A Slow Sunday

Blogger has been up and down a bit recently with the various blogs I read: sometimes up and sometimes down. Hopefully they have fixed it now and I'll be able to post properly.

I've spent the afternoon trying out various knots on myself so that we can have fun creating some bondage pictures. Most of the knots seem quite straight forward. A good site for the basics on knots for bondage is Tatu's Japanese Rope Art site


In my Christmas stocking this year was the book Skin by Lee Varis.
This is an interesting book devoted to the handling of skin in digital photography. It starts with a basic description of the basics of digital imaging, which for all but the most inexperienced digital photographer is not worth reading. Then follows Colour management and workflow, this section is a very good read and gives detailed instructions on calibrating your camera (something I have yet to do). A small chapter on lighting follows that only really covers the basics and is suitable only for those who have no studio experience. The best parts of the book are the colour of skin, tone and contrast in colour and black and white, and retouching which has a remarkable number of useful techniques that even experienced shooters will benefit from.

Overall this was a very good book, although I prefer my own skin smoothing technique rather than his blur based technique. If you photograph people and are not shy of using photoshop to improve their complexion then this is a must read book.

Here is the beautiful Claire Louisa from our shoot back in August.