time to waste

Amy (blonde), Sophie (brunette), Bee (redhead) modelling for me the other week. The light was crap because of the weather but it was just a bit of fun, so whatever :) They're like hair-dye adverts XD

Hair, make-up, styling, photography: me

GPOYT

I don't really post images of me very often, so here's a photo of me taken by Lynn at a wedding we did yesterday :) I'm wearing a Hoi Polloi faux fur cropped jacket, a lace dress from Primark, and leather belt from D2. That's my baby, my Nikon D80 :D

Just some adorable fluff

Harry George, 7 months old

In Raptures Photoshoot

Yesterday, for my friend's birthday present, I went over and we had a photoshoot. My mum, step-dad and baby brother have gone to Cyprus and my younger brother has gone to stay with my dad, so I have the house to myself for 12 days (heaven!) so my cousin, Bronte, has come to stay for a few days. I dragged her along and she did hair for me.

Make-up is soooo relaxing, but Rebecca (my friend and model) blinks every time you go anywhere near her eyes which is frustrating, so I'm surprised she didn't end up with mascara all over her face. What was funny was that she had to go to the shops for milk like directly afterwards, with enormous hair and drawn on eyebrows haha!

Retouching efforts

I decided yesterday that I'm going to dabble in retouching now to make my photography look more professional when I do get around to doing more fashion shoots (I would spend all my time doing this if models weren't thin on the ground... I'm considering posting an advertisement around my college when I get back after Easter haha). With this in mind I browsed through a couple of tutorials, pulled out an old photo of Bee from my external harddrive and spent maybe 40 minutes or so retouching her.

My darling Gama made me a bit of a website with a rollover javascript image showing the before and after of it, because I am hopeless, so here we go: Retouching Example ! Clickity click ;) Hopefully having a reallysuperamazing tea party photoshoot with Phet in a couple of days so I'll post the results of that up soon too :D

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i miss writing

I wish I had more time on my hands. Even though I spend most of my time doing nothing, it feels like the hours move by too quickly and that I never actually get around to doing the things that I planned on doing in the first place.

I have exams for Biology and Chemistry like next week, and so far I've done very minimal revision. However, this revision is my excuse for not writing anything fictional, or posting on here (something that could possibly be beneficial to me if only I could do it regularly enough), or taking photos... Anything that I enjoy, basically.

Kaitlyn, my amazing American friend, and I have however been doing some more writing, finally! , together. Our collaberation (nicknamed 'the awesome' because we're just that egotistical ;) ) is currently around 26000 words long and is probably my proudest achievement to date, but even that has been thrown to the sidelines on so many occasions because I just have no motivation to write anything, ever. In fact, I have no motivation what-so-ever.

I suppose we all have our creative blocks, and mine is just an extremely long one. Hopefully I'll get back into the flow of things after my exams are over...


On another note...

Our Photography homework for next week is to find a style of portrait you would like to take of yourself, so that a partner can recreate it using you as the model. Bee, my closest friend, and I were playing in the studio with lighting in darkness and I took this portrait of her...

I quite like it :) ... I'll post the results of next week's photoshoot here and hopefully they'll be as good, if not better, given that we'll have more time to prepare and they won't be just products of boredom and play like this. I'm hoping to get Baby Harry (my little brother) into the studio soon too, so that should be good fun and result in cuteness overload, with his little chubby cheeks and stormy blue eyes.

Enough rambling...

Bye x