Still Life / Fine Art
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.
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!.
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.
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.
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!
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
Just one this month with a cyanotype picture of some flowers in my parents house against the wall. Can you tell if they are real or fake?
Only two pictures for this month and they were taken in my kitchen using a Halo Lamp I purchased from Amazon in one case to produce the intense red colour. The flower is a tulip Amy had grown in the garden and had well past its sell by date, but still looked photogenic.
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.
This month we managed to do some more Fine Art trying bits and bobs out from rotting leaves and bondaged Sunflowers to Apples, string and plastic flowers. Thanks to Amy for her patience and much needed help with the picture creations and to everyone at Brambles Florist for their plants.
Something different for this months Still Life / Fine Art gallery with beauty in decay being the theme. We photographed these gone over flowers that we had in various vases during the golden hour, I think it worked? Most are in black and white, but a couple in colour. Thanks then to Amy for getting up that hour with me and all her support.
So this month i thought I would start a Still Life / Fine Art gallery all of its own. Putting into it some images that did not look right or belong in the digital art gallery. I started with taking some pictures of dry flowers my wife collected and placed in vases we have. I then digitally cyanotoped them (like in the good old days when we used dark rooms and chemicals!) I like the results, so a big thanks to Amy here. There are also some pictures of hands (again Amy’s) holding cotton in a pictures called ‘Hands that sew’ There is another image where those same hands hold a pair of chopsticks and a moth is resting close by. The images are both a bit blurred as they were taken using a Lensbaby Velvet 56 Lens.
