Celine

So Finally.. at long last 

my cousin

Celine's 

photoshoot 

I ADORE baby hands and feet..

I see a ballerina in her future :')

That Santa hat looked adorable on her..

Baby with a hoodie !!

And a lovely hat

and whenever I do a photoshoot, I look around 

and shoot stuff that, well, aren't the model..

I have SO much more..

for next time :)

email me if you want me to put up another Celine blogpost.

till we meet again

Shaunie xx

How To Stitch (Enlarge) Photos.. (In Square Format)

This is blogpost is similar to my previous one

Just in square format

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So first I start with my image and crop (by enlarging it outwards)

if you hold the shift button while doing that it will hold the square.

Again, cause I wasn't using a tripod, 

it didn't perfectly align at the top.

If you look at the red lines, you will see some hard edges in the middle.

you have to soft brush erase them (or use a layermask) 

All taken care of :)

And then restoring the corners..

Some curves adjustments :)

and voila !

you got yourself a 

Turkish Fountain.

How To Stitch (Enlarge) Photos..

So I got a couple of emails asking me how to stitch photos together..

and I decided to make a blog post instead of answering it 10 times lol

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First of all, I would like to point out 3 things:

. You have to be in manual mode so that the exposure 

would be the same and you wont have any problems

. Unless you have experience in doing this, use a tripod

in order to make sure that everything will align.

. Always try to overlap the parts and not just the edges

by doing this, you make it easier for yourself to erase

the parts instead of having white gaps..

So here is how to stitch 

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This is a sky image composited out of 8 pictures:

I normally like to start with the center image..

but to make it easier for you, I'm gonna start with the corner..

Then I start adding the images as I took them side by side..

(I didn't use a tripod for this one, thats why they don't align at the top)

Then I added a Layer Mask and started erasing the 

edges where they overlayed so that I wouldn't get any hard edges.

You can see some exposure difference on that top one..

this is mainly because I was shooting through glass..

After I went around the whole image..

I made sure all the edges are softened :)

Then I added some contrast (S curve)

then adjusted the curves on the yellow part 

(Bottom right)

Then top left.

and then its done : )

Rays of Hope.

The Specimen

Making of

The Specimen

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So first I started with an image of my jar on the grass

then I tilted the cam upwards to enlarge it into a square..

after that came the girl (taken separately - so I had to adjust the exposure a little bit)

then I added the fireflies / pixy dust, whatever you prefer to call them..

I added a black layer (erased inside the jar) and set it on soft light for some contrast

a little curve adjustments (to add more contrast) and some desaturation

more colour curves

(Kinda like it like this lol.. gives it an underwater feel )

brining up the blacks and more curves - also some colour balance..

vignetting .. and Viola..

My Specimen.

Rupunzel

so I got a question asking how I did my rupunzel shot..

here you go =D

First of all, I took a couple of pictures of her on a table 

and with different positioning of the wig

Then I took a picture of the scene empty

Then to turn it into a square I tilted the camera up and down

to enlarge instead of crop.

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Some curve adjustments =D

a texture and voila !

hope you enjoyed =D