abby and the old barley mill

So I just realized I never actually uploaded the rest of the photos from this shoot to this blog. They've been on Flickr for a while, so if you follow that you may have already seen them. They're also now on my Facebook Page!

time, originally uploaded by avalilly.

lean, originally uploaded by avalilly.

weightless, originally uploaded by avalilly.

glow, originally uploaded by avalilly.

The levitation image (weightless) is probably my favourite photo to date involving Photoshop to achieve the desired image. It features two different photos to make up Abby's body, one for the gallery space, and two more to create the left, foremost pillar. I'll have to do a full before and after with the in between steps to fully explain it, but I'm happy with the results, so I hope it looks good!

You'll be seeing more of this lady in the future as she's hired me for her business portraits and aerial straps photos (which I shot last night with my new red backdrop!). I'll post more about those in future.

I may upload more photos to this post in the future. There's still a couple images that I want to work on from this shoot, so whenever they get done I'll just add them to the end of this post. :)

bananassassin / bananassassination

bananassassin, originally uploaded by avalilly.

bananassassination, originally uploaded by avalilly.

Been slowly but surely getting older photos up onto my flickr account. This was done entirely because I was incredibly in love with the ivy wall on one of the buildings at my university. The only thing I had in mind that day was a bananassassination attempt. Thanks to the lovely Katie for playing along. <3

 

The gorgeous colours of fall are something I definitely start looking forward to around this time of year. Unfortunatley it also makes me a little anxious, because then I think of all things I still want to do that I haven't done yet this summer while the weather is still warm enough! Ahh!

17/52

printemps, originally uploaded by avalilly.

I should really shoot outdoors more often. So many more (easy!) pretty options. Get a little flower bokeh going and voila, a decent photo. Unfortunately, there's people outdoors. Most of the areas I've been interested in going to shoot at end up being somewhat popular for nature walks or whatever it is people like to do outside. I really don't like when there's other people around when I'm doing self portraits, everything ends up so terribly awkward!

This is just in my backyard though, so it wasn't too bad. Follow the flickr link to find two more crop options. I really hate having to crop. I like to have the composition made in camera, but sometimes when you're dealing with variables like, say, not being able to see the composition while you're in front of the camera, sometimes it's necessary.

Sqaure crops are a general pet peeve anyways. Unless you're shooting with a square format camera where you have to compose for a square frame, most people don't balance them right and it just bugs meeee!

elephant love medley

So, been sick for the past couple days so I've just been watching movies here and there to help with the healing process. Today, it was Moulin Rouge. I always forget how much I absolutely love this film, sometimes it's just overwhelming how much it amazes me. I'm a huuuge sucker for incredibly beautiful visuals and this film is chalk full of them.

This is one of my favourite sequences. It's not as powerful as the El Tango de Roxanne sequence, but this one always gives me the warm fuzzy goosebumps.



AGH. So good. Especially love the part with the exploding heart effect. This whole film is just a really great marriage of over the top embellishments, great acting, incredible art direction, really good editing, etc. Definitely one of my all time favourites.

Anywho, gushing over. I need to upload my new photos, there's quite a few, but I'm always hesitant since I often want to have them part of a 'series' or small group, but then never get around to finishing said 'series' or group. Ah well. I'll get to them eventually. Need to redo my flickr account too. I've sort of reached my 200 photos already, but I'm not certain I like all of them. Might just have to get myself a pro account so I don't have to worry about the cap.

'Til next time~

starstruck

Yesterday, I helped out my friend on a film. She was in charge of make-up and needed someone to help do hair. It was quite a bit of fun, actually. Normally I help with the art direction and set dec, but I got to curl a bunch of hair and style it so it could atleast pass for the 1930's which is probably one of my favourite style eras, so I enjoyed it muchly.

Some snaps:

You can find more in my starstruck set on Flickr!

I'm looking into getting an EF 50mm f/1.8 lens. Found one on amazon for pretty cheap, so I may just have to pick one up. From what I've seen, it takes beautiful photos of people and is a generally great lens for multipurpose photography. Shame it feels so flimsy though. Ah well, it's not like I can afford anything too fancy! Yet, anyways. ;)

start

Hello Internet,

So I've finally been sucked into this little world of blog. I figure it'll take me a little while to build my online portfolio/webpage for my art, so a blog will have to do in the meantime. I'll probably use this as a place to dump some random highlights about my life, my artistic endevours, some progress pieces or simply things that I find inspiring.

Like music for instance!

For those of you who are fans of Damien Rice, you'll be familiar with Lisa Hannigan. She accompanies him in some of his studio songs, as well as on the road in many live performances. Anywho, it was recently brought to my attention, through The Colbert Report no less, that she has her own album now. It is magnificent. I highly recommend it. I'm so in love with it right now it's all I've been listening to.

You can check her out on her website: http://www.lisahannigan.ie/ or her myspace: http://www.myspace.com/lisahannigan if ye be interested. Oh, the Irish~


Anywho, check back whenever. I'll be updating with photos from recent exhibitions and whatnot. Also be sure to check out my Flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/avalilly/ for what is sure to be more recent updates, atleast on the photography front.

Til next time~