Contrast

I love the way I was able to breathe some color into this picture. The original image was quite dark and had a brownish tint to it. A few filters from photoshop later and the skin has a nice healthy color. Love the contrast! As usual, I must thank my lovely model for putting up with me. Love you GG :)

Nom nom nom!

 

 

After viewing the last entry I decided to post a few more shots of food. I don't normally take pictures of every meal I eat but every now and then, if the plate has a nice presentation, I will try to take a nice shot. All of these pictures have been taken on the fly, meaning that there has been no special lighting nor any special preparation. Most of the times, when I take pictures of food, it will be because I'm covering some special event and there's some catering service involved. I've been asked if I get to enjoy the delicacies presented before me and normally I don't have time to savour them. Either I'm too busy trying to get a nice action shot of people in a candid atmosphere and I don't notice the food disappearing or I just scoop it in so I can continue with the shoot. My bad!

Yum!

Spring 2010

Jennifer Eccles

This is a picture from a shoot we did quite a while ago. I thought I'd play around with it a bit and noticed that I have forgotten a lot of tricks regarding retouching techniques. Luckily there are a whole bunch of tutorials on youtube that anybody can watch and learn these techniques in no time.

Thanks again to Jennifer Eccles for helping out in this shoot ;)

Yummm...

Almost 5 pm and all I can think of is a tall glass of milk and a couple of these muffins. That's what occurs when you're sorting out pictures and you come across events in which food has been served. As a photographer for the event, you don't get to enjoy much of these pleasantries unfortunately. On the other hand, doing a photo shoot is always fun and it doesn't feel like work.

Rachel Halfpenny

Chris Donald / 2

Photo shoot / Chris Donald

Perfect day

Morning dew

Spring Festival 5

Spring Festival 4

Spring Festival 3

Spring Festival 2

Spring Festival 1

The Spring Festival is in bloom. This is the first picture of a series that I shall be putting up. I don;t know the names of most of the flowers but they can be seen in the Botanical Gardens of Wellington, New Zealand.

Spring has sprung...?

Just two weeks ago we were all basking under the sun. The days were so warm that it almost felt like summer had arrived early. It's unbelievable that for the past two days the temperature has dropped down to 9•C. It's like winter all over again!! I guess I should be used to these crazy temperature changes, after all it is Wellington. They say: "if you don't like the weather, just wait 15 minutes". I so can't wait for the nice hot days.

This picture was taken a few weeks ago. I had the intention of going down to the Botanical Gardens to take some pictures of the tulips but it started to rain. will have to postpone until the weather improves a bit.

Field hockey

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Balance