunday night Kim and I was looking after Ethan and Kayla while Chong and KC went out for dinner.
Kims
dad and Dylan popped over for a couple of hours (Kims dad wanted to see
Aiden ;-)) and after dinner and after Aiden was asleep I set up the
studio to take some portraits of the kids. Main purpose was to
experiment a little to improve my photography skills...especially my study of shadows (It is easy to light, but harder to create meaningful shadows).
Lately I
have been doing more photography using all my flashes with wireless
triggers to get interesting angles and effects. A couple of days ago I
bought a couple of pieces of fabric in different colours (blue and red)
to use as backgrounds and the following photos are a result of Sunday
nights photoshoot.
I used one flash camera right in a 60*60 softbox, Hair light behind
camera left snooted. In retrospect I should have taken my 3rd flash and
used this to light the coloured backdrops to create better seperation...the highlights above are done in Post processing.
27. September 2010 12:21
by Rene Pallesen
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I had a bit of fun on the weekend and spent a little time using photoshop doing something different for a self portrait. Just a bit of fun for a Facebook profile photo.
It took me about 5 minutes to take the photo and about 25-45 in photoshop to modify the image.
After taking the image I modified the background, de-saturated the colours, saturated the green colours, added the cat-eye contact lenses and extended the canine teeth slightly...done! Not perfect, but good enough for what I wanted to try and accomplish.
19. September 2010 10:31
by Rene Pallesen
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This week there was a big low pressure system of the coast of Tasmania resulting in 18 meter waves there. It was predicted that some of this swell would hit Sydney this weekend resulting in 3-4 meter waves on south facing beaches. This Saturday morning I went down to Maroubra to have a look...The waves weren't as big as I had expected, but there were lots of surfers there and I did manage to take a couple of reasonable photos (I may try again tomorrow).
I am sure that there were a lot of professional/semi professional surfers out there, but unfortunately I would not be able to recognise anyone. Some of the photos I took with my 28-200mm lens which is super sharp. I also took some with an old 500mm mirror lens...it is reasonable ok...but almost impossible to keep in focus.
10. September 2010 11:05
by Rene Pallesen
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Some people have said that Aiden looks like me (mostly) and some says that he looks more like Kim.
Here is a photo of Kim and I with Aiden as well as my mum holding me after I was born (I think):
I REST MY CASE!!!!!