In the studio – Dried flowers

This time I removed the light tent from the equation and played with bouncing the Speedlight off the white ceiling, to give a lovely dark and moody look to it. Dried leucodendron and hydrangea. Just because it can be brightly lit, doesn’t mean it has to be…lol ~ Julz

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In the studio – Iced Tea

As I stated in my last post I bought myself a few new toys for Christmas and I have been playing with them in the studio…here is some iced tea. My daughter got me the wooden board for Christmas too. ~ Julz

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In the studio with new toys

So I bought myself a few new toys for Christmas and why not, I think I have earned them. Some I am still waiting on (My new studio strobes), but I also picked up a new Speedlight (Godox AD200Pro) and a light tent. So over the break I have been getting acquainted with them. These…

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Looking at light

Just a quick one for today, grabbed Woodrow (my vintage wood duck) and some fresh hellebore from the garden. I was playing with some lovely morning light.in the studio. I hope you are having a wonderful week… ~ Julz

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In the studio – Pink Lady apple

I have been super busy, in the studio this week, putting together some more lessons and preparing for a few presentations. One of the things I was working with was compositional styles and was keeping things rather simple with a single apple, I was rather pleased with how this one turned out. So simple, yet…

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In the studio – playing with minimalism part two

I recently did a post with these same lilies on a black background and they are quite stark and minimal and beautiful. They were a joy to capture in the studio. But I wasn’t quite finished. I have been getting some beautiful Winter sunlight in the mornings, so I placed my lilies in a glass…

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In the studio – playing with minimalism part one

In my back garden I have a frog pond, sadly there are currently no frogs, we did once have frogs, but a sad mishap one hot Summer while we were on holidays meant we lost our tadpoles and the parent frogs moved (or maybe died) to more suited surrounding. We have fixed the frog pond,…

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In the studio – with my gerbera, again

I still have a couple of images of my beautiful orange gerbera to show you. I shot it over several days, sadly it is now looking a little worse for wear. But I really liked this one the all white image with a pop of orange in the flowers. I might need to buy myself…

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In the studio – The Red Queen

Again with Bec from Verdessa Fairy in the studio, this time as a very impressive, dramatic Red Queen in my famous (or is that infamous) red dress. This dress has been featured in so many different studio shoots. Seriously don’t mess with this Queen she is all steel-hearted! But Bec truly is a sweetheart, she…

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In the studio – Forest Magic

A little while ago I had Bec from Verdessa Fairy come in to the studio for a product session with some of her magical creations. This time she had decided she wanted me to create some Photoshop magic for her, in particular with a red ballgown in the studio wardrobe and I will show them…

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