Teacup and Violas

Just a teacup and violas set up on an antique washstand.  I tried this with flash and without.  This one came out the best for the processing I used.  This was processed in Photoshop Elements 6 using Topaz Simplify cartoon.  I used my own preset and adjusted it to achieve the painted look. Camera settings: [...]

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Beverage

Cartoon effect Pepsi can.  Processed with Topaz Simplify.  Used my own adjusted preset.  Placed the can on my black office chair and shot from there.  I usually fuss and fume about my blog photos.  This one took about 10 minutes.  I also used quite a bit of burning on this one. Camera settings: F/5.6, 1/60 [...]

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Glass

Two bottles on a windowsill.  No adjustments except levels and cropping. Camera settings: F/6.3, 1/640 sec., ISO 400, focal length – 12.9 mm.

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Blue and Yellow Still Life

Picked a few calendulas and some leather fern and made this miniature arrangement.  I used my cardboard and tissue paper light box with some various lamps and flashlights as light sources.  Photo was levels, highlights and sharpness adjusted.  I used a fairly high (around 7 px) High Pass filter.  I then ran it through Topaz [...]

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Bananas and Cream

I had been wanting to learn how to make a simple light box for a long time.    The rainy days make shooting outside pretty difficult.    I found simple instructions here .  I couldn’t believe that it took about 20 minutes to make a light box.  Of course I didn’t have poster board so I used [...]

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Edible

This theme was very challenging.  I decided to try to do a still life using one of my teacups and Scottish shortbread.   I had made some at Christmastime and it seemed a good candidate. ( I could eat the results, too )  I probably took about 40 shots trying to get one I really liked.  [...]

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