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It's not the big things that always make a dramatic statement, sometimes we have to look right below our feet to find beauty.
This is a re-working of a Photo that I published quite a while ago, It was taken on Blackpool Beach in Lancashire, UK.
The simplicity of the shell against the wet sand really appealed to me and, I have cleaned up the original shot somewhat as there were a few artifacts spoiling the shot.
It is still a 3 exp Handheld HDR with +-1ev on each shot, tonemapped and processed with Photomatix Pro 3.0 and then cleaned up in Photoshop and an unsharp mask appled.
Artist Name: Zuzana Spendelova
Challenge Name: CPM Challenge 1306 Sea Shells
Category: Beginner/ Student
Email: florigera@yahoo.co.uk
Derwent Coloursoft pencils on A4 Canson sketchbook paper
This piece was followed with so many bad coincidences, that it's already a win it's finished and uploaded...
First I meant to do it on Canson Mi-Teintes sand paper, but my KIN pencils just didn't want to work on this surface. So I put out my new 24 pc tin of Coloursofts. They are lot drier in compare to the creamy KIN pencils, but I decided to try them out. Although the test in the sketchbook went ok, I failed again on Mi-Teintes. The time was running out, so I just finished the piece in the sketchbook...
There was a special reason why I didn't want to miss out this month's challenge.. it's exactly a year since I entered a CPM challenge for the very first time and I wanted to compare my entries and see the progress - if there's some ;) - I made in the last year :)
These little molluscs are about 5mm long and always congregate in large
numbers at low tide. For Macro Mondays, Just Textures
Shell Sign
Cambridge, Massachusetts
The shell sign has received a facelift and what a clear day to get a shot of it. Pretty bold colors right out of the camera!
My thanks to Jack Snell for the use of his hot rod photo. His photo stream can be found here: www.flickr.com/photos/jacksnell707/ and thanks to my pal Kid Deuce for the continued use of his Shell Station photo. His photo stream can be found here: www.flickr.com/photos/80643375@N00/
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Designed and folded by me.
Shell design by Tomoko Fuse
Medium: 30x30 double tissue paper
CP: Here
This is the hermit crab from the CP a few days ago. The layers got very thick, especially towards the opening of the shell. Especially since there is a brown stripe running down the middle of the shell. Perhaps I can fold the edges of the white side paper underneath so I can get a good spiral effect...
I also don't really have a good locking mechanism - I just curved the two edges of the shell underneath to "lock" it. The shell is of course the Navel shell from Tomoko Fuse's SPIRAL book. The shell isn't exactly 3D, which is what I prefer for hermit crab designs, but it works nevertheless, as I had this shell in mind when designing.
This picture shows the "navel" of the shell design.
Shells in their natural environment
2 strobes behind the water tank pointing at a reflective white background
The corn shelling machine was made in my neighborhood but we saw it at a farmhouse in King's Landing, New Brunswick. Apparently this was a high tech device in the 1860's.
Arcade at the foot of Shell Mex House, Savoy Place, London WC2. Messrs Joseph architects, 1930-31.
Sony A7 + Canon FDn 50mm f/1.4
- Scallop shell
Semipallium dianae (Crandall, 1979)
Found: Okinawa -Japan
Depth 85-165feet
Nikon D90 105macro
Aquarium shot- through glass
I scanned these from books whose © is long extinguished. You can use them to digitally manipulate, if you please. I think they are big enough
Still Life
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Theses scallop shells hang outside a dorset seafood restaurant. I love their colours, shape , the ridges. Photo edited with vignette to enhance the shells and the rope they are hanging from .
Shell Grotto, Hampton Court House, The Green, East Molesey, KT8 9BS. Photo taken during Open House London weekend.
I know, everyone does the nautilus shell. I've done it before on film onto palladium.
For this image I wanted to see if the digi-snapper could retain the subtle details that I expect from film. For auto focus and autoexposure, the $300 camera didn't do half bad, eh?
The resolution and quality of these images at full resolution is astounding to me. Makes me want to sell all my traditional film cameras and go completely digital.
So... if you know of anyone interested in a Mamiya 7, maybe even a few 4x5 view cameras and lenses... keep me in mind...
Leah collected these shells when we were away in Torremolinos, Spain in November 2008 to celebrate my 40th birthday...
A sea urchin shell found on the California shore.
For strobist readers:
An SB-24 camera left, a 580ex camera right. Each is set to ~1/8 power (which means that the 580ex is throwing more light), and diffused through a piece of paper that I folded to make it stand upright. The backdrop is an article of clothing I wasn't wearing, and the minor reflections you see beneath the shell are from a stand made from two paperclips.