If It's Tuesday, It Must Be John Catchings

The day started with breakfast at Kerner Optical. Only around the corner from us. I was keen to go. It used to be George Lucas' model shop and practical effects place.

I expected 20 or 30 others but there must have been 150-200. So sorry I didn't take a camera.

The pancakes were good. The coffee was awful. Gee if I had all those toys, I would have put on a better show for my guests (and better coffee too).

Their Web site is very disappointing with little photos in a naf Flash container. Here's one I managed to steal. To be honest, there didn't look as though much was happening. Nothing at all being built in their three or four large workshops. Nothing. I got bad vibes; having run a facility company in London, I know empty when I see it.

The sites I made for T's cushions and duvet covers look better than Kerner's.

Drove back here to meet John at 10:00, but he was 30 minutes late. Sigh. An edit for the National Kidney Foundation.

He'd found a cameraman in Las Vegas to do the shoot. I don't know why as there are some good people out there - but we got back a typical poorly lit, badly framed job.

Here's before (left) and after (right) I had repositioned the subject, added sharpness, fixed the shadow/highlight ratio and finally color corrected it. Click to enlarge.

More sighs. Next time, I will insist on shooting the interview myself. It's not hard to light a face. And a good makeup artist would have helped.