![]() ![]() I added some subtle light effects in Lightroom that seemed to hit home ☺ At the time there was very little retouching in interior design photography and most photographer were shooting on film. The hotel belonged to a hotel celebrity by the name of Philippe Vaurs. When I became 38 in 2008, I started doing interior design photography as I did a photo shoot in a hotel in Paris (in HDR) with the Seven Hotel. This was a blast and my life made sense again. I would then watch tutorials on post processing and using Photoshop, and then later on Lightroom, I was able to make the photos even more dramatic! ![]() I then started a project that went on for 5 years, taking dramatic photos of Paris after work in the most dramatic light possible. After buying a large number of really hard to understand books, I found a Photoshop book by Scott Kelby. When we came back home, I went into the biggest technical library in Paris ( Eyrolles) and looked for all the books I could find on Photography and Photoshop. Until I could figure out how to make movies, I could at least create art with photography and make my photo sublime with the help of this magical Photoshop software! That day I had a major epiphany that would change my life forever. My first Photoshop experience before and after He starts showing how to select the sky and make it super dramatic, how to erase all the tourist around a portrait we had taken together and I couldn’t believe how powerful and how ‘easy’ the software seemed to be. Kelvin was a young designer who was a master Jedi at the software. I had heard about the software but never saw it in action. One of my friends present, Kelvin Pimont asked me if I wanted to see what Photoshop could do. One night we were a little bored, nothing good on tv. I had a small Sony point and shoot camera and started for the first time in my life to shoot digital photos. I felt like I would never make it.Īs I was about to give up, I went on vacation with a whole bunch of friends in Guadeloupe. ![]() To get anything decent you had to rent very expensive cameras that did not even have nice bokeh or depth of field and did not look like cinema at all.Īll my efforts came out to nothing my shorts were horrible and not finished, and the acting classes were not doing well. ![]() Back then there was no DSLR that could shoot movies. I decided to go back to acting class and to create some short movies to tackle the world of entertainment. I was doing ok, but I started being obsessed again about working in movies. In 2004 at the age 34 years old, I had four kids to take care of and lots of financial responsibilities. I then got into sales for the travel industry, first selling sightseeing tours in Paris and later on working for my brother’s company selling websites to hotels. But sitting at a desk was not a life for me, although I loved computers. I became a father early in life, and I got a job coding. This dream kind of faded away as I grew up. Everyone at school was only talking about the movie, and I realized that a movie could have a huge impact on culture and society at large. Not so much by the quality of movie, which I loved (I went to see it three times in the theater the first week of its release), but by the impact it created around me. Ever since I was a teenager I dreamed of being an artist, an actor, a director or just being involved in making movies.Īs a teenager I remember seeing Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, and this totally changed my life. ![]()
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