Hydrangeas Part 2

Continuing on with my stunning hydrangeas, I did some dark and moody and some a little more soft and dreamy. Natural light was weak but available, I had a few short minutes of the occasional burst of sunlight, that I tried to take advantage of, but mostly I had to use a reflector to bounce…

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Dark Hydrangeas

I have been trying to get into the studio more and more, build up my strength in my shoulder and arm, it’s sad when you can’t hold your own camera, but baby steps right? So on the tripod and captured these beautiful hydrangeas. I shoot dried all the time, but was so nice to get…

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Regular Random – playing with fractals

I write a little while ago about how I played with some fractal prism filters at the Melbourne butterfly house, how I loved them so much I bought my own set. Between stuff and life and being sick, I had not had a chance to play with them until now. So I spent a simple…

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Light Painting – Hydrangea

I finally had some free time to myself in the studio and decided that I really wanted to play with some Light Painting, Light Sculpting, whatever you would like to call it. Essentially it involves me sitting in a dark studio and over the period of a minute or two, lighting my subject with a…

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Friday Flowers – Hydrangea

As a child, the house I grew up in had Hydrangea and Geranium bushes planted all along the drive and near the front door. Whenever I see either of these plants it reminds me of childhood days. I do not have hydrangeas planted in my current garden, as they just don’t suit, but I do…

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Fridays Flowers

Sadly no fresh flowers, I would have bought some, but this shoot was on the fly, while waiting for a client and I had to use my collection of dried flowers, still so pretty. I had this lovely new backdrop I had not had a chance to play with as yet, it’s part of a…

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Regular Random – Dried Hyrangeas

I ‘borrowed’ some hydrangea blossoms on a recent outing and they have been patiently waiting and drying in the studio, two of the three, was not brilliant, but one little head had dried nicely. This was the subject of my 5 minutes for Regular Random. Using late afternoon natural side light, shot with my Sony…

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