L'heure de l'apéritif

I have been living in the US for a couple of years, but I still haven't figure out how to translate"apéritif". I'm sometimes afraid that the whole concept just doesn't exist here... Anyway, Birthday Party's music and the desire for an early evening drink inspired me that little movie...



For that movie, I prepared the background in Photoshop with several pictures I had taken (my kitchen counter, icebergs in Greenland, a telephone box in London). I then imported them in After Effects and made some color correction. I filmed my torso against a green background and used a chroma key and masks to isolate it.

Playing with lights

For this image, I used several pictures of lights taken at a very low shutter speed while moving my camera.
I then played with colors, contrasts and blend modes in Photoshop, and added the two silhouettes.

Isla Vista's Essence

The sunset, the moon, the bike, and the oil platform... Isla Vista's Essence?

For that HDR image, I shot three shots of the scene at different exposure (f/14 1,3s; f/14 0.3s; f/14 5s), then merged them in Photoshop. I removed ghosts, sharpened the bike and the ground, and slightly saturated the sky.