In the studio – Dark & moody Raspberries

I adore raspberries, they look as good as they taste, perfect for cooking, snacking and smoothies…who am I kidding I eat them straight out of the punnet lol. I did manage to squeeze in a quick shoot, but they were all gone. I have just discovered HOW good they taste with passionfruit too! plain yoghurt…

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Light Painting – Grapes and scales

I am going to feature some new Light Painting images I have created lately. I recently ran a workshop and taught this technique and managed to capture a few images before and after the workshop. I really like the grapes, the colour the texture, so I managed to capture a few different images with them,…

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Light Painting – Scales and Tangelos

Last Light Painting image for a little bit, I have bought some new items to photograph, but just have not had the time to relax and spend some time playing in the studio as I would like. These last few were quickies (all less than 30 seconds) and taken to double-check setups for a workshop.…

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Light Painting – Figs

I love being about to mix my love of food photography and light painting, these figs and my wooden corbel at just so beautifully matched, along with my favourite Tyvek backdrop and my chippy timber table. I have been getting a LOT of lovely comments on social media…I adore it when things just WORK! Figs…

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Floating Fruit Workshop

My CPV Photography group holds lots of workshops, I am sometimes the teacher, some times the student…this day I was the student. Now the premise of floating fruit is actually quite easy, the actual act of creation is harder than it looks. These are the finished images We used black and white acrylic but decided…

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Mondays Musings…

Another busy weekend, Hubby and I took the camera in to get the sensors cleaned before our next trip away, while we were waiting we went and saw the new Lion King movie; loved it. Fabulous and the detail was amazing. If you have not seen it yet, do. Ignore the critics who usually can’t…

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Pinnochio’s Apple

I recently purchased this wooden modelling arm, I think it is aimed at people who paint or draw still life, but I decided to use it to create still life. I really wanted to create a series, of this hand holding everyday objects, like this apple. It is a piece of light painting, but it…

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Capturing the details

I recently had my friend Lisa come over to play and experiment in the studio, always a fun day, some days we have no idea of what we are doing and other days it is totally planned out. This day was planned, we had previously tried to shoot some flowers on a homemade lightbox, which…

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Regular Random – cherries on a plate

I recently did a quick mini photoshoot, normally I work my way through an image and only show the end result, but this day I decided to show from the initial photo, through the end and final three photos. The plate and the main cherries did not move, just me the camera, the linen, the…

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Share your world – 9th July 2019

QUESTIONS:   Now I realize that everyone doing SYW doesn’t live on this side of the world and on the other side of the world it’s now winter.   So substitute, if you’d like and if it’s more appropriate, “winter” for summer and answer the questions that way.    Yes here in Australia, it is Winter, I…

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