THE PHOTO:
Continuing the baby-theme from the birth of our baby daughter (2 months ago - ZOMG), here's a close-up of her hypnotic cradle/swing named "My Little Lamb", taken while she was in blissful sleep below.

POST PROCESSING:
Minor tweaks to lights/darks in Lightroom, some spot removal and clean-up, curves, vignette, sharpening and noise reduction. Duplicated layer with gaussian blur set at reduced opacity.

This feed item was originally published on 26 Mar 2013 under: general, home, photos, places

© 2013 Mike Hudson for seriocomic.

THE PHOTO:
YOTN refers to "Year of the Nappy". While this picture isn't technically of nappies (they're changing cloths), it's representative of the reason why there's been little opportunity to take and post photos.

POST PROCESSING:
Rectangular vignette, crop, auto-contrast, dodge/burn (on in-focus subject to provide greater clarity), sharpen.

This feed item was originally published on 08 Mar 2013 under: general, home, photos

© 2013 Mike Hudson for seriocomic.

This feed item was originally published on 14 Feb 2013 under: rhetoric

© 2013 Mike Hudson for seriocomic.

THE PHOTO:
Well, it's been 1 week (at the time of posting) since baby was born. It seems that a time-warp factor is part of parenthood!

Sadly, despite having the camera at the ready, all photos have been "happy snaps" (and iPhone shots) and hardly anything photogenic enough (the shot, not the subject) to post here, so tonight I made a special effort.

POST PROCESSING:
Crop, sharpen, noise-reduction (ISO was very high in non-ideal lighting), light balance, slight vignette, more sharpen.

This feed item was originally published on 04 Feb 2013 under: macro, people, photos

© 2013 Mike Hudson for seriocomic.

THE PHOTO:
I rarely post personal-type photos, but this one was done with consent (and modesty was maintained if you were wondering).

We're due on the 26th (Australia Day), but we'll see if 'she' is like her mother and wants to sleep in, or like me and get out and get started...

I hope this isn't the start of a trend of baby-type photos, but I can imagine that it won't be the last.

POST PROCESSING:
This was shot in really low light without any key-lighting (as I had planned), so it's not tack-sharp, but I kind of like that. It was cropped tight, vignette, black & white filter, and duplicated with a soft-light blend with Gaussian blue (a technique I got from Chromasia way back in 2003)

This feed item was originally published on 23 Jan 2013 under: general, people, photos

© 2013 Mike Hudson for seriocomic.

THE PHOTO:
Sadly, this little fella's backside was the sharpest shot I managed to grab of him. He was on a low leaf of the grape vine and it was windy (excuses excuses).

POST PROCESSING:
Crop, Bleach Bypass filter, sharpen.

This feed item was originally published on 20 Jan 2013 under: flora, home, macro, photos

© 2013 Mike Hudson for seriocomic.

THE PHOTO:
With temperatures hitting the 40 Celsius mark here in Melbourne, the only thing that seems immune to the heat are the busy bees going about their jobs.

POST PROCESSING:
Tight crop, levels, vignette, noise-reduction, sharpen.

This feed item was originally published on 04 Jan 2013 under: fauna, home, photos

© 2013 Mike Hudson for seriocomic.

This feed item was originally published on 01 Jan 2013 under: rhetoric

© 2013 Mike Hudson for seriocomic.

THE PHOTO:
Wild strawberries grown at home.

POST PROCESSING:
Crop, vignette, auto-tone.

This feed item was originally published on 29 Dec 2012 under: flora, home, photos

© 2012 Mike Hudson for seriocomic.

THE PHOTO:
We're not sure how effective these are, but the faux-cat silhouette garden ornaments are meant to keep unwanted fauna from the garden. I think humans are more startled than any birds, possums or other cats...

POST PROCESSING:
Rotate, levels, bleach-bypass filter, vignette, contrast/levels and sharpen.

This feed item was originally published on 24 Dec 2012 under: general, home, photos

© 2012 Mike Hudson for seriocomic.