I've really been feeling old female led hip-hop lately. Maybe because the new stuff is so weak, but chilling and listening to the old beats has really been cathartic to me. I hope you like this playlist.

Tattoo Convention: Sparks Will Fly

I lied, I'm a liar. I thought I had posted all the Tattoo Convention photos I wanted to but this one was half finished in Photoshop.

I've added some of the sparks on the right of the photo as they were only heading in one direction, I reduced the exposure on the crowd behind her until they disappeared and I've added a red-green-yellow colour dodged gradient which has added the teal and rose hints to the photo.

Gradients have been featuring a lot in my post production experiments, sometimes they're very obvious (example 1 & 2). Sometimes I will use a layer with a gradient map and they're a bit subtler (example).

I hope you like them all and my experimentation is working.

 

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Greenwich

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"This is where people come to die." 

The above is a quote from my friend who observed that Greenwich is full of couples and families with kids, the living dead in her opinion. They're not living the fast life of an east end girl and have opted for the more sedate charm of south London.

Being a Greenwich resident I've come to appreciate that charm, it's nice round 'ere and I imagine that the student population make sure it's not as slow and quiet on a Saturday night as it is on a Saturday afternoon. 

I like the quiet sometimes, I like moments like those above. I hope you do too.

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Starlight, Star Bright

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More autuminal shots from the weekend. I was shooting straight into the sun and using the branches and remaining leaves to create these shadows and starbursts. It hasn't worked as well as I would have liked and I'm wondering if reshooting will be easier/more fun than doing a bit of photoshop.

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