These dolls look quite happy watching a Taylor Swift youtube video on their Ipad, They’re not creepy at all. Well they’re not really real are they? Does anyone find this image creepy? and why?
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Moving on, things were getting a bit dark.
The previous picture was personal to me. I explained a little of it’s content. I’d like to photograph the interior of a hoarders house where each object is steeped in a memory that the hoarder can not let go of. My picture was my set of objects steeped in memories too. Each viewer has their own interpretation of it. My image might make me cry if I looked at it long enough. Lets lighten up a bit.
The room looks like this now.
My cameras light meter would have me lower the shutter speed by about 3 stops. But then it wouldn’t look like this would it? It’s 9 o’clock, I’m waiting for it to get dark. The dolls have come back. I have, in the back of my mind memories of very strange images containing dolls. But I’d like to get some dolls and make us see the brighter side of their lives. While I’m waiting have look at this.
This is done in a similar way to the other images of where I work with each layer being lightened and manipulated in lightroom. There is a floor and a roof.Everything is there, but in a different order. It is almost like seeing the whole 360 degrees of the space at once. I have always been interested in geometry, planes and space. I like a mass of detail too.
This is from a book called The British Isles, by Colour Library Books Ltd. I think it’s a book club book or something. There are no photographer credits and no information about where 90% of the pictures are taken.
I love the feeling of space in this and the almost overpowering amount of detail. I would love to go and take this picture, if I knew where it was…. My daughter just told me it’s Notre Dame in Paris.
Back to the room, it must be pretty dark in there by now!
Yep, it’s dark! 11.00pm. Lets arrange the lighting.
That led torch is far too bright, lets get another angle on this too.
You can see what this is now, a girls night in for dolls. Glass of wine, a few nibbles, good film, and no blokes! I think the last image is getting closer to what I had in mind. The inspiration for this is the Gogglebox TV show. Helen and I love it! This show is part of my cultural heritage. Viewers are filmed whilst they watch TV.
This is the first lighting setup. An Led torch with an aluminium reflector to replicate the light coming from a TV.
I found this to be too harsh and cold a light source so I removed the reflector.
Which softened the light and the shadows, also it warmed the light by reflecting of the red off the plastic TV. Lets take a look at the last image.
Hand held at 1/10th of a second! Not bad for an old guy eh! The composition isn’t right, the doll that’s laying down on the right should be upright. I could take this into lightroom and sort it out.
This is the effect I have in mind. I like the different colours reflecting of the TV screen. It’s not all in focus though. I’ve used a graduated filter to to brighten up the dolls face on the left, and another to bring out the face of the doll at the back. The crop just tightens the image up a bit. Maybe rotate the TV to the left slightly.
I’ve tried a bit of rudimentary light painting here, using the implements you see in image 24. (click on the image to enlarge it)
One of the masters of this technique is Harold Ross… https://haroldrossfineart.wordpress.com/
Light painted photogaph of the Biltmore House
To put it very crudely he waves torches and hand held lights around his objects doing bits at a time, then adding the different layers together in photoshop creates this type of strangely beautiful image. To be honest, I find his work sterile, devoid of life. Technically stupendous though! You can’t find out that much about how he does it. He earns his keep with his workshops.
So to my meagre attempts…. These done with the large LED light in (second contact sheet no24) I wafted the light all over the dolls, not much shadow behind the dolls. This is a bit flat.
You can see the brush strokes here. This with the large maglite. I like the colour here and composition.
This with the very small LED light for 30 secs.
To continue….
Memorabilia and Debris
I’m going to construct an image with all of the stuff I’m going to throw away. Starting with these books, most of which I read but never understood. First into the empty space then.
Dolls and humour
My caption would be.. I did say she wasn’t your type Spidey!
one in colour.
Continuing with….
I’m only using Lightroom to create the jpegs from the nef raw files I’ve used in this image. This is eight shots taken one after the other at a street corner in Northampton. The darken layer mode was applied to all the levels then the image was flattened. I used image/adjustments/black&white to convert to bnw. If you use the colour sliders in the conversion you can make things appear or disappear. I used curves to make it a bit more contrasty. My tutor suggested I try this effect in other places and I do like this. I must look a bit crazy when I stand there taking pictures like this. I do it for my art 🙂
This is in In Abington Park Northampton. the foreground was a bit boring so I played with the yellow slider during the conversion to create the dark patches on the ground.
Art Day 5 again
I’m not too sure about the image with 5 people in it. This is taken with A Nikon D750 with a 28mm lens. So it’s a bit tighter than the G16. I like that you see so much detail but you don’t see all of anything.
Art day4
When I converted this to black and white in photoshop I played with the colour sliders to lighten areas of the picture.
Then Dave and Sanjay turned up. They’ve not seen this yet.
They work in this strange place too! Last day tomorrow. I see a some people liking what they see, and a couple following. Thanks for that. If anyone wants to comment please do. These are all taken with my Canon powershot G16. Going to do this with the D750 tomorrow.
Art day 3
This is the same again, straightened and sized in lightroom. Assembled in photoshop. Played with the curves and sharpened a bit.
The current set of images. You can see slight variations in the lighting.
Colour too. Not sure which I prefer .
Art, day 2
This image is made in the same way as the previous one, except this is done today, tuesday. I took these images from the same spot and in the same order.
This is another way to show the passing of time. there are differences in the days. It’s a bit like the film Groundhog day. You do the same thing over and over and suddenly you get it right one day. I’m doing this till Friday, to see what it all looks like.
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