Photocamp
Reading Time: 3 minutes…and some amazing parafunctional spaces which we used for model shoots, workshops and just making pictures of what we found.
I will post some more of the specific work I produced this weekend later…
...a plethora of creative nonsense...
Still Life Photography
Often talking to fine art photography, this covers images where a scene has been set up or aranged, or chosen in macro from a larger pre-existing space, for the purpose of the photograph. Thus we must question the nature of the reality of these images, as while they show something that obviously exists in The Real it is a pure construction, perhaps representing a real or organic scene, though often not.
Photocamp 2013
Reading Time: 6 minutesIt’s been a busy weekend here. I must confess I was a little apprehensive about all this. Not really by choice, but simply because I haven’t really found many people as obsessed as I am with taking pictures , much of my photography has been …
Flower Studies
Reading Time: 4 minutesOver the year I have been exprerimenting quite a lot with flowers. I started this last year with the Tamron Macro Lens, but since Christmas I have been doing a lot of work with the Lensbaby Composer and the Macro Magnifying lenses, inspired by the …
Dark Works
Reading Time: < 1 minuteJust a quick post to show an expreiment. I read a nice tutorial ecently in Practical Photography about creating an image in the style of a Dutch Oil Painting and thoguht I would give it a go. The random skull, which I have no idea …
Plant Portraits
Reading Time: 2 minutesI have been reading somewhere (of course, in a few days I have lost the source) a little about Bonsai Portraiture – obviously something very much of a simple Japanese aesthetic. I don’t have any bonsai trees, but I thought I would grab a few …
Decay
Reading Time: < 1 minuteSome breif, boredom releiving experiments with the Lensbaby Macro Magnifiers. Just thought I would share this macro of a decayed, mummified russian dwarf hamster. You’re welcome.
Macro Study of a Christmas Cactus
Reading Time: 2 minutesTo pass the time with this cold winter weather, I have been playing with some still life ideas. For Christmas I got the macro lens adapters for my Lensbaby Composer – these are old school simple magnifying lensses that screw into the filter thread. Combined …
Freaky Macro, Prawns and Pumpkins
Reading Time: 2 minutesPart of the structure of the fish-eye lens functions as a magnifier, and along with this I have picked up some other magnifying lenses. These are a cheap and ceerful way to get macro photography effects, by acting simply like a magnifying glass in the …
