Fake or Creative Input??

I am not a photoshop kinda guy! I try my hardest to get the photograph done in camera and edit some blemishes but that is it. The last few days I have struggled to capture the photograph I wanted! Sort of writers block but for a photographer!

I have uploaded the following two photographs to see how bad the original was and how much photo editing I had to do and it is still not great! It’s not that I suck at Photoshop I just just feel I want to share the view I have seen. I admire people who can take a simple image and airbrush it to hell!! Is it cheating? or is it creative input? hmm.. I don;t know. I feel there is to much airbrushing going in to portraits and does not portray natural beauty.

Try and keep a photograph as natural as possible! You are beautiful and you do not need airbrushing to make you look like a Barbie doll, that is just ugly!

Copyright James Kelly 2010

http://www.jameskellyphotography.com

A Night Without the Black Stuff

Wednesday 09th December 2009

My head is all over the place today. I blame the lack of coffee. Did not get to sleep till 4:30am and forgot to set my alarm, did not wake till 11am! Gym for a swim then apentthe day in the office working on M-I and my portfolio.

Need to get in to the studio finish painting as I have shoots booked for next week.

Going to photograph in town tonight. This is becoming a habit. I do enjoy it but in s dose’s.

Got a huge event on Friday which is worrying me. The prowess of photographing people then displaying on the tv then to order is time consuming.

Got a free starbucks today which cheered me up. Been off coffee for 48 hours now and had. Chi latte. So fine.

I love the sauna. I sit there for 20 minutes and pounder life. That’s where I come up with most of my ideas (that and the toilet 😉 ).

I was thinking tonight that you get many paths in life and these paths can lead you to many adventures in life.

Just mow I feel my life has 3 paths. One has been tempory been blocked and not going in to detail. The second sees me building up my business and taking over the world (Ha!) an I hope this on leads me to traveling the world with my photography the last one is the one I fear. I feel I am on the line of becoming lazy, careless and giving up! I will end up chosing a job I don’t like and working to make ends meet! This path is the one that keeps me motivated and stayi g on the second path.

I have seen me on the third path before and this is my one scare in life, the one fear of my future.

Home from gym, had so much energy. Now I’m fooked!

Going to rest then head into town for some M-I….. 😉

I have been trying to decide which photogrpah I wanted to add too today’s blog. I finally chose this photograph of Craig Ross which I took a few years ago. Craigs photograph was taken for a little project I did on tattoo’s. I love the photograph is all black yet it was taken in corny of some black papaer in my parents sitting room. How professional.
Imagin my mum and dad watching coronation street/emerdale while their son photographs a half naked guy on th side 🙂

Tuesday Blues

Tuesday 01 December 2009
24 days till Christmas!!!

For the love of god I could not get up today!! I set my alarm for 6am then re set it for 7, got up went for a run then fell asleep again when I got home! Was back in the bar at 9am.

Been a good morning thought. The Dell tech guy came to fix my screen and notices that it was cracked which I new nothing about 😉 so he is returning tomorrow (Wesnesday) to replace about 90% of my computer happy with that but also pissed cause I was planning on going to do some photography out in Alford of the snow. Gutted.

Finished work, chilled for 30 minutes then head down to my office to final the wedding album before second preview.

WEDDING ALBUM FINISHED!!! now I just have to wait for it to be printed which means I will be nervious till then.

Just about to sit down to a nice Curry an beers! Can not wait!!!

The early night and up early to take photographs and hit the gym.

Today’s photograph is of Chaz who was the singer of Diablo who are sadly no more. I love this photograph, this is possibly my favorite music photograph and I have this printed 30″x24″inches

The Love of Coffee

I can not begin to explain the love I have for Coffee. I was in heaven when I worked for Starbucks, Free coffee. Now days I try not drink too much.

I was meeting my dad for coffee today. We chilled out in a little coffee shop in Inverurie. I and my dad tend to do this a lot. It is our “father, son bonding time” as he puts it. My dad is great, we have not always see eye to eye.

When I was in school I was very ill. I had cramping pains in my lower right side. I had these EVERY hour of EVERY day for three years. Constantly at the doctors. All they said was “he is scared of school and using this as an excuse to stay at home” (for the record, I loved school). For three whole years I was teased and bullied by every one at school. My mum did not know what to do; she wanted to believe me but was torn between me and the professionals. My dad on the other hand took the word of the pros. I use to feel he hated me. Regretted having me and all that. One day I was taken to the doctors and was seen by this doctor who was covering holidays for the other docs. I remember him looking over the files and having a good check. His thoughts, “I think this boy has IBS (Irritable Bowl Syndrome)”. At this point it was very unheard of.

He referred me to a professional who then put me on to a special “elimination” diet and with in one month we discovered Milk, Sugar and stress was making me ill.

By this time I was only 6 months away from my Standard Grade exams and every teacher told me I was going to fail. I proved them very wrong. After a month of my diet I was pain free. I was back at school (Still getting bullied) and revising for my exams. I struggled though, found it really hard but pulled through and received middle grades, might not be the best but better that failing.

I think my father felt guilt after all that, he never showed it but I knew. I don’t blame him for his actions; I would probably have been the same.

Now we get on great and I would not change things. I love sitting with him chatting about photography (which he really knows very little about but I am trying) and things in the world or my career. Just drinking coffee, eating scones and giving the staff abuse (in a good way and they love it).

 

Well below is a couple of photos taken in the coffee shop Sinclair’s, Inverurie, Aberdeenshire (I recommend the Cullen skink).

Coffee

 

 

Just add the milk

 

Cheese Scone

 

 

 

Perfect recipe for a laze day chatting & reading.