The Portland Square

The University of Plymouth's Medical School.

Stafford Upon Avon

Stafford Upon Avon, the Shakespeare's birthplace. The last Easter Trip.

Jenna's Portrait

Jenna

Era's Portrait

This is Era's portrait. Wrong metering and the image suffers from blown highlights. I should have guessed, she was wearing a black shirt. Unfortunately, I had forgotten to carry along my lightmeter. My last attempt is to use exposure compensation, and in camera-blinking highlights, but the other pictures did not turn out to be rather worth "considering". I prefer this one instead. Of course, this is not the fault of the model, just a silly me. :) In photoshop, some parts of the skin were coppied and overlayed on top of the blown highlights to create artificial texture. Well, it was a real pain in the ..... .

Ivy's Portrait

Yerge and Su Mi invited me to their house welcoming party. Their flat is quite nice, small but adequate, and yet cozy, costs £500 per month. Bloody hell, is the word, I mean the money not the house. :( . The food was exquisite, a culinary skill that you can always expect from a Korean wife. And to add on, bloody good German beer too.

I went into their house, and the first thing that caught my attention was this wonderful window in the guess room. The light, pouring in is just so soft and inviting, permeating the area. I thought to myself, "why don't I just do a protrait session then". Luckily, Ivy volunteered to be my first model. :) Ah Kong was being very helpful indeed, to carry the reflector, bouncing back some lights to dark areas. The result is presented above, yet, I am not very satisfied with the background, more "photoshopping" is desperately needed. The artifitial lens blur did not work superbly. I hate hairs, they seem to make selection so difficult. Grrrrr....