textured with Kim Klassen’s chill and friday2014 for Testure Tuesday
Pears and a Bowl
Today I’m posting the pear still life photos I did for the latest BeStill 52 lesson. They were especially fun to do, because, with the help of my husband, I have been setting up a little mini “studio”(also known as a craft table) in our garage for still life and macro photography. With the garage door open, I have beautiful natural light (unlike in the rest of our house). When it gets too cold or when it is lizard, snake, and bunny season, the garage door will be down and I will use artificial light. Right now I have a pole lamp; we’ll see how that works out. I do have a speed light too and reflectors of course. I was inspired by Carol Hart’s post (on openhart.com) about using her greenhouse and her video of working in her home studio.
So here they are (the top one was textured with Kim Klassen’s painterly texture for Texture Tuesday):
Apples on a Tea Towel
After doing travel photography for a couple weeks, it feels great to get back into still life photography! I’m catching up on lessons for Be Still 52 (and Texture Tuesday), and today’s photo is for the most recent assignment, where we were challenged to take a photo based on a painting. It was helpful to be provided with a link to a Pinterest board of stilllife paintings, and I chose one of three lemons on a striped tea towel.
I am currently lemon-less, so used apples from my friend, Debbie, who had to rid her kitchen of perishables in preparation for traveling to Nashville. I do have some wonderful new tea towels, however- a gift from my daughter!
My image has darker lighting than the painting from which I drew my inspiration, but is lit from the left, as was the original image. I textured it with Kim Klassen’s monday and chill textures.
Covered Bridge
Another photo from our weekend in Vail- textured with Kim Klassen’s kk_chill for Texture Tuesday.
Road Trippin’
Texas scenes shot from the car window with my iPhone.
Edited in the phone with the Snapseed app and textured with Kim Klassen’s kk_chill for Texture Tuesday. Snapseed’s HDR filter was used on the truck photo.
Officers’ Row
On our visits to Mammoth Hot Springs at Yellowstone, I’m always captivated by the architecture of the buildings on Officers’ Row, especially the roofs. Here are a few photos I managed to take on this last visit.
All were edited with Kim Klassen’s kk_chill texture; the top photo also has a layer of kk_forreal.
Linking up with Friday Finds.
In the window. . .
Textures: kk_chill and kk_linda
Linking up with Texture Tuesday.
Leftovers
Here are some leftover photos from last week’s shoot with my macro lens. Happy Wednesday!
Words to live by. . .
Textures:
kk_chill
kk_Aulneau
Have a Heart!
The soundtrack for this blog post is Bonnie Raitt’s Have a Heart (can’t get it out of my head- and I love her!).
Did you see the heart?
Linking up with Friday Finds today.
And for your listening pleasure. . .
This version is less up-tempo than the the one in my head- but it’s Bonnie! And any song that begins with “Hey, shut up!” certainly gets my attention!
Fall COLOR
It is FALL, but still no beautiful fall leaves. So here is some Fall COLOR for you. . .
Dark Side of the Moon
No, it’s not the moon- just lens flare- but I love the effect.
kk_chill texture added
Linking up with Texture Tuesday today.
Solo Flower
Still summer
Knowing the time for flowers is limited as the days grow shorter and autumn approaches, I picked a bloom from the bed out front and took a few photos.
Both of these images have a layer of Kim Klassen’s chill texture. The bottom one had the paint daubs filter applied (twice!) before adding the texture.
Books and a Cup
It was a stormy monsoon of a day- a good day to practice my still-life skills. I’d been feeling the urge to photograph old books again, so went to the bookshelves and pulled down four of my mother’s books (which I treasure) and my childhood thesaurus (the torn and tattered one). I added my cup of coffee to the scene and went to work. Afterward, I edited them with a matte curve in most and adjustments in white balance and/or split-toning to get the tones I was trying to create in the image.
I took two of the images (the first and fourth) into Photoshop and added textures- Kim Klassen’s yesteryear and sweettart.
Linking up with Texture Tuesday today.
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