Still Life / Fine Art

Still Life – Chiffon and cling film

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New additions to the Still Life / Fine Art gallery are some images not centred on an object like a flower or a vase. Here Amy and I have created two different style using everyday items to give an abstract look to them. First is the orange coloured pictures of what was simply cling film covering my drink I have for breakfast that Amy makes me. The colouring is from the tungsten lighting in the room and not Photoshopped. That just as it was in the camera. The lines and patterns of of the cling film being stretched across the cup.

The second set of Still Life pictures were easily created by slowing down the shutter speed on the camera and Amy waving a few chiffon scarfs from Amazon in front of the lens. It was no more complicated than that, but I think quite effective, giving them an etherial aesthetic. Please enjoy.

*NEW* Still Life - Minimalism

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'Minimalism' is a section of photography that strips every picture down to its base component and subject matter. No clutter, no distraction for the eye that more regular images may contain. The pictures are often turned Black and White so it not only becomes stark, but makes the viewer think more about the shape and texture of the subject, not distracted by colour. So that is what I have gone for here I have done similar before but having read up on it, I wanted to dedicate a gallery on its own to it.

Still Life

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Outside my local hospital is a fruit and veg store that's there four days a week. What an inspired idea to put that where everyone can have no excuse to buy fresh healthy food? So at this store I found a fruit I had never seen before and decided to surprise Amy with it. She knew exactly what it was … Its called a Dragon fruit and has an interesting if weird look to it. So before eating Settling on these three images as the final cut for the Still Life gallery.

Still Life

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We got some still life to show you this month. Taken in the back door studio, they are a collecting of dried flowers I purchased from Amazon and used natural light to shoot them in. I placed an overlay on the images to give them a distressed look and shabby chic feel. I have chosen the best ones to display on the website, collected here for you to see. I hope you enjoy them.

Still Life Update

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This month I did manage to do some still life stuff, some of which were left over unedited from September. These are all of vegetables and past their best flowers. As always thank you to Amy for her help.

Amy's Street Photography for the 'Streets of your town' site

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Still Life Update

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This months Still Life images feature the dried up and dying stills from last months flower pictures. I like the quality and textures of decay. As much as rust can look great colour wise on an old piece of iron, so decay, like Autumn, can throw up beautiful hues.

Still Life Update

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There is a bit of a fruity feeling to this selection of Still Lifes. Amy and I set the camera up to take a snap of one of my fathers big tomatoes. Then giving it a highly saturated look in photoshop..The tomato was taken using only natural light and textured wallpaper as it backdrop.

Here also are snaps of pairs and a vine of tomatoes, once again made to look more in your face with colour and loosely inspired by Andy Warhol's pop art pictures of Marilyn Monroe and the such.

Still Life Update

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In this months Still Life there are a mixture of fruits and vegetables like sweet potatoes and cherry's with satsumas. Most of the images have a distressed overlay given to them to make the impression of an old appearance to them. There is also the Arum lily from Junes flower shoot in a vase, interesting I think because of the kink in its stem. I shall hopefully do some more this next month.

Still Life – Update

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There is a bit of a rusty feel to this months and Aprils Still life images. I purchased some rust forks and keys from Ebay to photograph. And I think they turned out okay. Amy also suggested we snap some of the old twigs we have that are now bare of fruit and leaves, but have interesting shapes. So here they are. I do hope you enjoy them ?

Still Life – Update

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We have been doing a few still life jobs this month, all in different styles of finish.

Many of them are bulbs with a lot of root search out for water and a home. Others are dried flowers and odd things like past it sell by date vegetables, gone to seed/ Fresh fruit for rotting veg as the punk band The Dead Kennedys once sang about it, but it would be nice to see one day, one of these images hanging from a gallery wall … I would be happy to make do with an outdoor privy … its a start.

Still Life – Update

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Yet again just a few still life images for this month, but something is better than nothing. I photographed some polystyrene hands using only room light which was a bit shitty really but it can give an interesting feel to the pictures if done right. So only three of them this month and very arty farty they are too!.

Still Life – Update

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Just a few still life images for this month. This was a flower given to us by Brambles Florist that had a very interesting stalk. They on there own were worth a set of pictures I thought and have turned out okay I think.

Still Life – Update

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A few still life pictures for you all. I was inspired by something I viewed on Instagram of a still life using pears. I could not stop going back to it and studying the way it looked, light, angle, grain and colour. So then I wanted to do one for myself only better if I can? Here is the result thrown in with a few Still Life Daffodils I did also, but will only use one of them in the Still Life gallery (the blurred one)y. Please enjoy.

Still life Update

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There is only one Still Life to show this month and its the rotted corpse of last months Sunflower. We often leave the flowers to go over to see if we can get something interesting in there decay, as was the case with this flower. I wish I had got to it sooner as there were more petals on it when Amy first showed it to me. My fault I left it a little too long. It smelled to high heaven as well as did the water it was in. So here it is then, the decay of the Sunflower picture, just before it went on the compost heap!

Still Life - Update

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Carrying on from last month still life subject where I captured some big red tulips from Mercybongos garden, here I captured them again when they had defiantly gone over, but look very much like a butterfly. Also during the shoot Amy suggested I shoot some of the many vases we have kicking around and then turned a sepia colour. Here are the results for this month. I will have to send Amy out again soon to look for more interesting old vases she can find in charity shops,

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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Just a little something new taken back at the very end of December in my desktop light tent. A very high key still life in blue. There was only one of it so not a huge amount of stuff to show here this month, but I am pleased with the outcome.

Still Life Update

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Here is something I have not done in a while.... Still life !

I read an article in the British Journal Of Photography magazine and admired the accompanying images of some very model take of still life. Spartan and colourful presentation in simplicity. So Amy and I set about recreating a few in our table top studio. I would not say they are good as the images in the article, but they come a close second and worth a look.

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.