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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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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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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.


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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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.

Still Life / Fine Art Gallery - Update

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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.

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

*NEW* Still Life / Fine Art Gallery

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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.

Try something New .... Fine Art Fruits

Thanks to the help of my wife we set up the small studio space we have in the house that we normally do flowers in and photographed some fruit she purchased from the market. Pears, Apples, plums and blueberries were on the menu and I think for the most part it worked. All images were taken using a Lensbaby Velvet 56 lens.