Happy Birthday Maya

Tonight we went up to see a friends whos birthday it was in the week, Just a few drinks as we did not have the money.

An old friend who I have not seen out in a while poped by, Nice to see you out and about! The guys plan was to head off to Gallery at ministry of sound tonight but we had other plans.

A drink each and one for the birthday girl was the plan and then something to eat afterwards.

Photos will be up in a little while, once I've got them on the main computer

Wet is very wet!!

Tonight me and fluff had a little look around HMV and got to new games

Lost Odyssey & Wet...

While lost odyssey is a JRPG (Japanese role-playing game) and were going to get 40 hours up from the 4 disk game (When was the last time you saw a game on 4 fucking disk's) It looks great and with its turn basted action, Fluffy could work it as well.

And then there is Wet, A through back to the grand house films that were coming out a year or to back. Cross "The club" and "Strangle Hold" and then you have Wet. For everything bad you could do with a game and still put it out.

The things we do to kil time before Call of Duty comes out in a few months (Nov 2010)

I'm going on a photography course!

Today I was meant to go up to see my family and work out with my brother, I woke up and just felt like shit, my fever was high and (I'm told) I looked like shit. Both my GF and my mum told me to go back to bed, and I do as I'm told (sometimes)

Fluff needed to go to college to re enrol for her dance lessens and I was feeling a little better so i headed up there with her, I was looking at the photography courses and found something just for me, Its starting in Jan so its not for a few months but I'm looking forward to it.

Little gems on the net

Just checking the escapist for zero-punctuation this week and I found this little gem, have a look see

This is Extra Credits, and its something a little different

Names in Lights

Last night we went to the film premier of a friend of mine, it was her producer debue and a shot film called eating scarlet, There was a great turn out and we went out for some food afterwards.

Karen has been working her arss off for months to get the movie ready before she heads off to the U.S, I'm sure this film will pop up around the arty crow so keep your eyes open as I is a good one

Teaching Photoshop

Some times teaching someone something can be one of the best things in the world...

And other times its a right pain in the arss!

I'm working on the photos from tonight's shoot, after doing about 15 images Fluff took over and boy was I in trouble, she is amazing when it comes to seeing things, touching them up and coming up with great ideas, what shes a pain for is listening.

I have read half a book and watched countless youtube vids on photoshop, got tips from people i know and have tried and tested different techniques to get the knowledge (as limited it might be).

Its just baby steps in something that I'm still very new at, but some people think that I am great and know everything there is... Its not easy being a partner sometimes

Great shoot, but such hard work!

Just finished my biggest shoot to date.

With 5 of my friends, 4 in the shoot and getting everything ready plus dinner and a mini party I'm now really tired.

With putting up the screen background, setting up the lights and trying to read up on group studio photos, I think I have the right to be nacked. Using to studio lights, my speed light and reflector's, I think we did great with the lighting. Fluff helped out alot and gave her tips and helping hand as normal.

Saw a set of strobes that I have fallen in love with (but at £2,000 I don't think I'm getting them any time soon) Profoto D1s (Link) but then jessops are doing a set at a far cheaper £200 so I think they are going to be added to the ever growing list of VIP warnings (VIP warnings are what we call the things I would love to get if I ever had the money)

Photos will be up soon as they were for a friend that leaving us on Friday I'm going to have to work fast to get them to her in time. I'm hoping to have at lest one on the blog by the end of the night.

Getting Set

With another shoot coming around the cornnor, I have been looking up some lighting tek on the web, Looking at lighting set ups and such. I cam across a site and a blog with some very helpfull tips.

The site was a davidjameswilliams.com (LINK) and it gave a nice brake down of the set ups he had used and the blog was lightingtutorials.blogspot.com (LINK), once again it had a nice brake down and showed me just how detailed a blg can be... only trouble is now i see I still need some kit to get some of the lighting I would like to have.

One little thing I did find was some fucking gels!! (LINK)

Fluffy Birthday

Happy birthday my sweet baby, another year with you has only made me see, just how lucky it is, being me xx

Not finished yet!

Its funny when you think you have Finished something only to sleep look back and see you still have a lot of work left to be done on it,

The pics from the photo shoot where looking great and I uploaded 26 in total... bad skinny as it should have been at least 30.

So give me some more time and I'll finish the next set... maybe ill do a total of 50 - who knows