Well it appears that the more photographs I take, the less that I post on my blog. I’ve been pestered by a number of fellow photographers to post more of my work. The problem is that I often take a long time between doing a shoot to finishing any images from it, so I have decided to post more ‘in progress’ images, which have generally just been played around with in Lightroom.
I will also post more galleries on my website which is pathetically short of images giving the number of photographs I take. I have also just changed all of the galleries on my website to be compatible with iPhones and iPads (converted them from Flash to HTML for the techies out there).
On my recent trip to Scotland I was lucky enough to shoot with Katie Derry, who I first shot in January in a studio. She is a dancer as well as a model and she kindly came up to Scotland to shoot with me and some fellow photographers.
One the one day we went to the beach, and here are a few images from that day, starting with a shot shooting into the lovely sunny sky we had that day. A fellow photographer has pointed out that the model is quite small in some of these images, this is true on a computer screen, but when printed out out at A3 they will be a larger size, also even though she is quite small in the image the eeye is instantly drawn to her.
Now a couple of Katie making lovely shapes next to a big twig we found on the beach. If the shot is going to be colour then I think the ‘real’ colours just don’t look right and an olde worlde look goes better.
For a mono version I’m currently thinking along the lines of a tone with a colour approaching that of sand, as for tone making it quite dark really makes Katie stand out.
From weird colours to very strong colours and Katie making lovely shapes with some fabric wings. I feel that it is the shadow that makes this image, especially as it picks up the tint from the wings.
And finally one with one of the corny props I always carry in the boot of my car. Katie was asked to do a Mary Poppins jump with the umbrella, which she did very well. In the original the colours were very strong and saturated, and just pulling down the global saturation did not work. So I randomly clicked on Lightroom Presets and hit on one called Red Light District, which reduced the saturation of every colour except red to 0% and increased red to 100%. That made her stand out as the rest of the image went mono, then by slowly pulling back the saturations of the other colours I got the more subdues colour effect I wanted.
Thanks very much to Katie for a super day, and I must get round to working on those studio shots from January :)
2 Comments
Great work as always, Tim.
I particularly LOVE the one of Katie with the tree. Love, love, love… Love, love, Love! Seriously, love that shot.
I’m not sure which crop or version I prefer – colour or sepia. I think I may be verging towards the colour version, with the sepia crop. (Just to be awkward). But it’s such a great shot it would work in any format.
I agree with your fellow photographers, though. Post more work! Even your unfinished work is always of such a high standard. :-)
Where did she land?