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26/1/2012

2012-01-26T16:04:00.001+11:00

Happy Australia day, everyone! I love living in Australia so much. I just came back from a shoot up in Mount Macedon and it was beautiful! The air was fresh and smelled of gum trees and the scenery was so lush and green. All you could hear was the rustling of trees. And this was only half an hour from my house! More about that shoot later.

Here are some photos from Inverloch. We spent nearly every day at the beach and I got so dark Luke mistook me for an Indian girl! I had so much fun on this trip. You can probably tell why I love Australia so much. This place was breathtaking both underwater and on land.

Can you spot the fish?

22/1/2012

2012-01-22T18:35:00.002+11:00

Random snaps from December.

Opening of my first music video for Indigo and the bear.

My first "white christmas" in Australia. This is definitely a Christmas I will remember!

The night before I turned 18!

My nails matched Luke's shirt and my kitchen. Hehe

Suzuki night market

Noms.

2012-01-10T20:25:00.001+11:00

So 2011 was an unbelievable year for me. I experienced New York fashion week twice with Tumblr, covered Australian fashion week for Oyster magazine in Sydney, graduated high school, got paid for doing what I love, fell in love and met so many amazing people. It was definitely a memorable year and I am so grateful to have experienced it. Lets hope 2012 will be just as good! I have been using Instagram throughout 2011 when I did not have a camera in hand so I thought I would fill you guys in today.

How I spent the first day of 2011. Still my favourite beach.

At an aquarium in Queensland.

How I spent my 17th birthday.

Cutest kittens at the pet shop.

A day at the beach when we found heaps of starfish lying around.

My favourite part about flying! I could stare out the window of an airplane for hours.

A beautiful moment.

Mucking around in school.

Best purchase in 2011.

My photos on window at school.

Autumn!

Groovin the Moo 2011.

Sunrise at the Sydney Opera house.

Runway show for Lover.

Attempt at making a panoramic photo haha. View from my hotel room in Sydney. First time travelling by myself.

Where I shot my first music video for Indigo and the Bear.

Peculiar clouds.

My favourite person in the world.

Lantern festival.

My face. In a magazine. I still can't believe it.

On the way to Jindabyne with Luke and his family. This lake was so still it was like a mirror. Such a beautiful moment.

A lonely house.

I love him.

Froot Loops and chai tea.

NYC #2. Walking amongst buildings.

Fashion presentation.

Front row at Oscar de la Renta.

An incredible city!

My new favourite perfume.

Flying back home.

The end and the beginning.

On location.

Behind my boyfriends house. Looks like a painting.

The cover I designed.

Best buskers I have ever seen. They are called Set Sail.

At Suzuki night market.

Gingerbread house that we made.

An instalment at ACMI. A surreal moment.

Ridiculous hailstorm on Christmas day. I guess it is considered our first white christmas in summer.

Inverloch with Luke and his family.

Our second last night in Inverloch.

22/12/2011

2011-12-22T10:35:00.001+11:00

Hello dear readers! Here is a shoot I did back in July for Audrey Grace Boutique but now that it's open I can post the photos. I hope you enjoy them. Happy holidays! :)

Models: Anna Denton, Bianca Elencevski, Rachael Moon, Zoe Jackson

12/12/2011

2011-12-12T12:28:00.001+11:00

Ah I didn't realise I didn't blog about my shoot with Adem Karahan from Giant Management! This was my first time shooting a male model. I was so nervous before but it ended up not being too different from working with female models. He was so easy to work with, too! We shot this on rooftop carparks, around the city and the lovely people at Magnation let us use their space upstairs. Every time I went into Magnation I kept thinking about how lovely the light was. Many thanks to Tahlia Raniti for make-up and iy.d style for styling this shoot. You all did a fantastic job :)

Model: Adam Karahan @ Giant Management
Stylist: iy.d style
Make-up: Tahlia Raniti

Hire me?

2011-11-11T12:16:00.002+11:00

If you need a photographer or know somebody who does please email me at jeanninetan@gmail.com. I finish exams in 10 days and then I'm free pretty much 24/7 so I'd absolutely love to get some jobs lined up! If you haven't seen my work, my portfolio is at www.jeanninetan.com. Please pass this on :)

28/10/11

2011-10-28T18:19:00.001+11:00

I love how I post more than ever during exam period. Did I tell you guys that I graduated? Well I did. Anyway last weekend I did a shoot with Romersk Sleepwear. It was so much fun to shoot. And we were lucky to be able to shoot outside when it was raining all day! Fun fact, the models were pretty much modelling for the first time. Aren't they amazing at it?

www.romersk.com/
Models: Molly Lean, Alana Camm
Designer/stylist: Sophie Chan
Make-up/hair: Bree Rose

25/10/2011

2011-10-25T12:41:00.001+11:00

On the weekend I did a test shoot for a beautiful model named Paris Riddle :)

Model: Paris @ Giant Management
Stylists: Jessica Le, Rhiannon Brooks

10/10/11

2011-10-10T19:28:00.001+11:00

As requested, I am now selling presets for Adobe Lightroom. They are $7 each. Email me at jeanninetan@gmail.com if interested! PayPal is preferred :)

27/8/2011

2011-08-27T12:34:00.001+10:00

I am attending New York Fashion Week once again! I am so flattered and grateful to be invited and sponsored by Tumblr again. Many thanks to Rich Tong for his hard work. I could imagine exploding from stress if I were in his shoes. I can't wait to go to New York once again and meet the 19 other bloggers! I am also super excited to be flying with Jessica and Lucia to New York on the 4th of February. Soon you can view photos from my trip on my Tumblr at www.papertissue.tumblr.com/tagged/nyfw :)

19/8/2011

2011-08-19T20:02:00.000+10:00

Hi guys! I haven't posted in ages due to school (trying to catch up before I miss a couple of weeks of Year 12). So since I don't have any photos to share, I thought I'd post some of my school work! If you're not interested in bad graphic design then click away. As you can tell, I compensated for my bad drawing skills by purposefully looking like it was drawn by a 5 year old.
This is supposed to be a swing tag for a clothing brand. It is supposed to look recycled! My first graphic design piece. The background is recycled paper in the tag I submitted.

Here are a few mock-up calendars. It's supposed to come as a freebie in a magazine.

And here is an editorial in my magazine!

Haha I mainly wanted to post these up so I can keep them for later. In a few years I can see how much I have changed. It is really fascinating now looking at all the things I have created when I was younger. I hope it was slightly entertaining. Don't worry, in 2 weeks I'll have HEAPS of photos up (it's still a secret ;))

6/8/2011

2011-08-06T19:41:00.001+10:00

I have really exciting news I'm itching to tell you all but you will hear in good time! Here are some random film photos. I love film so much more than digital but it costs around $20 a roll for the film and developing here! Poo.

Pita bread, falafel and hummus. Soooo yum and it only takes 5 minutes to make!

Painting things.

20/7/2011

2011-07-20T13:40:00.002+10:00

Here are my favourite outtakes from my shoot with Zoe Jackson for INK magazine which you can read here. I've also got some non-fashion (it's true) film photos coming soon! I'm making too many posts now because I might not have time when school starts up again. Sorry.

Model: Zoe Jackson

19/7/2011

2011-07-19T20:46:00.001+10:00

More outtakes from my shoot for Audrey Grace Boutique!

Models: Bianca Elencevski, Zoe Jackson, Anna Denton and Rachael Moon

14/7/2011

2011-07-14T14:10:00.001+10:00

On Monday I had an opportunity to shoot with 4 gorgeous girls for an exhibition in Audrey Grace Boutique! We read books, held back laughter, ran down the streets, sat in random neighbours gardens and posed on rocks in the middle of a lake. We were all muddy and tired but was a lot of fun! Here are some outtakes.

Models: Anna Denton, Zoe Jackson, Bianca Elencevski

2011-07-08T20:32:00.000+10:00

Yesterday I shot a short film for a school project. After we were done, I took a few photos of the lovely Olivia Giarrusso. It was freezing cold but it was a fun day :)

26/6/2011

2011-06-26T10:11:00.001+10:00

Yesterday I shot photos of Zoe Jackson for INK magazine's summer issue. The shoot was done in her house, backyard and at this abandoned creche across the street. It was a lot of fun! I edited this batch differently to all my other photos. What do you think? Here are the outtakes:

15/6/2011

2011-06-15T20:53:00.002+10:00

More outtakes from my shoot with Atomica Mag :)

2011-06-12T15:31:00.000+10:00

I'm so excited have my editorial in the next issue of Atomica magazine. It's the first issue to sell in NY and around Europe! I took these shots at my school with Meg Doyle from Vivien's Model Management. We met at a festival last month. How gorgeous is she?
Many thanks to Jessica Le for helping with the wardrobe! :)
Here are some outtakes:

2011-05-23T17:12:00.000+10:00

2011-05-19T17:46:00.000+10:00

Hi guys, I'm selling some photographs here if you're interested :)

2011-04-22T22:59:00.000+10:00

I drove (I'm an awesome driver besides the fact I can't look left without swerving right.. sorry car next to me) to Dandenong Ranges. It was crisp, slightly chilly and you could smell the smoke from fireplaces nearby. It is autumn but the leaves didn't crunch because it must have rained the night before. Now what is the point of life?
Before I get to that, here is a picture of my nails. It's pretty exciting cause we're not allowed to have painted nails at school. Anyway.

Don't worry, I didn't take this while driving.

After looking at these photos, I realise they look really kind of depressing. Especially the lone leaf. Sorry.

2011-04-10T14:05:00.000+10:00

Blogger, we are back in Australia.
Part 1: Luke and I travelled 2 hours to Portsea. The weather was amazing. Hot, sunny, dry, 30 degrees of goodness. We went snorkelling under the pier and it was like being in another world where trees were replaced with seaweed. They created creepy shadows when the sun shone through the cracks of the pier into the water. Really, really lovely. Luke saw me swim above a stingray but I missed it. I need to get an underwater camera.

The homemade falafel and eggplant dip was SO good..

This is apparently how I look when I drink. Never again.
Part 2: Our school had a house performance thing near the city so we planned to have dinner at as many places as we could before going. Plan failed because Luke is a hungry obese boy and got too hungry!

This teenager ran by laughing really obnoxiously and they scowled at him.

From Kate Spade :)

2011-04-02T16:16:00.001+11:00

My first pretzel was quite disappointing.

http://triciawillgoplaces.tumblr.com/

It was too windy to take photos outside so here is my reflection filled tourist photo:

PIZZA!!

2011-03-26T10:18:00.000+11:00

More New York photos.

2011-03-16T18:09:00.000+11:00

Here is part 1 of random touristy photos. Sorry for taking so long to post this. I've been busy catching up with schoolwork (last year of school, yay!) and editing fashion week photos and stuff.

Above are photos with my 50mm. Below are photos of my 50mm when it broke and wouldn't focus at all:

These are photos of my kit lens. Yuckkk! :

Times Square, yo:

First photo with my 35mm:

Outside Rich Tong's suite. Oh how I miss New York!

2011-01-31T10:31:00.000+11:00

I got a new desk! :)

A card we bought at North Melbourne market for a friend. You can buy them here, too.

And now I'm packing for New York! :)

2011-01-21T18:40:00.000+11:00

FILM! I love my film camera so much. Only auto-levels for this lot.
This roll is so random. It has stayed in my camera for 5 months..

This is my fave. This little guy was walking around the car park squawking it's head off.

The rare and mystical sand turtle. I'm not sure what happened to his eyes.

(shells)

More macarons haha.. I guess I'm a bit obsessed.

Not sure what I was thinking, haha :|

2011-01-06T15:27:00.000+11:00

Yesterday Eelime and I had a photoshoot at St Kilda beach & the city.
She was such a pleasure to work with and so gorgus! :)
Visit her website here: hhanger.blogspot.com

2011-01-03T23:03:00.001+11:00

So, you guys asked for actions and here they are:

Cheesy names, I know. Forgive me!

Each pack is $24 AUD.
2 packs for $42.
Individual actions are $9.

If you buy 2 packs you also get the purple action for free.

Email me at jeanninetan@gmail.com saying what you would like to purchase. Paypal only, please and thank you.

I hope you find the pricing fair. I don't want many photos to end up having the same colours and I don't want them to be pirated. I spent a lot of work on these by experimenting with many different actions and layers to develop my favourite looks. These are actually .psd files, which I prefer from action files. They don't freeze up your computer and don't take 3 minutes to complete. It's just a simple drag and drop and you can edit these however you like. However, PLEASE do not modify and sell or redistribute. I'm trusting you guys. *end of rant*

2011-01-02T19:19:00.000+11:00

This post will probably seem terribly inconsistent. Halfway through editing I decided to experiment with different coloured gradients and I liked how it turned out so.. yeah. Sorry about that! I hope you guys had an awesome New Years Eve and Day (That sounds weird but whatever). I spent mine at Point Addis beach. AMAZING beach I'm telling you. So dreamy and perfect waves for water sports.

These photos are from Christmas day to yesterday.

San Churro.

Balancing salt on salt. This is what we do in our freetime.

Different day, same thing, haha!

These sunglasses always make me look stupid.
Me: "WOAH LOOK AT THE SUNSET, IT'S SO RED!"
The others: "..."

Here is the real red sunset.. taken a day after, I'm pretty sure. The Exif data is wrong!

Point Addis

Guess what this is?

Do you have any New Years resolutions? I don't, but I do like to hear others :)

2010-12-24T20:41:00.000+11:00

Part two! We took a boat to Wave Break island. Here are some prawns.

We saw lots of famous people's houses.

This is where we snorkeled and fed some fish.

It turned stormy very fast.

(Butterfly)

The next day we went to Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary before we flew back to Melbourne. It rained non-stop (kinda hard to tell in most of the photos but it was pouring!)

I tried to capture some rain bokeh hehe.

We took this cute train around the place.

Many of the animals here creeped me out.. they just stood there, fearless of humans. Some got so close to the train tracks you could pet them while the train was moving..

This guy stopped eating and came closer to pose. I love lorries.

The joey's a bit too big for mum!

My mum drank this hot chocolate keeping the froth intact.. talent.

There was a lorikeet feeding time before we left. There were so many of them it was crazy! They must breed like rabbits. Here is a picture of me, terrified. http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs695.snc4/63558_473506352546_629092546_6394939_8201987_n.jpg

On another note, happy holidays! I hope you're enjoying Christmas eve if you celebrate it. All our relatives are in Singapore so ours is pretty chillax (as you can see I'm updating my blog, lol).

2010-12-20T14:47:00.001+11:00

This is a pretty long post.. I went to the Gold Coast for 4 nights.

Bye bye kitty.

Bye bye Melbourne.

Flickr really likes pixelating my photos..

Sunrise.

Awkward lean. The hair band on my wrist left a tan line.

Movie World!

Yes, still in Movie World. I sat the Lethal Weapon it thrashed my head around so much I got a headache. It is physically painful, guys!

Dinner! They also sold bubble tea.. at a restaurant. I was amazed. It was raining and storming while we ate outside.

I liked it here. It reminded me of Singapore. The many apartments, nature, humidity, rain and asians (there were SO many asian tourists!!).

We went to Sea World the next day.

This is a random boys hand. I hope people don't mind. There are quite a few random hands in this post! :P

We're supposed to be feeding the rays, mummmmm.

Can you guess what it is?

Sea cucumbers feel so weird.

Back to the polar bears. This guy held the flower in his mouth and dove with it and he was SO CUTE.

It was stuffed with toys.

He was very persistent.

And it paid off!

More pictures from my trip are coming soon!

2010-12-07T11:30:00.000+11:00

Sorry, guys!! I haven't had many opportunities to shoot photos. Here is what I've collected over the past month, though. Some are still in my film camera. If food porn is not your thing, I suggest you click away now! I don't know why I enjoy taking photos of food so much, haha.

Grilled cheese, spinach and garlic butter sandwiches Luke and I made. Food of the Gods, I swear!

It was my Dad's birthday.

Pumpkin dip.

I love this tree.

One of the many bowls of cherries we collected from our tree. I lovelovelove summer!

Pretty intense, huh? I don't know if my hand is really small or if the cherry was really big..

Vampire cat?

Sorry for the short post. I will try to take more photos for next time!

2010-10-28T17:33:00.000+11:00

Random shots from my house and Hanging Rock. I didn't actually make it to the rock because I left my mobile at the cafe sooooo yeah. It's great how it's only 30-40 mins away from my house, though :)

Lagoon Park

My favourite

Smallest focal point ever?

Pubes

Bunny! I cropped it so you guys could actually see it :)

Then we got chips.

And home sweet home to my gorgeous little man.

2010-09-30T23:09:00.001+10:00

Brace yourself for a spew of randomness! It takes a while to gather enough photos worth uploading :)

I've found a new obsession with those damn scented candles. Why must they smell so good / steal my money?!

At Luke's dad's accounting building place. It was actually quite beautiful. Ignore this photo.

A drawinggggg.

Of course, I cannot pass spring without a cheesy flower photo. The exact same tree in my garden every time!

I don't know how many photos I have of the back of Pancake's head, either. It's always there.

The teabag was in an extraordinary shape.

Luke and I went to the Melbourne show:

It's a cake!

We missed Operator Please but caught a man lit up with fire who jump like 2309434 metres.

Dippin' Dots is what the whole Melbourne Show is about!

And alpacas who rub their face in fans.

And more alpacas! (btw, they felt SO nice.. )

And tourist photo.

Prettiest feathers ever.

His face was stuck like that!!

2010-09-01T20:45:00.000+10:00

Borsch, Vodka and Tears

An amazing table.

My finds from Camberwell market.

On the way to Yarra Glen. Flickr blurred my photosssss :(

A tea tree!

We ate at Yering Station.

On the way to Marysville.

Is that tree falling??

2010-08-18T21:08:00.000+10:00

Film photos very slowly taken over the past few months maybe? WARNING: Lots and lots of food porn. And macarons. Mmm..
I'm making a food book for an Art project :)

Macarons from Lindt Cafe.

Chocolate and mint cupcake from Little Cupcakes.

My oven. I had one last shot left and was desperate.

My lunch at Toscanini's.

Switch! I love this place.

Baguette at Le Traiteur.

Our collection of hot chocolates at Koko Black.

Almond and pear? tart from La Tropezienne.

Macarons from Cacao.

Camberwell Sunday market.

2010-08-12T21:04:00.002+10:00

Some photos from a few different days...
I loooove light from windows, so it's only natural for me to go crazy over the light in my car :)

I love these tights and socks my dad bought for me from Japan.

Cheap shoes I bought at a night market in Singapore. I love them to bits. (I love things too much :( )

I LOVE candy necklaces. Just kidding, I'll stop now.

We walked past this really narrow alleyway. I ~~forced~~ my brother to climb up it so I could get a few snaps.

Yes, if I like your house I will take a photo of it from my car. (LOOK at those lovely white roses *sigh*)

Macarons are one of my favourite things to photograph. It's pretty much impossible to make them look bad. Clockwise, here are rosewater, strawberry, passionfruit and hazelnut macarons from Lindt cafe. Hazelnut was my fave!

Christian and I raided the Pocky section (They sell SHARK FIN flavoured Pocky... wth?!) and it was good. Original chocolate and strawberry Pocky still wins, though.

We visited RMIT university with a few kids. I wasn't sure if photography was prohibited, so quickly stole a single photo. The Fine Arts media building was bursting of talent. I wish they all had websites so I could show you all. These people should be famous!

After school we found this huge field and it was magical...

Yeah, that idea seems too good to be true where I live.

Looking at hard rubbish can be tempting. We couldn't let this beauty go to waste. It had travelled to Sri Lanka and back and was sticky in all the right places.

2010-07-31T11:17:00.002+10:00

I wanted to make scones a while ago as a result of the Masterchef failures. I couldn't believe they couldn't cook scones. SCONES!! I thought I was up for a challenge, but it was actually insanely easy. Whoever thought of putting a soft drink in their dough is a freakin' genius.
http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/6036/lemonade+scones

Don't worry, this post is not just about my successful baking experience. We went to the Tim Burton Exhibition at ACMI on Thursday night. I wanted to show you guys so many things but photography was prohibited. All I can say is, Tim Burton is insanely creative and wonderful and talented and I would like to bear his children.

I took a photo of the entrance so SUCK IT, ACMI!! HAHA!! (jk)
Anyway, after that we went to Southgate to pig out. I had Nacho Fries (nachos but replacing the nachos with fries...) and peanut butter / caramel pear / banana pavlova ice-cream. I salivated as I wrote that.

Saskia and I had a mini photo-shoot. Isn't she pretty?!
Anyway, here is The Tiger and Me, the most underrated band in the universe.

And Judith Lanigan was amazing, too!

2010-07-30T19:40:00.000+10:00

OH sdfaodfjaoif.. I've forgotten to post more pictures from the museum.. HERE WE GO, SORRY!!
I honestly thought I had posted them already! *cue eyelash batting*

WARNING: This is a pretty massive post. I love the museum a lot.

I quite like the contast.

This stick insect kept trying to climb on the window..

Are they mating or? All of the insects in this enclosure were in this position..

2010-07-06T16:20:00.001+10:00

We went to the Melbourne Museum yesterday! Heeeere is Simone :)

Me and my cheesy awkward smile.

There are half of the photos! I'm wearing (prescription) sunglasses indoors typing this and I feel like an absolute fool and can't see well. I'm getting my glasses altered soooo I think I'll edit more photos another day, true?

2010-06-22T18:18:00.000+10:00

I edited this batch of photos on my Macbook and I've noticed that the colours on here are much more bright and everything is so clear when compared with my Acer. Please tell me how these show up on your screen and what I should change! Thanks :)

Pandan cake! I love this stuff.

Sugarcane restaurant.

This fried rice. Omg.

The taro balls in coconut milk was quite bland, though. Sorry, I don't mean to turn this into a food blog :P

The Mill. I fell in love with this lamp.

Hardware lane :)

We walked to Knox Place and got some crepes at Ichipan.

Nutella and bananas.

Crown to get some mango gelato.

2010-06-03T15:32:00.000+10:00

I thought it was pretty funny :)

I ran out of frozen food.

We went to a Jamaican restaurant and had a grapefruit with rum, condensed milk and cinnamon D:

2010-05-29T16:39:00.000+10:00

So basically I've been studying non-stop and haven't taken any photos except for a gross picture of old left overs (I thought it was cool cause it was all cube shaped (this is how easily amused you are with too much study)).

I think I might save up for a MacBook just for Photo Booth.

2010-05-18T17:37:00.000+10:00

Here are some of the photos I took at my school's athletics carnival... I used the 55-250mm kit lens for these.

2010-05-13T17:49:00.000+10:00

I'm writing a children's book for a VCE English Language project. I'm pretty excited about it! It's like the picture below x26. It's amazingly time consuming D:

Anyway.. here are some pictures:

2010-05-04T21:10:00.000+10:00

My failed attempt with Anzac cookies and we went to this really awesome restaurant named Colonel Tan's.

2010-04-28T18:57:00.000+10:00

We went to Campari House for Jona's birthday. It was on a rooftop and eating on a rooftop makes you feel 100x cooler than everybody else. They had fences made from doors and the bathroom was crazy awesome.
Sucks to have my 50mm lens, though. I can't fit anything in the bloody frame. Grr.
Do you guys think I should get a kit lens (18-55mm)? Or save up for another prime lens.. probably under 35mm..

Anyway, thanks Jona for a fantastic day and happy birthday for the 25th of April :)

It looked like the building was see-through.

The bartender's special mix. It was really super dooper sweet and everyone died a little.

So basically everyone ordered pizza and they barely fitted on the table.

Except for Jess. Weirdo.

In the bathroom.

We went bowling and I sucked at it.

Then I visited my dad's shop (come visit Big Picture People at Watergardens!! It's opening this Friday the 30th. Tell them I sent you and you'll get a high-five. Or a confused face. Probably the later).

2010-04-22T19:03:00.000+10:00

This post is dedicated to Rose who asked me to update. I'm sorry guys, there really isn't much to photograph around here. I've just been busy with school, work, eating myself to death and begging my parents to take me driving (I really want my P's and I still have 115 hours to go!).

We went to Sounds Loud festival on Sunday!

They had these energy saving bikes in which they used us as guinea pigs to fuel their electricity. They visited our school a few weeks before and it was quite a coincidence. Luke likes them a lot :|

I freaking love bubble tea. I don't care how stereotypically Asian it makes me look or how they often get stuck in my throat. Having something chewy in your drink makes it 100% nicer.

Here is a picture of my ugly mug for you Formspring kiddies :)

We all get a little bored sometimes.

Yes, those are Caesar salad flavoured chips.

2010-04-18T09:54:00.000+10:00

Here is the first roll from my Canon A-1 with a 50mm 1:4 lens. I used Fuji Superia 400 film. I used minimal editing so that it would look like the prints.

Mistakes.

This turned out unbelievably red.

I tried out double exposure! I'm not quite sure how my hand turned into a shadow..

Also, what do you guys think of the new layout?

2010-04-13T17:26:00.001+10:00

I'm not a Photoshop image editing genius, seriously. I only started using this program less than 2 years ago and I'll probably use the wrong terminologies and everything.
Anyway, here is how I edit my photos!

STEP 1: Open the unedited picture in the image editing software you use. I use Adobe Photoshop CS4, but most this tutorial should work for most programs.

STEP 2: Create a curve adjustment layer and click "Auto" (one of my favourite buttons). Drag the black line wherever until you like how it looks.

STEP 3: Create a vignette. Go to Layer > New Fill Layer > Gradient...
And change the settings as shown. Click on the colours to change them and ensure one side is transparent!
Make sure the opacity is NOT set to 100% or it will look horrible.

STEP 4: Create another curve adjustment layer and shape the individual red, green and blue layers as shown.
Remember to change the opacity! Different photos require different opacities and curves.

STEP 5: Adjust the brightness and contrast.

Save your image :)

By the way, you definitely shouldn't follow this exactly. The layers differ for almost every image I edit. I hope this helps, anyway!

2010-04-08T11:03:00.000+10:00

It is SO hard to get consistent colours through 35 or so photographs. I spent around 3 hours editing these and I've given up. Look at all of these individually, please - not as a series, and please do not find the unedited versions :)
Anyway, on Tuesday we went to Botanical Gardens for our Art projects.The lovely Simone Singh was our model. Isn't she gorgeous? :)

I will keep this photo here no matter what she says! SIMONE >:@!

This bird hates me.

My favourite, I think.

Ashleigh has serious problems.

2010-04-06T19:45:00.000+10:00

We went to Kyneton for lunch... Oven Break is one of the best games on the iPhone, really!

They gave us vegetables freshly picked from their garden. It was pretty cool. I loved the dark natural light and the atmosphere was really great. After that, I worked until 11pm. It was a great Easter Sunday :))

Selling more prints

2010-04-05T11:57:00.006+10:00

I'm selling all prints on my blog.

The prices are:

6 x 4"	$3
6 x 8"	$6
8 x 12"	$10

(not including shipping!)

If you're interested, please email me at jeanninetan@gmail.com with:

1.) The size you would like

2.) Glossy or matte finish

3.) Your name, address and method of payment (Paypal is preferred).

Thanks :)

2010-04-05T11:23:00.001+10:00

On the morning of Good Friday we went to Mt Macedon.

I nearly fell trying to get back down. My loving family took photos of the incident instead of trying to help me.

We stopped for lunch and I had this delicious vegetarian frittata :)

I actually got photos of me!! :)
I was so excited to wear this. They're actually shorts with pockets. I will never understand why all garments don't have pockets.

This was the scenery from the memorial cross. You can usually see all the little buildings from here.

My dad and brother are somewhere there.

There were people coming through the fog and they looked at me like I was weird or something.

It was so beautiful and I think I was quite lucky having the opportunity to capture the fog. By the time we drove back down, the roads were clear and ordinary. I really want to live here one day!

2010-04-03T16:35:00.000+11:00

Hey guys, I'm selling prints of my film photos at $3 AUD each or something like that. We can work something out :)

They’re 6x4 on matte paper.

If you’re interested email me at jeanninetan@gmail.com with your:

1) name and address
2) prints you’d like (choose from www.flickr.com/photos/papertissue/sets/72157623757668324/
3) your Paypal email or method of payment.

2010-04-02T16:07:00.000+11:00

This morning we went to Mt Macedon and it was incredible! It's only a 35 minute drive away from my house, but it felt like one of those little quiet towns you drive hours and hours to get to. It was all foggy since it was one of the first cold days in Melbourne. It felt like we were in a cloud and ahhhh. Beautiful.
ANYWAY: This post has nothing to do with that :)

Mum cooked some fried mock duck from the Asian grocers. The texture resembled the fat from meat and the skin was freakingly similar. It was an interesting experience, but one I will hopefully never try again.

Ashleigh and I watched The Last Song. Disregarding Miley Cyrus' strange facial expressions, the annoying little boy and the abundance of crying girls in the audience, it was pretty good. There were tear-jerking worthy moments every 10 seconds... srsly.

I've got around 200 photos of magical-ness to edit.. new post soon, I promise :)

2010-03-30T15:40:00.000+11:00

Urgh I'm a horrible blogger. I have to get my roll of film developed soon and our car is being repaired, so that sucks. There were two moths stuck on our window and it was quite beautiful. Then my cat took the washing off the line, mum rushed out the door and squished the moth on a bush and it twitched and fell on the floor..
I don't get why they're just.. there.. somebody please explain?

2010-03-20T15:57:00.000+11:00

Second roll from Smile's camera which I took a week ago. I got myself a Canon A-1 with a 50mm 1:4 lens after much deliberation. By the way, www.keh.com is the shit, guys (but also pretty damn slow).
I can't wait to start taking photos with him! I named him Oliver and he's a beauty. He has that gorgeous old camera smell, as well. Let's make camera marriage legal, now :)
Here are some photos taken with Fujifilm Superia ASA 400:

I tried to save this one, but it came out horribly overexposed. Maybe cause it was the first on the roll? I don't know.

I made the poor thing stand like that for a while to ensure I got the focus right. His smile slowly faded.

Pancake is a pain to take photos of, sometimes. I really like the colours in this, though.

I will live in an apartment in the city with one kid and a cat. I will do whatever I want, travel by skateboard and earn 100 million a year. Bring it on.

I couldn't help myself.

This is my baby, which I don't play nearly enough. His name is Bernard.

We went to Altona beach again and the water was clear and beautiful. (Why the eff is there blood in the water?!)

Check out the boy jumping. I didn't even realise there were people there. I love when this happens :)

2010-03-13T12:18:00.000+11:00

I haven't been feeling too well and I have a heap of homework and work so I'm missing out on Blackbird market today :(
Part of my homework was to experiment on some photos relating to my art final so I dug up some photos from Falls Creek and omgsh I miss that place so much!
I went there twice last year and it was absolutely beautiful.
Most of this doesn't have anything to do with my art folio and I kind of went on a photo editing tangent.
Oh well :)

Some people have asked for photos of me so..

(Look who's stealing the spotlight!)

This is what happens when you hand my mother a camera. (This is not the first or last time this has happened!!)

This was BEFORE Luke brought me to the intermediate slope..

I miss this goat. We went for a walk around the caravan park and jumped/fell through a muddy stream. We fed it leaves and named it and Luke's brother filmed it all but I lost the clip :(

2010-03-09T16:39:00.000+11:00

Smile let me borrow her Canon AE-1 and here is all of my first successful roll (I didn't load the first one properly and it came out blank). Not all of them are the best, but whatever.
They're all SOOC minus resizing and auto-curves.
I really regret not jotting down any notes. I switched between "Program" and choosing my own shutter speed and don't remember when.
I also used Kodak Gold 200 (over here we only have the incredible range of Kodak Gold 200 and Fuji Superia 400)
Here they are, anyway!

Double exposure fail.

Big W scan fail.

Accidentally clicked the shutter fail.

Repulsive.

2010-03-05T21:42:00.001+11:00

Here are some random snippets of the last two weeks. Sorry I've been so bad with updating! I shall collect my 2nd film roll soon from Smile's AE-1 (I didn't load the first one properly... I'm an idiot :( )

Some super spicy lentil curry that made me cry.

The best thing about Easter: Chocolate hot cross buns. I remember waking up JUST for these some mornings.

A Chinese New Year party.

A circus. It was my first time and it was all pretty good (sans the 'bouncing balls' act and the cheesy gangster poses).

My bread had holes in it and I was not pleased... So I took a photo of it :P

Mock chicken schnitzel sandwich. I would die without these! (Probably from malnutrition... but they're really good, too).

Part of a dress I really like wearing.

Chinese New Year dinner #3? It was a super dodgy restaurant and I'm pretty sure I tasted sand from my Chinese broccoli. They brought us to this room out the back where the toilet was and the door had a hole in it. Pretty gross. After this we had some creme brulee and pizza at a nicer place.

Smile's camera which I'm borrowing! I can't wait to see the results. Isn't it gorgeous?

This came out surprisingly straight!

These are my dad's. He doesn't wear them nearly as much as he should! Yeah, I'm jealous of my dad's shoes.

Weirdest desert ever! It was like.. Pandan flavoured creme brulee with green coconut ice-cream and caramelised sweet potato chips. I had to try it.

And yeah.. I saw George Michael!

But he was really small... Damn you, Ethiad stadium!!

2010-02-22T18:45:00.000+11:00

Went to the St Kilda festival on Sunday. Not the Sunday yesterday. Sunday the 14th of February. I know, I'm horrible at updating!!

What the heck! Can somebody please explain how this happened? I swear I did not Photoshop the rainbow in.

This balloon kept hitting Smile in the face, so I had to let it go :(

We walked along the pier. Auto-curves does amazing things to water.

We watched Washington. Amazing, amazing, amazing.

This was actually a mistake but I like it :)

Then we caught a train to Crown Casino:

We queued up with sweaty people for around 10 minutes for this :P

Valentines day/Singles Awareness day :)

We also went to China Town:

How unfortunate.

We watched really loud firecrackers and visited E.B. Games:

Then I ate this thing.

2010-02-17T20:17:00.000+11:00

On Saturday, Luke and I went to the Blackbird markets in Fitzroy. I kinda missed the bokeh my 50mm 1.8 lens had, so I whipped it out once again. The limits were quite painful, though.. especially when taking photos of food. Does anyone know of a lens which has the bokeh of the 50mm with the flexibility of a kit lens? (18-55mm)

Timothy and Wilderness: http://www.myspace.com/timothyandwilderness

A cool window.

A nice cupcake.

A nice falafel burger.

A nice wall.

Great Earthquake. He's a really super talented and nice guy. He played multiple instruments, recorded them and looped them to make amazing songs: http://www.myspace.com/greatearthquake

I seriously love these.

Yeah Blackbird market is awesome. Check it: http://www.blackbirdmarket.com/

2010-02-16T20:38:00.000+11:00

That was taken a day before this:

And here's a crappy screenshot of a video I took..

Melbourne weather is absolutely lovely!

2010-02-11T15:23:00.000+11:00

I went to my neighbour's birthday party on Sunday and we went to the beach at Altona after school on Monday.

This is their dog, Max. He is huge and scares me quite a lot. I remember feeding him from my hands when he was a puppy.

We know how to have fun.

They don't look much like fish.

There were a million little snails everywhere. Squeeee.

I'm pretty sure I posted a picture like this on Tumblr, but I like it anyway.

2010-02-06T13:14:00.000+11:00

Sorry about the slow update. I've been pretty busy with my first week of the much dreaded VCE and training for work almost every day from 5-8pm. Here's some stuff in between.

The sunset one lovely night (SOOC).

Deliciousness.

A note written by my brother.

A poor bird my cat killed and left on our pavement :(

2010-01-30T20:11:00.000+11:00

Last Wednesday we went to the Suzuki Market. It was quite fun and the range of food was incredible.

It didn't taste like Chai.

2010-01-29T16:05:00.000+11:00

On Monday we went mini golfing at Waterfront City. All their walls were painted all nice :)

We had ice-cream and watched yet another band. (He is not Robbie Williams.)

2010-01-28T13:24:00.000+11:00

We went to Docklands for lunch and stuff on Sunday.

I got a candy watch from the arcade.

I absolutely loved this band, Francolin. I'm actually listening to them at the moment :)
http://www.myspace.com/francolinmusic

2010-01-27T12:14:00.000+11:00

We went to the Caroline Springs festival on the weekend. Sorry these posts are so late! I've been attending too many post Australia Day festivals.

We rode this after the fireworks and it was FREEZING! But so beautiful up there :)

This little bugger was hard to photograph >_>

OMG IT'S SHANNON NOLL!!!!!! :

Then I had a cup of Chai Hot Chocolate. Pretty insane.

Ashleigh thought it would be funny to shove her butt in all my photos.

And I got a spray on tattoo.

2010-01-22T13:05:00.003+11:00

haven't been taking many photos. We went to Camberwell market on Sunday morning. Ashleigh drank oily coffee and got hit by a tram door and Luke bought this awesome book about the alphabet. On Wednesday, we went to Brighton beach to celebrate Ashleigh's birthday. I went snorkeling for the first time and it was an amazing experience. We saw toad fish, jellyfish, coral, starfish and schools of miniature fish. I regret not buying an underwater camera, so I've ordered a Vivitar Mariner off Ebay. I can't wait til' it's here! Next up on my to-do list is to see the Weedy Sea Dragons at Portsea. Goodness, I love Australia. :)

The lovely Jona let me borrow her 18-55mm kit lens. Check her out here.. http://phoslux.blogspot.com/ I'm loving it so far:

2010-01-16T22:56:00.000+11:00

Luke-inator, bought the lovely Canon EOS 500D for Christmas, so here is what we saw in the last couple of days. Visit his photostream here.

He saved a bird from the streets.. I did not see this.

These are my new glasses, btw.

2010-01-16T17:13:00.000+11:00

We went to South Melbourne beach yesterday. The amazingly lovely and generous Smile gave me her Ultra Wide and Slim film camera which I've been coveting for my birthday. I went to Big W to get them developed today and they accidently broke it because they thought it was a disposable camera. Awesome. At least I got some results (with a scratch on every picture, mind you).
I only resized and used auto-curves on these.
Next time, I'll try to limit my photo taking.. I used up the whole roll by around 2pm. That is 7 hours of unphotographed goodness! :(

Tell me what you guys think about the camera: http://photojojo.com/store/awesomeness/wide-angle-slim
And if I should purchase a replacement. :P

2010-01-14T16:46:00.000+11:00

We went on a penguin tour and in their little waiting lobby they had a ton of cool fish :)

I apologize for the quality and complete lack of colour.. the guide had to use a red light, camera flashes weren't allowed and it was pitch black. :P

I think they're hugging..

This is supposed to mean something.

The sand I found in my shoe after we went sandboarding/tobogganing. It was 40 degrees celcius and we nearly died climbing up the dunes.

The sky turned from this..

To this in a few hours.. A friendly welcome from Melbourne :)

2010-01-11T12:09:00.000+11:00

We drove to Adelaide, slept a night at a hotel and hopped on a ferry to Kangaroo Island.

Funny looking veggie burger..

We got bored and had a drawing competition.

2010-01-10T13:58:00.000+11:00

I loved this shop. The woman was super nice and gave me this good luck charm.

I want.

I didn't realise she was in the picture.

There goes $60...

Hello, Melbourne. I'm still quite fond of you... :)

2010-01-08T12:15:00.001+11:00

And we're back in Singapore!

I freakin' love root beer floats.

This restaurant, The House had their menu in newspaper and magazine format. Awesum.

Awe!

Bird eating spaghetti.

2010-01-06T16:48:00.000+11:00

Okay haha, I know some of the editing looks kinda weird in some of these. I just got new glasses and there are blue dots everywhere and everything looks slightly fisheyed and blurry around the edges. My apologies. I hope I get used to them soon.. :(

The guy asked me to sit on the elephant and I think I could have peed on his leg. It was scary but amazing.

This little guy was chilling outside my parents' bedroom window. Even monkeys don't like the crusts of bread.

Me killing some babies.

2010-01-05T16:03:00.000+11:00

We took a ferry to Bintan, Indonesia.

Oh how I wished I could be on that plane instead of the dreaded ferry. I hate monsoon season with a passion. Everyone puked. I puked and felt like puking for the whole day.

A miniature model of where we stayed.

Where we ate.

2010-01-04T14:34:00.000+11:00

Sorry about the reflection. These are my cousin, Donna Ong's art.

We went to Sunghei road (theives' market).

Yeah.. I should buy a tripod.

2010-01-03T17:29:00.000+11:00

I ruined the picture.

We sat the Singapore flyer.

We went to my grandparents' 50th anniversary. (The main reason we came here).
I'm not sure if people mind their photos on the internet so here is a photo of me looking sexy and my grandparents:

It rained.

Here is my new sister-in-law. (They have matching teeth!!)

2010-01-02T13:42:00.000+11:00

2010-01-01T12:54:00.000+11:00

I came back from Kangaroo Island last night just in time to go to my dad's business partner's NYE party and we came home early to unpack and caught the fireworks. (Don't go to Kangaroo Island unless you really love driving 50km to reach the closest restaurant.)

I'm pretty happy about how these photos turned out as I didn't use a tripod. (TBH: I hardly know how to use one!) And I'm also lucky to have such badass neighbours ;)

ANYWAY.

Happy new year! 2009 has definitely been quite an eventful year. I hope you lovely readers enjoyed last year.

I hope to stay vegetarian for the year and have a lot of blood tests.. and to sort through the thousands of photos I've taken over my holidays to share my memories with you :)

Do you have any new year resolutions?

2010-01-01T12:25:00.000+11:00

Mum and I. My brother is good at focusing.

My family.. and dad.

We visited my Aunt's house.

And had lunch at Shangri-La.