FINE ART

Still Life Update

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In the closing days of April we did a great shoot with the amazing Mercybongo who we last shot in December. She is so keen we had to get her back. She cut some tulips from her garden on the day and brought them along for the shoot. They were so joyous and bright that I had to take their pictures when we got home. So as a bonus I have captured them as a Still life set as well as the standard flowers update. Mercybongos pictures are still being edited as we speak, so should be available in Mays update.


Still Life Update

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My wife has a habit of bringing home bits and bobs she finds on her journeys. They could be interesting stuff that she finds in charity shops like vases, which always come in handy or twigs with dried up leaves on them. She recently found on sale this ceramic candle holders that looked a bit like the faces from Easter Island with a view to taking there pictures. So now you know what I am doing this weekend? But last month she brought home a darkened wet twig that was all gnarled and had some ripe crimson red berries on it. You would not give it a second glance if you see it on the pavement, but Amy noticed it and we took some pictures of it. I added a frosty look in Photoshop to the three images and this is what the results look like. Thank you to Amy and enjoy this months Still Life / Fine Art?

Still Life / Fine Art Gallery – Update

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Amy often comes across random items that she thinks might be worth photographing as she goes about her day. Point in case this month was a branch from a tree complete with berries that had rotted that blew across the market place. So she picks these things up and brings them home to see what we can do. Sometimes it works, sometimes not, but here I think it did. She also came home with a bag of Oranges to eat and photograph.

So we did.

As with Brutal' architecture, if you look you can find beauty in many things. You just have to sometimes perceive things differently.

Still Life / Fine Art Gallery – Update

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A bit of a mixed bag of goodies this month. So let me start with the black and white pictures. These images were actually taken a very long time ago when I was experimenting with light and long exposures. The originals were in colour, but I felt they were a bit too bright and at the time I did not know how to get around the problem in Photoshop. So I left them … Only to find them again earlier this month and have a look gain. I cooled the brightness down and turned them black and white. Problem solved.

The second set of pictures feature a collection of nine shots of a yellow spotted vase I purchased from a charity shop for a few pennies, and liked the look of it. The spots on the vase are painted daisies and as there are no daisies this time of the year, I purchase some from Etsy.

They are fake and made of paper, but look the part and were very dainty. Great thing is I can put them away in the box and use again another day..

I hope you all enjoy this months Still Life gallery?

Still Life / Fine Art Gallery - Update

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I feel a bit of a cheat this month with the fine art pictures as they were actually taken a good seventeen years ago when I purchased the overpriced flowers from a now defunct flower shop in the city called Zinc. I was just experimenting taking fine art pictures, and after all this time I have finally found what to do with them and give them a home. I have made them look as thought they are made of latex, with the super saturated reds. Please enjoy.

Still Life / Fine Art Gallery - Update

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Something different this month for the still life / fine art. I used flash to give me a very hi-key look for these pictures and then completed the effect with photoshop. Thanks to Amy for her help amongst my many swear words and curses.

We got there in the end.

Still Life / Fine Art Gallery - Update

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Only a handful of still life / fine art this month and again with the theme of decay. I made some new backgrounds, hopefully give them a more harder edge this time around. Thanks as always to Brambles Florist and Flowers To Yours for last months (now gone over) flowers.

Still Life / Fine Art Gallery - Update

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Ending up the year with an absence of model shoots I have put more into the fine art / still life pictures. Here is a mixed bag of stuff I have done to keep you all entertained, with a strong use of decaying flowers.. Thanks to Amy for all her help this month and this year.

Still Life / Fine Art Gallery - Update

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I greatly enjoyed myself this month, managing to create some more still life ‘ fine art images in blue using dried flowers from Etsy. Notice also the more simple cyanotype images of individual flowers from Etsy and Brambles Florist. Thank you Amy for all your help x