Tag: Photography
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Kelmarsh Reenactment. (#30010)
I was invited to photograph the famous reenactment site in the UK – Kelmarsh. Unfortunately, because it is the UK, their plans of fighting in very heavy chain armour, with very heavy swords, and my plans of taking photos of their hard work from a comfortable-ish seat, were ruined by rain. I still managed some…
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Dynamic Portrait. (#29658)
Last photo from the 20,000’s. Playing pool in this pub, decided to take a photo of my friend shaking his head to see what comes of it. Decided to keep it and post it here because although the quality and the lighting is so-so, the way his static shoulders clash with the movement of hair…
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Disc.
My housemate was fitting his guitar with a piezo pick-up and a preamp (whatever those are) so he needed a drill. I took this as a wonderful opportunity to take some abstract macro shots. Here’s the first of the three.
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Lightroom Experiments: Sneak.
In this one I tried to make my own bokeh. The four spots on the red blood patch are actually adjustment brush points set to reduce saturation to 20% and increase exposure, with a very tiny amount of feathering. I tried to keep the size similar to the actual bokeh but they look a…
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Lightroom Experiments: Fire & Smoke.
Tried to use what the shot offered here. The column of bokeh in the background looked like a column of smoke to me so I worked around that. To me it looks like a huge ash pile on top of which is a bonfire that the guy in the background is huddling close to, but is…
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Lightroom Experiments: Down.
Quite similar to the previous post, tried to make the ricochets a bit more subtle and the gun flare a bit more realistic. The difficult part was getting a slight glow from the gun behind the rock. As for the non-edited bits, the flashgun was pointing down from the top of the brick at…
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Lightroom Experiments: Hit and Miss.
Not quite as elaborate as the first image in the series but here I tried to create relatively believable gunshot flares. The ricochet mark on the top left looks a little cartoony but I think that fits in quite well. A more subtle touch is the blood by the fallen soldier as well as reflections…
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Lightroom Expriments: Tunnel
Before and after shot of what I’ve been working on recently. No actual Photoshop was used – just adjustment brush layers in LR. I tried to be thorough with reflections like the edges of the tunnel and elbows/knee of the soldier. The “tunnel” is really the hollow part of the bottom of a wall-topper, where…
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Day 7: Bryophyte.
This post concludes Macro Week #3. Next up are some more toy soldiers. Here I was going for a minimalist, almost studio-like look. Similar set-up to shutterpresser.com/2014/07/19/day-4-thistle with a radial filter brightening the left side along with the moss, to form a gradient.
Maks Swiderek 