physiotherapy was painful today. trigger point massage in my trapezius and scalene muscles. there was a massive lump in my scalene muscles, i now have what looks like a hickey from the pressure points.
cycled to work and back, as well as to the starting point of my run on the inn-promenade, in total about 15km. running went slightly better than yesterday; at least, i didn’t start to cramp up in my calves like yesterday. 3km of running in 10 batches of 1 minute running, 1 minute walking. like yesterday, it was probably at the limit of what i can manage right now.
not too sure about the back stretching exercises – i couldn’t feel any stretching at all. i’ll review them tomorrow with the physiotherapist.
i’ve decided to start a personal 365 project. for the better part of july i was on sick-leave due to a fitness related issue. more accurately a lack of fitness issue. the neurologist and the orthopedic surgeon disagreed on what it was exactly – either thoracic outlet syndrome or an irritation of the C8 nerve plexus.
regardless of what it was, i’m seriously unfit and have been for almost 10 years. so i’ve decided it’s time to sort myself out. so, this is the start of my year of getting fit. i’ve set myself the following personal goals, which i think i can achieve by the end of this 365 project:
i was playing around with some lighting setups and eva got to model again. i was trying to recreate the sort of look that zack arias wrote about in this tutorial: White Seamless Tutorial.
i basically just put a flash behind eva, blasting at the white wall and a flash in a reflective umbrella in front. so not quite zack’s setup, but the closest i could approximate in our living room. i didn’t quite get the lighting ratios right, so i had to add a touch of fill slider in lightroom, next time i’ll know better… but see for yourself:
Eva on white
as you can see on some pics, i had banding/sync issues with the cactus triggers. i’m going to have to see if that can be corrected.
great piece of work by both the diver and the cameraperson.
but see for yourself: