I have been working on the Blurb book I produce each year which forces me to look through images from old shoots, this year’s book has 299 images in 220 pages and I found so many great gems of images that I had almost forgotten about.
A number of these were from when I worked with Katy Cee in January of this year. For one of the sets we used a piece of perspex to do some reflection shots similar to those I did with Holly as you can see from her blog post.
The ones with Holly required a bit of fiddling around working out how to get the best reflection, but as Katy is a dancer I thought we would try some airborne shots, and as the perspex is not very large it was even trickier working out where the camera needed to be to capture both her and the reflection.
A number of people do reflection images in photoshop, but they usually look like fake computer-generated reflections, plus I am naff at Photoshop but better at working out how to produce shots in real life, and I also find it quite satisfying when something like this works.
So here’s some of the the results, and they also show how high Katy can jump, I may even have to take some of the black area between her and her reflection out for the really high ones :
I finally got around to entering one of the images from our January shoot into an exhibition, the Smethwick International which is my home club’s exhibition attracting 15,000 entries from all around the world. I blogged some of the images from a different set in a post in October. Showing the power of blog comments I actually chose the image that Holly liked best and got my title from her comment ‘Milky Way’, and I was very pleased that it won a gold medal.
Here’s the image again, with a slightly cool tone to make it appear as if she was underwater:
And I should also mention that the image “En Pointe” I produced with Kayleigh Lush and seen in this blog post has won yet another gold medal in the Life Balance exhibition, making it 4 gold medals in 3 months 8-o
So a huge thank you to Katy for producing all these wonderful images with me, to Kayleigh for producing that image that makes most people just go Wow!, and also to Holly and all the other people who leave comments on my blog, so keep em coming as I do truly value everyone’s opinion.
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These are great, Mr Tim. I’d love to see how you made them.
Congrats on the Gold!!
Congrats on the golds Tim. Great images.
Thank you Richard and UP.
These are just beyond, beyond lovely. (Save for the last one. I’ve seen the whole flour thing too many times. Not that it ever loses the appeal.)