Year: 2016

Today’s entry presents variations on a theme, or more specifically each picture below is a different crop of the same original shot.  What is interesting, in my mind, is how different each variation is.  As an aside, it offers some justification for high mega-pixel count to enable various different crops without loosing too much detail.…

The image here is part of the same series I looked at yesterday, but in colour and with a bit more focus (notably on the eyes).  From what I could see, Corrine Day softened the colours in her images, so this picture reflects similar processing.  The approach I use to soften the colours — rather than…

In this series I explored shots that were a little grainier and softer focus.  I applied a Split Toning layer in post-processing (Highlights: Hue [52]; Saturation [26]; Shadows: Hue [215]; Saturation [23]) to soften the harshness of pure black & white.  

I recently completed a fashion shoot; my first one.  Our first goal was to shoot high-key, in a style sometimes used by fashion photographer Corrine Day. “A high-key photo is basically white on white. This style of photography conveys a feeling of lightness and clarity.” [1] Many of Day’s photographs were in black and white, but if…