Editing Laura's photos

I think I've finally managed to finish editing all the photos that Laura wanted to have from our photo shoots so that she can send them to model agencies in Madrid. This photo is my favourite at the moment:



Click on the photo to see larger version of it. Sorry about the watermark, but I don't want anyone to use Laura's photos without permission.

I quite like some of the ones with the dark background, too, although I think the lighting could be better.






Next on my editing list: Brighton Pride dog show photos for Mio Minn, and then my friend Chizu's children's photos.

Second photo shoot with Laura

Had more time with Laura today, and a fun photo shoot! Here are a few quick edits from the day.







Went to a fantastic gig in the evening...



Medeski Martin & Wood with a special guest percussionist Airto Moreira. The gig lasted for about 2,5 hours (including interval) and was pure pleasure. Listening to these four fabulous musicians made my cheeks ache, as I found myself grinning all through the gig due to the fact that I was constantly, one moment after another, impressed by their inventiveness, pure talent and obvious joy of playing. Their music was very funky, and to be honest, I probably wouldn't have got THAT interested if I happened to hear the pieces they have on their MySpace web site, for example - but they were brilliant live. Check out some YouTube clips if you are interested in hearing top quality organ based funky jazz with a generous measure of avant-garde improvisation thrown in.

UPDATE: I received an e-mail from people of FudoMouth saying that they have used my photo of the MMW gig on their website. I was surprised to find that they had mp3s for the whole MMW Brighton gig on their web site, so I read on, and found out that MMW are a "trade friendly band", as explained in bt.etree.org Very cool! (Now I can listen to the gig again - and so can you!)

My first model

Laura came over for a quick photo shoot today. We only had about an hour, and as this was the first time working with a model (apart from Miles), I just concentrated on getting acceptable, straight-forward shots. Fancy lighting practise will come later.





With this experience under my belt, next time I will feel more relaxed and... errr... "experienced" ;-) The poses were all Laura's ideas with hardly any direction from my part. I am going to go through a lot of portraits in books and on-line in order to get some ideas for poses, so that I can actually direct my model next time.