Well it’s coming up to the end of the month and time to do a post, and I was looking through the Lightroom ‘Recently Modified’ collection to see what images I had been playing with. Unlike rather more organised photographers who do a shoot, go through the images and work out which ones to keep and work on, and then methodically work through them, I work on images on a seemingly random basis. There is probably a cunning plan behind which images I work on, as I have been very successful with them, unfortunately my subconscious brain has not yet told the conscious side of my brain what the plan is, so I cannot share it with you :) So here’s the images I’ve been playing with over the last week, and the whys and wherefores of how I came to work on them.
Most of my images are fairly straight, with a bit of fiddling and diddling in Lightroom and Photoshop. I know quite a few people use various packages from Nik Software and I have considered purchasing some of them for some time, but always felt they were too expensive. Now not too long ago Google purchased Nik Software, and last week they reduced the price from up to £250 per package to $149 for all 4 packages, which with one of the 15% coupon codes you can easily find brings the cost down to a rather attractive £86 or so. So I purchased it straight away, and I do hope Google’s gamble of setting reasonable prices for software pays off as at that price their is little reason to use a pirate copy.
There are quite a few filtets, so here we have the first results of ‘Creative Tim’. The first one is of Victoria Summers, and while I like the original I do feel that the filter called Monday Morning has given it the mood I really wanted to convey.
Well as that seemed to work quite well I wondered which other images I had that might suit it. In the previous image it was the browns that worked so well with the filter, so here’s a model with a lovely skin colour complementing all the earthy brickwork. Now the hair may be hiding her face, but there’s no hiding the wonderful posing ability of Raphaella.
So, bored with filters my thoughts turned to planning my trip to Scotland in September where I will be giving my print lecture to a number of prestigious Scottish camera clubs – no pressure there :-S
It won’t be all ‘work’ as the lectures are in the evening leaving me all day to shoot models! So I began looking through shoots of previous trips I have not yet got round to looking through, and found this one of the wonderful Fredau, who I hope to work with again in September.
Scotland, eh. The last time I was there I worked with the superb Madame Bink. This is an extremely rare image, as the sun is actually shining. We got to this castle and there was a couple there having a picnic, so we had to wait around 20 minutes for them to finish. Talking to them they lived in a house where they could see the castle, and they moved there 12 years ago, and had never visited the castle but decided to coincide their first visit with my trip there with Bink. We photographers have all the luck.
So after looking at that image of Bink my mind wandered to another shoot with her, and this tree trunk could have been made for her.
So there you have it, my highly organised plan for which images to work on. None of the images are completely finished, but they’re all quite interesting, and I wonder what I’ll be doing next week?
And of course, a big thank you to all the models.
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Sometimes I feel your photos would be even better if there wasn’t a naked lady necessarily stuck in them. Ye, obvioustly you do nudes, and fine nudes, but at times they seem so redundant and dissconnected. Lovely scenery, lovely model, but both together just… as if you wished they weren’t there.
Thanks for the interesting comment Pix. I don’t really take pictures of models, I take pictures that include models, sometimes they fit in with the surroundings, and sometimes they contrast with them, although I never try to make them look disconnected.
I have tried other genres, I don’t really have the time to put in that you need to get good landscapes, wildlife and sport didn’t work either, and this was a genre that I enjoyed and that I felt improved my photography.
I do appreciate all comments, as they make me think and develop my photography, and thanks for taking the time ro read my blog.
Glad it not just me that plays with random images from shoots.
A good set of images to view here Tim
The model seems to be the missing piece of the structure or object. As if the object gave birth to your character, the model. I like how M Bink’s shadow drifts to the hole in the wall. An interesting theme, Mr. Pile.
Thanks for all the comments, and Pix I really enjoyed our email conversation, I think we seem to have a lot of similar views :)