Making my portrait looks better

I love playing with Photoshop CS3, and mostly experimenting on how to make a portrait look much better. I do believe in improvising the photography technique itself to get the best photo, but sometimes digital enhancement do help in making the best photo looks better.

I have quite a bad skin. Uneven skin tone, large pores, oily skin, double chin etcetera. So, I use my own photo to experiment. This photo is taken by Reza Ali. All editing in done by me. I'm still finding ways to eliminate the oily skin, any suggestion?

Before 

After

A lesson learnt

Some people ask me, about the quality of Zana's wedding pictures. It's not that sharp and it's noisy.

Well, Zana's wedding pictures is a lesson for me to learn. Her reception is on Saturday. I reach home around 5.30pm, and was sitting in the kitchen with my parents chit chatting when my younger brother accidentally formatted my memory card while playing around with my camera. I'd lost all the pictures and had to use a software to recover the pictures. And don't expect 100% recovery, you may lose some pictures (in my case, I lose around 20) and the quality is reduced to 70-90%, depending on your luck I guess. And that's why Zana's wedding picture is a bit disastrous. Next time, I'll immediately transferred all my pictures, despite how tired I am, to the laptop/pc after any events.

The day after Zana's wedding, I'd attend a workshop specially designed for lady photographers to capture kids. I was one of the facilitators, assisting Adhadi and Zubye, and the workshop was a success. We got many good feedback from the participants, and many requested for the workshop to be done more frequently.

At that time I still haven't recovered my memory card (duhh!!) and again, my bad, I don't have a spare. Luckily Adhadi lend me his shop's memory card, which I had to return immediately after the workshop. And it took me almost three weeks to get all my pictures from the memory card *sigh*.  Anyway, thanks to Adhadi and his loyal helper Faiz for helping me out with the replacement card and the photos.

Ah, it is indeed a lot of lesson learnt. But for now, lets enjoy a few of pics taken by me during the workshop.

Zana & Kash - The Wedding

It's been almost three weeks since their wedding day. Hopefully it's not too late to show some of the photos taken during both solemnization and reception. Oh, the solemnization is held after Asar on 20th March at a mosque in Selayang (pardon me, I've forgotten the name of the mosque) and the reception is held the day after at Kelab Golf PDRM, Titiwangsa.

Playing with lights and some enhancement

I was having fun with friends last weekend at a river stream somewhere in Taiping, when i saw the lights coming through the trees. It make a backlit for me. The time was 11ish am but the light was quite soft. Decided to take a shot and the result is yummy rimlight on the models body. I do a little enhancement with Photoshop CS3 Extended and the result, voila!! 

*the model is a friend of mine. Pardon us for the pose as he is not a pro. *grinn*

a new beginning