if you think i should follow you on deviantart or you have some favourite artists whose work you love seeing pop up in your news feed, please link me so i can follow more people here <3

i love everything! my favourite is portrait photography, but i also love conceptual and landscape photographers. i love traditional artists and digital artists too.

thank you!

x

in anticipation of the release of my new lightroom 4 light leaks preset, i thought i would hold a little competition! i've never done this before, so it should be fun!

5 lucky winners will be chosen at random to win my new lightroom 4 light leaks preset. here is a little example of what it looks like:




light leaks contains two different presets, with two varying light leaks to add colour to your image. it hasn't been released yet, so the winners will be able to use these presets before anyone else. see more examples in my latest blog post, aurora.

the winners will also receive a free unreleased photoshop action that i was going to put up on digital film but decided to make an exclusive prize for this competition. but that's not all! on top of that, you get to choose one more product from digital film actions of your choice to be all yours.

now, onto the finer details of the competition!

prizes:

- a free copy of the lightroom 4 light leaks preset before it is released on digital film actions
- a free unreleased & exclusive photoshop action
- one free copy of anything from digital film actions

how to enter:

- submit your photos edited with the colours from free curve friday or presets and actions from digital film actions to this blog: www.digitalfilmactions.tumblr.com
- every entry must include your full name and the name of the action, curve or preset of mine that you used to edit that photo
- like my facebook photography page (so i can match your entry name + notify the winners)

details:

- the competition will run for 7 days, starting today! (saturday, 23rd of february)
- submissions close on saturday, 2nd of march. no submissions count after midnight (EST - sydney, australia time) on this date
- if you don't like my photography facebook page, i will have no way to tag you/be able to notify you that you've won
- if you don't include your name in your entry, i won't be able to match your name up through the likes on my photography page and notify you if you win
- submissions that don't include the name of the curve, action or preset used to edit them will be disqualified
- 5 winners will be chosen at random and will be announced on my facebook photography page + an edited version of this blog post
- you can enter as many times are you like!

how to submit your photos to the blog:

- go to www.digitalfilmactions.tumblr.com
- click on the 'submit' link on the top menu
- choose your competition entry
- add your name + the name of the colour preset used to edit the photo
- accept the terms of submission
- press submit!

your entry will be published no longer than a day after it was submitted if it follows all the rules!


don't forget to have a look through all the other submissions on the blog. i see this blog as a lovely collection of work from creatives just like you and me! so please try to support other photographers just like you'd like to receive support from them!

www.digitalfilmactions.tumblr.com

good luck! x



click here to see the official and original place the rules of the competition were submitted: [link]

i've always been a lover of the ugly pretty. i don't mind shooting in harsh sunlight or when my model is looking the other way or has a tangled mess of hair on her face. my camera clicks when someone takes a deep breath in or are tying their shoelaces on the side of the road. this year i want to shoot that more than ever. i want to shoot knees with bruises and hands rubbing tired eyes with dirt underneath plain fingernails. i want to run around barefoot in the forest with the wild bird i am taking pictures of in the few minutes of blue light after the sun sets and before the night sets in. i want to shoot designer clothing in the ocean and climb trees in dresses. i want to breathe life into my photography like it breathes life into me.

please comment with your twitter username so i can have some new accounts to follow

mine is [link]

x

i wrote a little blog post on the last day of twenty-twelve and recounted little stories of interesting things that happened and posted lots of unseen pictures of new things to come. you can read about my adventures here: [link] and also, here are a few of my favourite pictures from the post.


spending some time talking and photographing with kiara rose. a lovely soul who lives close to me and is a beautiful creative and talented person.


a portrait i took of kiara rose.


behind the scenes of fashion shoots.


self portraits on rainy christmas day.


pretty sunsets while photographing weddings.


shoots on the side of the road (this is emma sabjan) where police drove past and put their sirens on to scare us. they drove away laughing when we all jumped and screamed.


wise words on the street-side.


this is just a tiny bit of the whole lot of pictures i posted, so make sure you have a look through them! has anyone else written any 'goodbye 2012' blog posts? please share them with me, i would love to read them and see what you got up to last year and what you're hoping to do this year!

x

i have something very exciting to announce, i have finally released Digital Film, a website where you can find my personal raw presets and photoshop actions that i use on my own photos! 


i have also created a new blog where it is up to YOU to fill it up with pretty pictures edited with the actions and presets on digital film and the curves from free curve friday.

go to the blog here and click *submit* to upload your edited photos!

here's a little example of what you can find on the site:

do you prefer editing your photos using photoshop actions, or curves? levels, textures, maybe you edit your photos with lightroom or gimp?

let me know!

x

so since a few years ago when deviantart was bubbling with life, i was just wondering: how many of you are now living off photography, how many of you are working towards the dream of being a full time photographer, who just does it for a hobby and i guess the silence will let me know who doesn't go on da anymore

in the time i've been gone i've managed to create my dream of being a full time photographer come true. i live on my own with my boyfriend dan and my life in now a beautiful cycle of shooting and editing.

x

something i get asked a lot about is how to shoot in direct sunlight without a reflector or an extra light source. so i thought i'd put together a quick blog post with some image examples to give you ideas on how to position your model against the sun to achieve a certain look to your photos. i've noted the times in which the photos were taken, most of them range between 12pm - 6pm. between 12 and 2 is usually when australia has the harshest light of the day.

hopefully this blog post will inspire the thought that you can take beautiful photos in the middle of a sunny day, with nothing but natural light and your camera, and give you some ideas to try it too! click here to read the rest of the blog post



which way do you prefer?

i had some fun a couple of weeks ago playing around with photoshop, something i love but hadn't done in a very long time. i created both the images in this blog post from original portrait photos, finding extra sky and trees from other photos taken on the day and stitching them together. there's something slightly unusual about a photo tied together at the edges rather than simply cropping it to a square. hopefully i'll be doing a few more of these over the next few months!

i also recorded while i was editing the top picture. the original video is an hour and a half long, so i've shortened it for you to see here on my youtube channel.

hopefully you all like my newest deviation too! it took me about two hours to create. i extended the background, added all the splashes of water from about ten different images also taken on the day and played around with the colours a bit.








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on a lovelily-sunny spring afternoon, bree, jo and i went walking around the suburbs to take photos against purple houses, overgrown flowers in front yards and the big blue sky. we were kept company by house-cats, purring against bree as she perched on fences and we were invited to a stranger's home to take photos by their pool. these are our photos of our day running around on the road barefoot, stretching our limbs to warm in the sunshine.

you can see our photos from the day here!






what has everyone been up to? i haven't been active on deviantart for a very long time but i miss this place. you all helped me grow and blossom and i can never forget that <3 i'm going to try and upload regularly here again, is there anything in particular you'd like to see from me?

my blog: [link]

tumblr: [link]

twitter: [link]

facebook: [link]

flickr: [link]

free photoshop actions: [link]

formspring: [link]

portfolio: [link]




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(i just want to tell you)


'meet me in montauk'.

3.52pm, by the red phone booth. the one with the cracked window.








(more than anything)

i'm up to 394 followers on my twitter account: [link] how about number 400 gets a special photoshop colour curve that no one else will ever own?

this year i set a goal for myself to reach two hundred blog followers (www.jtrotti.blogspot.com) before my birthday and that happened just two weeks ago (which i still can't believe)! i decided than just posting up my photographs, that i want to start giving away help to fellow photographers, in the form of free photoshop colour curves, tutorials, before and afters, and publicly answering some of the common questions i get through emails (one of which i finished today).

it means the world to me the amount of support i have from all of you so i want to be as helpful as possible! let me know if there is anything you'd like to see from me, anything you want me to write about or anything you can think of at all and i will try and do it!!

for now, follow me on twitter [link] and if you are lucky number 400, i'll grab your email address and send you a curve!

also, if you haven't checked out my newest photo on here, i recently got a self timer remote for my camera and i am going to start taking more self portraits again and making manipulations like i used to because i miss it so much!


much love,

j.

just thought i'd let all you awesome followers know that i've started a new section in my blog giving away free photoshop colour curves that you can use to enhance the colour, contrast and overall tone in your images!

i'll add a new one every few days, so bookmark or follow me so you can get some colour!


here you go:
[link]



x j.

i thought it was time for a new journal, so i thought i'd recap on my first year of undertaking photography seriously. this is a blog post i wrote:

by the end of 2009, i had just settled into my new job as retoucher at blueprint studios, finished my first year of uni and had decided in my mind that i wanted to be a photographer and nothing else. when 2010started i was glued to my canon 5d mkii that i saved up all during 2009 for. i had my first proper shoot in january with a model and a makeup artist and it was the best feeling ever looking over the photos that night knowing that i created something from what was just an idea in my mind at first to real life during the shoot. in january i was also commissioned to create a series of three book covers, the last vampire by christopher pike and it was my first paid photography job that i am very happy to have done.

at the beginning of 2010 i wrote down a list of things that i wanted to do before the year ended, which just included shooting at least 10 bands and having at least 10 creative shoots with models. both of which i doubled at the very least! during the year my pictures kept appearing on book covers and album covers. i got to shoot the musicoz awards and two (of many others) bands that i love; midnight juggernauts & thirsty merc. i tried my hand at making short films and fell in love with how it works, have started playing music again and am confident in shooting with a creative team and working with models or whoever the subject i am shooting may be. i've also been introduced into the world of wedding photography which i am really enjoying bringing my style into and got to shoot my first editorial for thirst for vision magazine - something im going to be doing more of this year!

this year, i moved to wollongong which is an hour and a little bit away from dan and away from the city. which means being tired of travelling a lot every day, but im going to try and not let that get in the way of anything. im already going to shoot a wedding tomorrow, and have lots of plans to make this year amazing! i know i don't do it much at the moment, but im going to try and do "normal" blogging more often, along with some pictures, just to let you guys know what's going on!

let me know if there is something you'd like to see more of from me (: i'd be happy to hear about it!

for anyone still reading, i can't believe how far i've gotten looking back on just one year. i really couldn't have done it as well as i did without all the support i have from all you, i really appreciate every single comment and favourite i receive to this day. and i read absolutely everything you guys write, even if i don't have the time to reply to everyone individually.

anyway, im going to stop rambling because this post is long enough as it is. if you want to see my first few days of the new year in pictures, you can see them on my blog: www.jtrotti.blogspot.com and follow me as well if you have one! i post everything there first, things that i don't post anywhere else and before and afters of my photo manipulations!

where is one place you'd like to visit anywhere in the world this year?

we walk into a stranger's house and you say we should leave
but i tell you it is our house and we should stay for the
night, have breakfast in the kitchen in the morning and

pretend we need to hang the clothes to dry when they


finish in the washing.



, well, i came back down stairs and you were gone, you
left and you left running but it was beautiful like

a surgeon or a concert pianist. or someone with too much

confetti in their mouths.


i guess what im trying to say is that i don't know why, but

sometimes i catch on fire and forget to lock doors when i

leave. and by morning i'll be gone, and you'll be gone,





too.

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new work here first: www.jtrotti.blogspot.com

+ behind the scenes + my writing
+ in between photos here and there (like a threesixfive challenge, without the counting)

and follow me on twitter www.twitter.com/jtrotti (send me a link to yours as well + blog links)



j.

how many times do you think you blink in a day? (no google )


well hello there! i thought i'd update my journal just to let you guys know that im still alive and kicking - i've just been very very busy.

i've had carbonmade and viewbook have a little feud over me, and i eventually went with viewbook to host my portfolio. both of them gave me lifetime pro accounts, which was so so flattering. i never thought in a million years that would happen!

this is my viewbook website: www.jtrottiphotography.viewbook.com and soon im going to buy my own domain name and it will be www.juliatrotti.com which i am very excited about (:

the majority of my newer work im uploading on my blog www.jtrotti.blogspot.com  - im trying to do some more documentary style photography when i can, i think its beautiful capturing spontaneous moments in life, and the expressions of people when sometimes they don't even know a camera is being pointed their way.

i've also been assisting a very talented photographer here in sydney, shooting weddings and events and such. its a lot of fun and hard work and im learning so much!

in between all that im still planning my normal shoots - what i have in store next i think should come out pretty amazing (: a geisha with purple birds tangled in her hair. it should be interesting and lots of fun! im working with the talented make up artist judith joan again (the american indian shoot).

well yeah, that's pretty much it i think. oh and im also back at uni again (wasn't looking forward to it one bit) so it just makes it that much harder to juggle everything that im trying to do, but so far its working!

if you want to ask me anything, feel free to here [link] so far i've answered every single question!



by the way, my guess would be about 52 000 (because fifty two is my favourite number)

lots of love, and let me know how you are all doing!


xx julia.

i was always curious as to how the people who follow my work look/perceive themselves. link me some self portraits! (:

also i've decided to join this: [link] and see if anything interesting happens. ask me anything! something random/about work, photography, whatever.


aaaand most of my new work you can see here: www.jtrotti.blogspot.com i think its the website that i keep the most updated. i recently shot my boyfriend's band playing at the annandale hotel and i am so extremely happy with how the photos came out. i think live band photography is definitely something that i want to try and get into!

hope you are doing swell,

x julia.

i hope you all had a lovely christmas! do you have any plans for new years eve?


omg. i love my 5d so so much! its such an amazing camera, and such a big difference compared to my little old pentax. i can't wait to show you guys all the photos i've been taking. i'll be home soon (:

x
julia.