Impressionist Photography

I have now finished a Four-Week on-line photographic course on Creative Photography, and thoroughly  enjoyed it. It was run by Doug Chinery and Velda Bailey. I have leant lots and want to learn more. We had various exercises to do each week. Here are just a few examples of images I have been very pleased with. Some are more abstract than others. The course was aimed at taking photography in a creative / abstract direction.

Garden Photography During Lockdown (May)

One of the interesting things about lockdown is the fact that I have spent more time enjoying the garden. Here are some photos from May, Animals, Birds and Flowers

Infrared Variations on an Image

I Decided to play with my infrared camera in the garden today and also to use it to create in-camera multiple exposures. I had briefly done ME's Images before with this camera but had not truly been inspired by the results. As with any ME 'project' I took quite a few different shots / experiments. Uploading into Lightroom I started processing selecting and them. I came across one image and was very pleased with the abstract feel to the result, I saved the result by creating a virtual copy and processed it a different way. After about a half an hour I found that I had produced 6 different versions of the same image (there where actually 8 but I deleted two :).

I sequenced them in a pleasing way to me and Here they are in there full glory :)

Variations on a Theme

Last Monday started an on-lin training course with Velda Bailey and Doug Chinery. I have been inspired by their creative photography for about three years. With the Coronavirus  Lockdown affecting the world they, like many companies, have looked to training online through a 'Zoom' connection. These images  have been taken this week and have been inspired by the first sessions (a Group Session and a 121 with Velda). Our assignments this week was to explore the various blend modes on the camera (Canon EOS R in my case) and look at the effects of changes from black to white. This was an extremely good exercise. I then went on following my 121 to explore the subject. Here is the result of my wonderings

It's been good fun. Lots to learn.