Going For Vintage

Recently I've been going through some of my old work and old techniques when I found this little gem of a photo. Once again the media make girls had done some work (crafting vintage beard wigs) that they wanted to get photographed. Well considering that these beards were meant to be from the 1800's I thought why not try and make this photo look more vintage to suit the image more. 

This is the original image, unedited 

This is a stencil I found off the internet which I used to overlay my photo

It was free and copyright free as well

This is my final image, after reverting the photo into black and white 

then erasing the edges to give a rough look I placed the overlay on top and blended it in 

 Overall I am rather happy with how this came out,

 though I think I might go back and place little white

lines into the photo to look like scratches.

That will add the aged roughed up finish to the photo.

The Weird And Wonderful

At my university the photography department work closely with the media make up department. This is brilliant for both departments as I get to photograph some amazing work as well as giving useful photos to the make up artists to use in their sketchbooks. Before Christmas the media make up girls had an assessment which I had the honor of photographing for them, each model has a different theme so I've labelled them for you (some are more obvious then others). Below are some of my favourite ones, hope you like them. 

Circus 

Royalty 

Butterflies 

Fossils 

Medusa  

Flowers 

Question of the day: Which is your favourite photo??
And, how long do you think it took the girls to create these wonderful masterpieces??

Behold The Bokeh

Before Christmas I was set a task in my uni class to take some Bokeh photography (For those who don't know what Bokeh is, it's where you taken out of focus shots, usually of light). I thought with the Christmas tree having so many different coloured flashing lights, what could have been better timing!! So before the Christmas tree gets packed up, I tried to get some good shots. I've never done Bokeh before so it was a bit of a shot in the dark, it's definitely something like I'd like to try again. But with that being said I'm still quite proud with how some of my images came out, I've got some of my photos below, how you enjoy :)