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I love the signature soft, almost ethereal glow of the Lensbaby Velvet 56 especially in the background and around the edges of the petals. This creates a very romantic and artistic feel. The radial arrangement of the flowers naturally draws the eye towards the centre, and the shallow depth of field helps to isolate the subject from any distracting background elements. My mindful approach to flower photography 😊
Let your life lightly
dance on the edges
of time
Like dew on
the tip of the leaf ...
rabindranath tagore
The beauty of grasses stir the imagination and delight the eye as they flow with ight and breezy moments.
The different views of these meadow grasses merge in my mind's eye.
Seen in the Explore "long tail" July 2, 2016
www.flickr.com/photos/julesoso_jjw/28033785405/in/explore...
Working on a little project where I try to make photos with the style from the pictoralism.
Taken with my Gandolfi with 5x7 reduction back.
The lens is the “Kodak portrait lens” which gives the soft look.
My lens is without shutter. Tried to use the “Galli shutter” It’s a bit complicated to make the correct exposure.
Most negatives turned out far too dark, but still possible to print.
Hope practice makes perfect 😊
(Sorry for my English)
This Nieuport 12 two seater biplane and its crew are the Royal Flying Corps wing of The 10th Essex Great War Living History Group who provided a very entertaining and informative display of the hazards of Reconnaissance flying over the trenches, no mans land, and enemy held territory of the Western Front in 1917 throughout their very long and hot day at Dover Castle Kent
This full sized aircraft is a professionally constructed film prop.
For more on the 10th Essex please see www.actofwar.co.uk/essex/info.html and for more on war in the air please see www.firstworldwar.com/features/aces.htm
colour picture made black and white then sepia with soft surrounding focus or blur and added film grain
A bit of soft light on the cow parsley plants gave me the idea for today's photo. I like the way the Lensbaby Sweet50 blends the colours in the background.
365/310 - Year 10 Photo 3597
playing around in PS- I like this but I am not sure why- a little mysterious looking, I think.
Thank you so much for your visits and have a good day! A very cold and windy one here but no snow on the ground!
"Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see
It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out, it doesn't matter much to me
Let me take you down, 'cos I'm going to Strawberry Fields
Nothing is real, and nothing to get hungabout
Strawberry Fields forever"
A dry rose.
This time it's going to be something romantic, a classic pop song.
The Rose - by Bette Midler
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxSTzSEiZ2c
"I say love, it is a flower,
And you it's only seed."
Lensbaby sent me over some samples to try out...
This is a detail from "Jesus loves the little children" a scupture by artist Greg Turner
A poppy and cornflowers in a flower bed planted by volunteers on a green near my home in Downend, Bristol
A simple trick to soft focus photography, Vaseline. Years ago when Catherine and I were shooting film a little trick we learned, and had fun with was to add {smear} some vaseline on a spare UV or clear filter. DO NOT do this on your lens!! You smear the petroleum jelly around the outer edges of the glass and try to leave the center of the filter clean and without the vaseline on it. A little alcohol on a paper towel can be used to clean the center should you get some of the jelly where you don't want it. Two other tricks to try that will give you a soft focus look is hair spray sprayed around the out perimeter of the filter, and you also can try shooting through a nylon stocking (with your wife's leg out of it) :) I haven't done this in years and I just thought about it again, found myself an unused filter, smeared the vaseline on it, and had some fun shooting the above images. Now you can buy soft focus filters, or for a much higher cost a LensBaby, and both will yield similar, but not quite the same results. But save yourself some money, smear 15 cents worth of vaseline on that filter and have some fun with it!