Photoshoot

I think I told you that I’ve been working on a photoshoot. If not, here are the news again; I’ve been working on a photoshoot. Yay me! Pictures won’t be published until October and I still have another shoot to do in beginning of July but this is so very exciting!

Anyhoo, my job was to do some props out of cardboard. I’ve been hot glueing and cutting and drawing like I’ve never done before (actually I NEVER have done glueing, cutting and drawing like that before!) and my hands are covered in glue burns and there’s black poster paint under my nails that I’m not able to get rid of.

Now that the shoot is done. I can think of about million ways I could have built the things smarter and have them finished nicer. I made some idiotic mistakes during the building process but that’s nothing I can do about now. However, I have managed to pinpoint the origin of those mistakes. Care to know?

The mistake was that I didn’t trust my own process. I think my regular readers can recognize my graphic style from cards that I’ve made. For example the way I do my doodle stitching.

I should have stuck with my OWN style but I started second guessing and that’s where I went wrong. Gah! I should know better by now.

 Now the photographer has to fix some things on Photoshop which is not good because photoshopping is more expensive than my crafting is. On positive side, now I definitely know better. For the next shoot, I’m sticking to what I know (it will be a DIY-tutorial in connection of a fashion shoot).

The shoot was so much fun. When stylists, makeup artist, models and the photographer were doing their thing in the studio, I was in the back room trying on new specs and taking selfies.

Good times.

Thrifty Finn- Total Pro

P.S. After the photoshoot was over, me and the photographer did “Trash The Props-shoot” and this is the end result:

And yes, it was me who had to return to the studio next day to clean all that up.

 

Weekly Photo Challenge: Solitary

 Solitary painting of a solitary woman. Museé Carnavalet, Paris.

 Photoshop Action used: Pioneer Woman’s “Boost”. Here’s an original:

 Here’s the LINK to other Solitary-photos. And don’t forget to LIKE Thrifty Finn on Facebook, where I post links to Finnish crafty and design blogs, mixed with awkward and funny moments of my life. Because not everything can be blogged.

New Blog Header And Some Other Stuff

 Isn’t it cute? After hours of downloading free clipart and digi stamps, I decided to turn to a surprising source for images, my own hard drive! For the first time of the history of Thrifty Finn, I wanted to try out a photographic collage banner. And let me tell you, it was hard! The result is pretty good although I have some issues with the resolution. You can see that the image above is much sharper than the real banner. I will fix it, just not today. I’m too tired for that now.

What do you think? I tried to represent my different crafts and interests but I think it might have turned out bit girly with the pink circles and everything. The circles are a freebie from Pugly Pixel, so go check her out. The link is on my Crafty Resources- blog list.

Then something much more exciting…I have 100 WordPress- followers! I passed 25,000 views! I think now it’s the time to start thinking about a giveaway don’t you think? Just don’t hold your breath, there’s a chance I won’t get around it until, well, let’s just say I’m big on procrastination.

Now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go and find a picture for this week’s photo challenge.

Till next time!

Weekly Photo Challenge: Merge

Yeah, yeah. I know I’m a week late with this. I had one idea but didn’t have the chance to execute so I decided to skip it. Today, when I began browsing through my Paris photos for the Urban theme, I actually got inspired to do Merge. No worries, I’m still doing this week’s challenge, I’m just going to get the previous one out-of-the-way first.

 Ooh, Notre Dame! To achieve this look I used layers, selective magic wand, pattern I got from Deviant Art and Pioneer Woman Action “Quick Edge Burn”. The photo itself is SOOC and was shot on some random setting accidentally, which gave the photo its bluish tone. Then to finish things off, I merged the layers together. Here’s the original:

Sigh. I miss Paris. If only I could be there! No wait. I will be! In couple of months! Yay!

Weekly Photo Challenge: Purple

When I saw this weeks theme, I decided on a very specific set of photos. And when I say very specific, I mean very hard to find as I didn’t remember if I still had them on my hard drive, or maybe on a USB which I’ve lost some time ago or maybe on a CD. See where this is going? Yes, it took me days to find them and in the end they were on my hard drive. In a folder I had specifically created to hold my, and I’m using this term very loosely, artsy photos.

Okay, I’m no horticulturist but I think this plant is syringa. A good tip to find out english names of plants and animals is to type the name in your own language in Wikipedia, copy paste the latin name in English Wikipedia. Latin, surprisingly many uses in modern-day writing environment. In this case it was from Finnish: Syreeni to Latin: Syringa to English (disappointedly): Syringa.

 I love the photo challenge. It gives me an excuse to play with Photoshop Actions. Once again I used the free sets available from The Pioneer Woman. My favourite and thus the most over-used action is Seventies which gives that lovely golden sunset vibe on every picture.

When I was playing with the said actions, I began thinking I could do something more with the images. Another freebie I’ve downloaded quite some time ago, a French cancellation mark set by Just Something I Made was perfect for what I had in mind.

You know what I made? I made small, postcard sized posters thus suitable sending for a friend:

 Or maybe use one of them to make a bigger card:

Click on the text below images to download:

ThriftyFinnVueCard

 ThriftyFinnLilacCard2

 ThrifyFinnNantesCard

Let me know who you sent your card to! Or if made something crafty with them!