Impression of a Bluebell Wood

Impression of a Bluebell Wood

The weather stopped us getting to the bluebell woods last week and we knew it was getting late for them but we decided to go over the Lady's Wood Nature Reserve and see what they were like.

The bluebells had certainly 'gone over' but there was an impression of a blue carpet. I decided rather than take straight photos of the bluebells I would try some ICM techniques I had been thinking about.  I have been reading a book by Freeman Patterson and Andre Gallant called 'Photo Impressionism and the Subjective Image' dating from 2001. 

They where using film cameras and building up multiple exposure similar to the 'Additive' mode on my Canon. They were shooting blind and working out the exposure compensation needed. They built up the ICM effects by taking the same camera position / movement for a few images and then adding another effect.

Certainly building on the knowledge I gained from Doug Chinnery and Velda Bailey on their courses last year.

The saying 'Every day in every way I get a little bit better' comes to mind.

Vase and Dying Flower Study

Spent a couple of hours just playing with a vase of dying flowers the other day and then taking just one design into photoshop to see what different colour combinations I could get. I was looking for the resulting image to be fundamentally based on  two main colours. I found four I like and ten popped them into a panel. The first five images here are the result. Not what you would call subtle colours. 

I then started playing with some of the other images from the session with some pleasing results. 

It’s funny how sometimes you set yourself a mini project in a single session and struggle to find an acceptable result and then other times, like this you find quite a few.

All images here started as in-camera multiple exposure (mostly in dark mode if I remember right) and then  work in Lightroom. All images then developed in multiple layers in Photoshop, including the blending of two or more images.

 

Galic

Decided to play with the Lensbaby on a tabletop exercise with some garlic.

 

Orchard Walk

Orchard Walk

Sue and I took a wander over the apple orchard at the edge of our village. The weather forecast said the day might be sunny, rainy and possible thunderstorms, but we both felt like a walk anyway. 

These photos was taken with the Olympus OMD em10mkii with my Lensbaby with sweet 50 optic fitted. 

I am really enjoying the creativity of this lens, moving the sweet spot around the frame is an interesting experience and I have not fully mastered this yet. 

As we left the orchard it indeed did start to rain and just as we arrived back home we had some thunder