Well technically my Mum’s 5 years to 60 but I think she looks great now than when she was much younger. Haha I’m sure she’s gonna credit this to her strict beauty regiment which I frankly can never match up to. I’m praying my rotund genes and generally round face will keep me looking youthful when I reach her age.
I took this picture of my Mum on her birthday in the middle of an afternoon tea treat on her birthday. I think the natural light was pretty flattering on her face as it shone through the broad British colonial era windows of the E&O hotel. I went with my favorite low-key approach (haha is this gonna be my “style” for portraiture?) in this shot.
It’s interesting how I scarcely ever spend much time post-processing my pictures these days. The major tweaking to this picture is in the color correction; I found the auto white balance a bit too blue for my taste. There wasn’t really a serious need to jazz anything up apart from the usual contrast boost (very subtle and gently added) and then I slapped in the watermark and resized for posting.
Some might credit this to how “perfect” Fujifilm’s Jpegs are… But the thing is I prefer dealing with RAW, especially with Fuji cameras. I admit I’m more particular with color rendering and Apple Aperture’s RAW engine does a better job that fits closer to my vision of the end product. I wonder how long more I can still stick with Aperture, since it’s discontinued. 🙁
Picture taken with the Fujifilm X-T1 and XF 23mm 1.4R lens, slapped with a Zeiss circular polarizer.