Maisha – A Video Experiment

28th March 2008, (0 Comments)

I totally forgot to share this here. The video from the first-ever-video-shoot I did last year on YouTube. And no, I don’t do videos. Yet. It was an experiment! The band’s website is now up – where you’ll also find some desktop wallpapers I made for them the other day.

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Behind the Scenes

28th March 2008, (1 Comments)

Here’s a look behind-the-scenes at a shoot I did with Kate the other day, and some of the results from that shoot. It was always fun to see models having tea with outrageous face-paint/hair on.

Tea, anyone? More

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Vampires in Nairobi (Photojournalism and Voyeurism)

14th February 2008, (2 Comments)

Violence in Kenya

I met a “hard-news” photojournalist the other day, and he showed me his portfolio. This consisted of several hundred very disturbing photos from the chaos that engulfed Kenya in the beginning of this year. More

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Clumsy Me

11th February 2008, (2 Comments)

I dropped my camera on a cold, hard marble floor today. Oh, the guilt, the shame…

Thankfully Nikons are rugged little buggers.

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Overview: Airbrushing Video

07th January 2008, (2 Comments)

Maisha footage - before and after

Airbrushing video is exactly like airbrushing photos, except for the doing it 25 times a second on a face that keeps moving around…I usually use a cocktail of filters to airbrush skin – blurs, grain, liquify (sp?), dodging, burning – targeted filtering, I call it. Targeted because it’s only applied on certain parts of a face/body; usually large expanses of uninterrupted skin – and avoiding features like the lips, the eyes etc. More

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