R & R Massage Therapies - Designs

My friend Bec started up her own massage business after completing a few courses at tafe. To help start her off her business I suggested I design her a logo, business cards and whatever else she needed.

In the end I designed a logo, 2sided business card & a gift certificate. She had previously order some flyers and business cards off Vista Print but was not happy with the quality of the cards although she liked the grass image template she had used off the website.

From there I purchased a few grass images from Deposit Photos and I based a number of designs around these images. In the end Bec decided on the bottom image although we both agreed the image was to yellow. I therefore manipulated the image in Adobe Photoshop by adjusting the hue/saturation, removing percentages of yellow and cyan out of the yellow tonal areas and also adjusting the curves.

BEFORE
Image Source - Deposit Photos

AFTER
Image Source - Deposit Photos

In the end these were the final products

Front - Business Card

Back - Business Card

Gift Certificate

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Shooting Sunrise at Manly

January 15th this year my lovely best friend Alanna and myself did a sunrise photography course through Photo WorkShop Australia. We were both new to SLR cameras back then and needed to venture away from using the automatic settings on our cameras. We are still beginners but we are slowly improving our skills and are having lots of fun with them. Alanna uses her camera alot more frequently than I do as she has a nail polish blog that she is quiet dedicate to and is constantly taking photos of her new polishes. I advise you to check it out www.prettypurplepolish.com

The course started at 5:00am so we needed to leave home at 3:30am as it was abit of a drive for us but was defiantly worth it.

We started off taking photos using slow shutters speeds and capturing the movements of waves over rocks near the shore line. This technique created a fogging effect. I wasn't entirely happy with my photos of this technique as once I downloaded them on the computer they looked rather dull! So I adjusted the brightness and contrast and also converted it to greyscale which defiantly was an improvement. I can't wait to try this technique again and get some better results!

By this time the sun was beginning to rise so we set up our tripods and began shooting away at the sunrise whilst adjusting and experimenting with our cameras aperture, shutter speed and white balance settings, We also tried different ISO settings but I didn't really get the whole ISO thing so I will need to look into this more later one : )