Your beloved photographer has been trying out some still life photography for a change. Now as many of my devoted fans… *cough*.. will know, I prefer to just take shots as they appear and not tamper with things.
This changed however with the new issue of Digital Photo Magazine which had an interesting section on still life photography. Having spent countless hours in the man room/budget photo studio/loft job searching and fighting off hordes of the undead on the Xbox360, I fancied getting back into photography after the festive period. So, having grabbed a few bits and bobs that were kicking about in the man room, I created this:
Looks like a basic still but is actually a composition of three different photos. Each object was lit using a mag-lite torch with a long shutter speed (around 5 seconds depending on the aperture). I took around 15-20 photos of each object to get it just right. Then in Photoshop I dragged all three photos onto one layer and changed the blending mode from normal to lighten. This basically means that all the lighter parts of the photos appear through the darker shades.
And there we have it… a basic still life!
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