Did you know: modelmayhem‘s forum is a pretty good source to learn about digital retouching / post processing techniques? Not only that, sub-forums like hair, makeup, & styling and photography talk are also pretty good learning sources for those related topics. While the forum isn’t cosplay specific, I think there is still a wealth of [...]
Yours truly need to invest in monitor color calibration tools, because it is getting ridiculous trying to post process pictures to the most correct brightness, contrast, color…etc. So, if you are finding some of the post production images too contrasty or the colors are a little off, now you know the reason.

The planned instrument shoot with Andrea and Simone happened several weeks back, and while I like many images from that shoot, I didn’t muster up the energy to process them until recently. Thanks to Andrea for this one. I briefly mentioned the processing and composition of this image on my dA, but in addition, I [...]

Another photo that I really like from a shoot several weeks back, thanks to Simone for making this happen. I am beginning to like the idea of setting up photoshoots, from inviting the right people, arranging the right props, to selecting the right location and go at the right time. Of course, a big chunk [...]

So…not sure what people think about this, but it’s my attempt toward abstraction. Ready, set, comment!