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The Ultimate Diet

Dave Frost — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 15:45:22 +0000

OK, had 20 minutes to kill and couldn’t think of anything constructive to do. Not that often I get an empty house and ponce again I failed to capitalise on it. One day I might grow up a bit !!

Many hands make light work……..

Dave Frost — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 13:18:04 +0000

She Who Must Be Obeyed has been away but due back tomorrow. Thought it would be prudent to get some extra help in to make sure the housework was finished in time and the house is spick and span. Not too sure about two of them though, they just sat around doing nothing…..

Nothing to see here……..

Dave Frost — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 08:27:13 +0000

Still not had the camera out in anger for anything creative for what seems like ages – Work keeping me tied up in knots amongst other things. Aside from football and a couple of family shots it’s been a photographic wilderness. So just to keep the front page changing I’ve pulled another old one out from the cobwebby depths of the archives….. Don’t know where I found the time for stuff like this. I want my mojo back !!!!!!

Me, Myself and I

Dave Frost — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:06:38 +0000

It’s been a while since I posted any pictures of me, or indeed pictures with me in them. This is partly because I’m usually the other side of the camera, and partly because I’m such an ugly barsteward. I’ve been thinking about a shot like this for ages, and today, finally got round to having a play. The edit was a quick and dirty one as a proof of concept, but I’m quite pleased with the way it turned out under the circumstances.
Set up wise it’s fairly straightforward all you need really is a tripod, but in this case I also used a Speedlight 430EX.
Settings should be manual, this helps to ensure that the exposure is the same for each shot which in turn makes it easier to blend post production. (fortunately it’s a grey day so didn’t need to worry about changes in ambient light as the sun went in and out).
To take the pictures, I set the camera on timer, pressed the button and adopted my poses. OK, was a bit of running about, but hey, I need the excercise.
Once taken the three pictures were imported into Adobe RAW, and all given the same, desaturated treatment.
Then, I opened them all in photoshop, and copied two as new layers into the third one.
Thereafter, it was simply a matter of using the eraser tool to remove the bits I didn’t want and reveal the “me” underneath.
Job done.

Was all good fun, and I managed to convince the kids that my brothers had popped round while they were at school. Confused the hell out of them as they know that I have no brothers.