Airbrushing the skins

The happenings today

Wake up

Wonder what time it is while laying in bed for about 20 min.

Get up to check what time it is

Sit at boyfriends computer

Reply to all emails and facebook messages and whatnot

Remember why I got up

Check what time it is (roughly 1030am)

Set up two photoshoots for later this week

Megan on Sunday

Nina on Tuesday

Search for a theme for Nina's shoot

Look at pretty pictures and think to myself "I really doubt she would go for posing like that..."

Answer the ringing telephone to Cliff (boyfriends friend)

Poke the hibernating bear. "AJ... Cliff said to wake you up... he's on the phone..."

-"Ask him what he wants"

-"kay... he said something about putting something on his external hard drive..."

-"fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck... gimme a second... Hello? what the fuck dude... you open (insert folder here) right click on (insert other folder here) go down to copy... then open up your external... and right click and hit paste... dont be such a bitch..."

Needless to say it was about 1130am and poking the bear only made the bear angry. Luckily not with me...

-"Hey... can I get on my computer now?"

-"yea, just refresh everything and make sure I didn't get any messages first"

-"hmmm ok. nope, nothing."

About 15 minutes later the TV is turned on and we're watching the end of the Soul Eater episode we were watching last night... which the bear passed out during. Then its over and he goes to take a shower and I'm exhausted but waiting for the model to show up at my apartment for the first half of our photoshoot... being as its like 1230pm I couldn't really go to sleep and be awake at "1-ish" to start setting up......... fail time management? AJ gets outta the shower, wakes Andrew up... they go to the store to get doughnuts.... because despite Andrews extremely small figure he is an internal fatass... its ok Andrew, its really ok.

While they are out getting doughnuts.... it hits about 140pm and the model knocks on my door... She comes in and tries to comfort herself by explaining why her makeup looked how it did... "I tried to tutorial you gave me with what I had... hope its ok..." it was perfect for the dramatic eye makeup I wanted.

Awkward moment.

I set up and tell her to get in front of the canvas... she does a few poses perfectly fine and then says she feels like shes doing the same things over and over. Note to models... if you can feel your position change, your expression change, your eyes wander, or anything else like that.... you are doing just fine! Really! Personally if I thought someone was doing a horrible job I would tell them how to pose exactly. I throw in a few tips here and there just so you don't feel like you're out of things to do... to give your racing mind a break from searching for something else to do with a hand or a leg or your eyes or mouth... its ok I'll relieve your stress for a whole minute or two with my suggestions. The boys get home in the middle of us shooting. She looks uncomfortable so we leave and take some pictures across the street in some parking lot by some bushes where a bum has set up camp... alright... then we walk to another locked up abandoned building that was a supermarket of some sort at one time... take a few very nice shots out there, then walk over to some caged in area and take pictures out side of there. then walk back to the apartment.

Total photoshoot time : roughly 1.5hours

Total pictures taken : 238

Total pictures pulled out for editing : 14

So... then I sat here for a few hours editing and got 5 pictures edited and I'm still debating on the other 9 pictures... not sure if a few of them are worthy enough to edit... or if they should just be stamped and put in the scraps like the rest of them...

Searched youtube for a few more photoshop tutorials on editing skin... didn't come up with much...

So... all in all... one things for sure..

I don't know how to airbrush skin in photoshop......... YET.