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(Jan 5, 2014, 06:32)Ferenc Wrote: [ -> ]This is my third image and in this shot I lit the subject using natural window light and a number of large reflectors to pour light into the shadows on the right hand side of the image

Ferenc
like these very much , the fruit and cheese make my mouth water well done.
Jon

This might comply with requirements?

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Or how about this?

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Or maybe this?

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How about this? Growing in the garden, so it's alive, but there is no wind after the rain so it is stationary or not moving, thus 'still'. = Still Life Taken through a double glazed sun lounge window.

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Ferenc
like these very much , the fruit and cheese make my mouth water well done.
Jon

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Thanks for your kind words Jon. I've decided to work on a number of projects this year to improve my skills. One is following the inspiration of dutch masters and their still life oil paintings. I'll post them as i progress.

Regards

F

A facsimile of life (Glass Dolphin) which isn't moving = Still life?

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Out for a walk at -25C the other day with low winter sun coming through fence slats and knot holes with the snow (like water) picking up the blue sky and the blue scatter.

I was teaching a friend how to paint with light when I shot this one. I like the contrast between the shadows and lighting.

Amaryllis, hope I have spelled correctly. Off the cuff, sitting in kitchen, full Auto, Flash on, shows, Zoom at 100mm, only took this one. Ed.

Piece of green sea glass filters out the red light in its shadow.

WD,

Smashing shot, sort of a mix between 'still life' and 'abstract'.

Now then, I'm being inquisitive, did you spot this on a beach or did you set it up? The reason I ask is that the 'sand' could easily be 'granulated Brown Sugar'. If you did set it up, you did a jolly good job of it.

Regards.

Phil.

A Birds Eye View

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Straighten the building, and put a bit more bite in it? Ed.

(Jan 11, 2014, 08:36)Phil J Wrote: [ -> ]WD,

Smashing shot, sort of a mix between 'still life' and 'abstract'.

Now then, I'm being inquisitive, did you spot this on a beach or did you set it up? The reason I ask is that the 'sand' could easily be 'granulated Brown Sugar'. If you did set it up, you did a jolly good job of it.

Regards.

Phil.

PhilJ:

Thanks for the "smashing". No set up. Taken with a pretty low sun full of red rays on a sandy beach at the south end of Lake Huron. Probably a remnant of the days when fishermen just threw their beer bottles (green and amber were common) overboard and the waves broke them up into sea glass. Blue sea glass is the rarest find on these beaches.

(Jan 9, 2014, 15:34)Clicker2014 Wrote: [ -> ]I was teaching a friend how to paint with light when I shot this one. I like the contrast between the shadows and lighting.

Hi,
I think this is a really beautiful image. I've been working on a number of painting with light projects through the autumn but on a larger scale, outdoors. From the temperature of the light, I assume you used an LED torch to paint the light onto the subject. Its been done well and for me, it conjours up an image of moonlight shining through a window and illuminating some, but not all of the fruit.

Well done, you've done an excellent job

Regards

F

(Jan 11, 2014, 08:14)WDHewson Wrote: [ -> ]Piece of green sea glass filters out the red light in its shadow.

I like this image. Well done for spotting it on the beach. The composition is good, placing the glass on an intersection thirds line. The bare, untouched sand adds to the simplicity of the image and, in my opinion brings strength to it.


Well Done

Regards

F

(Jan 11, 2014, 08:38)wiseowl Wrote: [ -> ]A Birds Eye View

Hello Wise Owl,
I can see what you were trying to achieve in this image; creating a frame within a frame. Its a great technique for focusing attention on the subject of the image.. Where this image can be improved is in the exposure. cameras are not as clever as the human eye and what has happened here is that the camera has set the exposure for the town wall, not the church behind. As the wall was darker, or in shadow, the exposure has been incorrectly calculated by the camera creating an over exposure for the church. You'll notice that the sky has disappeared completely because it's burned out after too long an exposure. the colours are also muted and a little washed out.

If you get the opportunity to revisit the site try it again, only exposing for what you see through the window hole.

I hope this might help you.

regards

F

This is water droplets on a C/D. It took me a while to be able to get a good focus on the droplets. But I had a good time learning.

Sharon,

That is very inventive. It takes me back to some of the lighting effects which used to be used in nightclubs when I was young!! Yes there was a time when I was young, seems like about a million years ago.

Regards.

Phil.

(Jan 11, 2014, 16:22)Ferenc Wrote: [ -> ]

(Jan 9, 2014, 15:34)Clicker2014 Wrote: [ -> ]I was teaching a friend how to paint with light when I shot this one. I like the contrast between the shadows and lighting.

Hi,
I think this is a really beautiful image. I've been working on a number of painting with light projects through the autumn but on a larger scale, outdoors. From the temperature of the light, I assume you used an LED torch to paint the light onto the subject. Its been done well and for me, it conjours up an image of moonlight shining through a window and illuminating some, but not all of the fruit.

Well done, you've done an excellent job

Regards

F

I enjoy this type of photography. I learned outside too. This was actually outside in a garden. We had tried several different items. And yes an LED light. I use them as they are a white light. Thank you kindly for commenting! Very much appreciated! Sharon

(Jan 11, 2014, 18:25)Phil J Wrote: [ -> ]Sharon,

That is very inventive. It takes me back to some of the lighting effects which used to be used in nightclubs when I was young!! Yes there was a time when I was young, seems like about a million years ago.

Regards.

Phil.

Thanks Phil. I know exactly what you mean! Thanks for commenting!
Sharon

(Jan 8, 2014, 20:10)Phil J Wrote: [ -> ]A facsimile of life (Glass Dolphin) which isn't moving = Still life?

like this shot a lot like the light . christinehttp://www.shuttertalk.com/forums/images/icons/smile.gif

Christinecilia, #46.

Thank you for your generous comments. The light was achieved through use of an optically triggered Nissin 340T (about 30 years old) on half power, shot through a newly laundered gentelmans linen handkerchief which was approx 4 feet off to camera right and about 18 inches forward of the cameras position. The flash unit was a further 9 or so inches away from the handkerchief.

Best regards.

Phil.

Bird of Paradise take at Longwood Gardens on a recent trip.

Orca, #48

That's just beautiful. Well done.

Regards.

Phil.

(Jan 16, 2014, 17:23)Phil J Wrote: [ -> ]Orca, #48

That's just beautiful. Well done.

Regards.

Phil.

Thanks for the compliment. Still learning about photography.
Ron