Experimental Photography Workshop

Experimental Photography Workshop

Today I helped Ann run an Experimental Photography Workshop for members of the Cambridge Camera Club over at Toft Peoples Hall in Toft. We had a full house of 15 people, including Ann and myself.

We covered Cyanotypes (Ann) Legacy Lenses, Lensbabies, Use of polarising film to get a black background and creative Flower Photography. Ann supplied some lovely yellow and black caterpillars plus some other insects and loads of flowers, as did the participants. 

A great time was had by all. 

The first image was my daily photo journal. The next few where from the kitchen area where Ann was creating cyanotypes. The hall where a lot of fun was had.

Lunch time Sue and I with Ann and Mike had out lunch outside on the new picnic benches. I was attracted by the orange brollies, blue sky and yellow bunting.

End of the day teabags and lonely tripods.

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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

Two Lips

Just playing with a vase of tulips on our kitchen table.