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Category : Diary

08 Déc 2011

Eden in the evening news (video)

In August 2010 I was interviewed by a TV channel about my couchsurfing experience, and was seen later in the evening news. Couchsurfing is a website where people who like traveling in a backpacker’s way, with small budgets, can meet and make friends. All members can sleep for free at other members’ home. Its a great way to meet interesting people from all over the world, who usually share the same values of peace and universal friendship. [FLOWPLAYER=http://edeninblues.com/wp-content/uploads/Eden-couchsurfing-interview.flv,500,375] My profile […]

10 Mar 2011

Amamam, mama mia!

For Christmas 2010, one of our ex-Newko staff members, Dama, which was in charge of props and make-up, now working at Amamam.com, asked me to do him a favor and pose for their new section… without explaining me it had to be sexy. Hmm… when I found it, it was already late, and with the soft heart I have, they just got me into the studio with just an underwear and a few props I had brought over…

30 Déc 2010

Happy Birthdat Titi!

Titi’s birthday is in a special time of the year…

19 Déc 2010

How to photograph DJs

To help other photographers beginning in the field of music bands photography, here is the evolution of my thinking in the eve. You’ll see how a normal shot call look completely ugly and good for the bin, and how to very fast improve it…

05 Déc 2010

Something I learnt (2)…

Something I know for a long time, but that takes physical appearance through time: Life is a letter O. It is round, empty at the beginning, but makes a perfect ring on itself. It is empty for us to fill it. It is an O, or a keyhole, and we are the keys.

13 Nov 2010

Patricia…

You seem far away on this photo, like many friends. France seems far too… Is it possible for me to go back? In which conditions?

06 Nov 2010

Fear

I thought I had to visit them, and while I was getting close, I heard some weird noises, like some of a big mass moving around. I thought it could be some stones from the ruins sliding down. Then I felt a movement above me, looked up and saw a huge white furry mass among the stones and the roots of the trees. It was a back of something. It slowly moved round, to reveal the face of a wolf.

26 Juil 2010

Chen Ya Ping, Newko issue #2

That was one of our best days, work quality and results speaking, inspiration speaking too. Chen Ya Ping is an art student, she is very photogenic, as long as she doesn’t smile, like most of the models I met, and has a great looking body. You’ll rarely see me taking photos of smiling models…

19 Mar 2010

Men Meng model, Newko issue #2

Nice girl but really not that cute, apart from her eyes, but the way the make-up was done, I believe she lost all her charm, and looked very much like a…

18 Mar 2010

Jiang Wei Yi model, Newko issue #2

As you may know, people in photography look very different from in daily life, the main reason being that a photo is a « piece » of a person only, and hopefully a yummy one lol. But our brain is used to make an overwhole physical image of a person with all the information gathered by the eyes at different moments (profile view, front view, back view, in dark, in light, at smiling or serious or crazy times ie according to emotions/feelings, in dark or light, etc). That overwhole image is the strongest, and usually averages our perception of human beauty to a quite mediocre level. We don’t like someone for just one thing, but for the averages of all his/her qualities and defects. And it’s also true, that most people are not that pretty.

But many people also…