Jean Gran
Forged in Fire
This fragile white Dahlia blossom is literally composed of atoms forged in the burning hearts of red giant stars that exploded billions of years ago. What a journey. When I converted the image to black and white and inverted the tone curve I released some of that ancient fire.
Subject: Garden Dahlia (Dahlia pinnata)
How did I create this image? I took a series of images at f8 with successively deeper focal planes using a Nikkor 105 mm macro lens on a Nikon Z7 camera body. The multiple images were then complied into one image which is sharp from front to back using Zerene Stacker. I edited the RAW file in Lightroom to bring my vision to life. Each image is a marriage of technology and art. Enjoy!
Artist Statement: The exquisite beauty of flowers is both fragile and fleeting. And yet, flowers so often bear witness to the eternal truths of our lives: love and loss; birth and death; joy and grief; triumph and failure. My goal is to capture not only the ephemeral beauty of the flowers I photograph, but to create images with the capacity to evoke our enduring emotions, dreams, and deeper truths. Enjoy!
FORGED IN FIRE 24x16 200 ppi__2021-09-13-12.08.36 ZS DMap,ER=10,SR=5,CTPCT=85.6,CTLEV=2.6724843E-4-Edit-2-Edit-7-6.jpg
Forged in Fire
This fragile white Dahlia blossom is literally composed of atoms forged in the burning hearts of red giant stars that exploded billions of years ago. What a journey. When I converted the image to black and white and inverted the tone curve I released some of that ancient fire.
Subject: Garden Dahlia (Dahlia pinnata)
How did I create this image? I took a series of images at f8 with successively deeper focal planes using a Nikkor 105 mm macro lens on a Nikon Z7 camera body. The multiple images were then complied into one image which is sharp from front to back using Zerene Stacker. I edited the RAW file in Lightroom to bring my vision to life. Each image is a marriage of technology and art. Enjoy!
Artist Statement: The exquisite beauty of flowers is both fragile and fleeting. And yet, flowers so often bear witness to the eternal truths of our lives: love and loss; birth and death; joy and grief; triumph and failure. My goal is to capture not only the ephemeral beauty of the flowers I photograph, but to create images with the capacity to evoke our enduring emotions, dreams, and deeper truths. Enjoy!
FORGED IN FIRE 24x16 200 ppi__2021-09-13-12.08.36 ZS DMap,ER=10,SR=5,CTPCT=85.6,CTLEV=2.6724843E-4-Edit-2-Edit-7-6.jpg