Photosharing

I've been receiving emails asking when the shots from my first ever photoshoot were ready. My apologies Helios! I'm a real newbie when it comes to photography... I'm really just feeling my way around... and post-processing the shots were such a pain. Anyway, I decided to go for DxO for the basic image correction work and Picasa for the croping, resizing and posting aspect. I recommend both for ease of use and speed (esp if you have dual core PC!). However, I feel that the real pros will still prefer Photoshop. I can see why.

Picasa invited me a few weeks back to try out its new photo sharing service - Picasa Web. So why not? My first impressions - Its much faster than the others I've tried... including Flicker and Multiply (which I think is horribly clumsy for photo sharing). I also love the way it integrates into Picasa. Makes life so much easier for me. In short, I LIKE IT! I'll still post "event" photos to this blog site... but the art shots will go to Picasa Web.

I've uploaded two albums to the site, one of stray cats around my block (see earlier blog entry) and another on the Helios shoot on 1 Jul. Once again, my thanks to Lydia for helping put the shoot together and making space for a newbie like me and to all the models who bore with me while I learnt the basics. Thanks esp to Amber and Valerie who at some points, were even teaching me what to shoot! :p Special thanks to "old bird" John (pictured), who helped guide me with the basics.

http://picasaweb.google.com/Walter.Chia

Would love to work with Helios again... but I don't think my wife will be too happy about more bikini shoots! :p

(From left to right: Mel, Lydia, Asleigh, Lydia, Christina, Amber, Val and Valerie)

Enjoy the pics!

(PS. While I have full rights to the images, please respect Helios and the models themselves by not passing the shots around. Thanks!)