new toy: iphone

Friday, 19 September 2008

It seriously feels like I've been waiting for this thing forever and finally I have it in my hands. I designed a small logo for hubbie and invoiced him with an iPhone hehe. Very fair I am =)

Needless to say, it's awesome and I lurrrrve it!

Thank you hon!

Labels: general

gotta keep the wife happy. A happy wife is a happy life :) (19 September 2008 15:41)

Must've been some logo! (19 September 2008 15:46)

I think I see the black edge on the left, I thought you would have gotten the white model Natt? (Kim) (19 September 2008 20:46)

Woo hoo, everyone seems to be getting one of these bad boys! Congrats :) (30 September 2008 10:46)

Since you have an iPhone now, when is the iPhone formatted version of your blog going to be available? (11 October 2008 16:39)

it just wasn't me

Thursday, 11 September 2008

So lately I've been experimenting with post processing a lot. There were two completely different styles that I was attracted to (story of my life). One is a really fresh, vibrant, clean and crisp. The other is more glamourous with lots of dodging and burning, vignetting, glowing whites etc.

Since I couldn't decide what I really wanted, I thought why can't I offer both? Or mesh them together somehow. So I tried the meshing and the result turned out like the images this post. Then I went further down the glowy, dodging and burning track and ended up with images in the last post.

Right after I finished the last post, I realised that it wasn't me. All that heavy post processing and dark looking images. It's not the photography that I love.

What do I love? I love what I actually started with a long time ago. The colourful, bright, cheery and happy photos. Someone once looked at my website (which is getting revamped at the moment) and commented that "your photos are too happy"...well I want that back!

So I'm going back to making images the way I used to. The images that made me fall in love with photographing people in the first place. The kind that makes your heart happy =)

I'm glad I finally worked out the style dilemma. Big yey to another self discovery as a photographer =)

Oh as for this cute little blondie, more of her photos are coming up soon.

Labels: photography

celeste & vi: wedding - part 2

Wednesday, 10 September 2008

Some more shots from Celeste & Vi's wedding with some moodier kind of processing applied to the images.

Labels: weddings

nice photos! i like the second last one (10 September 2008 18:54)

Agreed, the second last one looks great. (Kim) (10 September 2008 20:49)

hey Natt! My fave is the same as everyone else's fave... that 2nd last shot. Its got a candidness to it thats just lovely :)

Well done!

I'll send you an email soon about catching up really really soon! :D Can't wait to see you again :) (11 September 2008 14:31)

Wow Nat, those last three knocked my socks off! Great work!!! (30 September 2008 10:47)

behind the scenes

Friday, 5 September 2008

That's me, standing precariously on the log. One faltered foot and I would've been in the water. Two shots later, my legs started getting wobbly from fear of falling. I stepped off.

Can I swim? Not very well at all but I was more worried for the camera for it surely won't survive a swim in the habour!

Thanks to Gordon for this behind the scenes shot =)

Labels: general

I love the discarded shootsac in the foreground... "Don't forgettt meee... Mummmyyy"

Cool! I love it!

Good to see a photographer risk their life and camera (most importantly ;)) for a good shot.. ;) (05 September 2008 10:52)

My thoughts for the discarded shootsac - if I go down, do I really want ALL my lens to go with me? No =) (05 September 2008 10:59)

I know if I go down, I'm going to chuck my camera onto dry land before I land in the water...

If I was about to get hit by a car.. I will use my body as a cushion for my camera.. LOL!! (05 September 2008 15:31)

I know that log well, it's not that wide! You are a brave brave woman :) (30 September 2008 10:49)