Showing posts with label In the Round. Show all posts
Showing posts with label In the Round. Show all posts

Friday, 27 March 2020

Tabletop Photography

About three years ago I set a workspace up in the Garage Workshop to do some Tabletop Photography. With the business of life this are has not been used as much as I had hoped. The area has had a secondary function of where I mount my prints. So being 'self-confining' I decided to have a go at some images with 'Jean-Luc Picard' jumping into some water. Before I started and before Sue throw some flowers away I decided to also do some in-camera multiple exposures 'in the round'

Included in the Flower multiple exposure was a porcelain figurine called Susan. 9 images taken and the vase rotated slightly each time. I used all three in camera blend modes (Average, Dark and Bright) to achieve three different results.  Post processing in Lightroom. I then took 'Susan' into the Garage Workshop and sat her on a spinning table. Lit by flash off to the side. As an aside, I don’t buy many ornaments, the last time was about 30 years ago and was a red glass fox from Langham Glass. We were in Cromer just before Christmas and walked past this art shop and went in. I was immediately attracted by this figurine and having purchased it found the name of the piece was Susan.

Sue had found me some skeleton leaves in the pond - with these I laid them initially on a lights lit from below. and then used my 'Atdaptorlux Lights' with red and green filters, spraying them with water.

Jean-Luc Picard proved to be more challenging. I was relying on dropping the figure head first into a small tank and triggering the camera manually. (Note to self - I need a Pluto Trigger or something) I must have taken just less than 100 snaps to get something that I was happy with.

Good Fun.

Susan and the Flowers




Susan In the Round




Skeleton Leaves









Jean-Luc Picard Taks a Dive




Thursday, 25 July 2019

Swings Multiple Exposure

A couple of Wednesdays ago I was left in charge of Beanie for the day. After taking Aiden to school we decided to go to the play park.

I did not have any intension of taking photos and I only had my Sony RX100 mkiv with me. While she enjoyed the rides (the girl has no-fear) I though I might do a bit of high speed capture with the intension of blending the images together in Photoshop (a bit like the 'in the round' images I have been playing with)

The RX100 has quite a fast motor drive and I was surprised how may shots came from each short exposure.

In Photoshop I played with different Smart Object Stack Modes and different blending modes. Fascinating subject.















Thursday, 23 May 2019

Multiple Exposure - In camera (mostly)

With the exception of the first two photos these images where created as in camera multiple exposures.

The first two images are 'in-the-round' photos (aka Pep Ventosa)

The rest are in-camera multiple exposures. The beauty of the Canon system is that you can save the individual files as well as the in camera composite. This means that your creative concept can be worked on while you are out and IF it does not blend together nicely (personal taste) then you get a second crack at it. There are a couple here where I felt they needed a different result and these where processed in Photoshop.

In the Round

In the Round


In Camera Multiple Exposure

Photoshop File

In Camera Multiple Exposure

Photoshop File

In Camera Multiple Exposure

In Camera Multiple Exposure

In Camera Multiple Exposure





Here we go Again

Here we go again It’s been a long time since we have done a jigsaw, probably just after two Christmases ago (ie Jan 2025). I decided to get ...