Monday, August 20, 2012

Photography & The Musketeers Boot


A flower, a rose I think, from Mrs Kinch's garden
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I did a brief refresher photography course on Sunday. It was mainly a case of rediscovering things I'd forgotten, but it was fun and it certainly rekindled my interest in things.



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 This girl looked entirely out of place (or rather time) to me, she had a face that belonged in a Velazquez or a Goya. This was a candid shot taken with a tripod, I was trying to capture the look of a pre-electric light interior.  If I was taking this shot again and could pose it, I would have tried to bounce some light onto her face.




 

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A pensive looking Cherubim
I should have framed this to either cut out the second fellow or bring him fully into the picture. Shorter exposure next time, would like to get this one right.


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Some purple things from Mrs Kinch's garden

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A riot of colour



In the meantime, I've plodded along with my musketeer. All the gaps are filled, though I notice when it dried that it swells slightly, leaving a bump. It has a slightly chalky feeling to the touch and I've been knocking it about a bit with a scrap of Mrs Kinch's furniture restoration sandpaper. Slow, but steady Kinch. The trick is to make sure I don't put him somewhere safe so that I can come back to him. That way rediscovering him five years later lies.

4 comments:

  1. Kinch, sir! You are a barbarian. Ask Mrs Kinch nicely to tell you the names and varieties of her flowers. Do it at once!

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  2. Well, the first one is a Rose.

    The second one is a Lictus.

    The third one shows Fuchsia, Crocosmia and a third plant is the bottom left hand corner that I forget the name of.

    I regard Mrs Kinchs garden as I regard wine, I take a great and entirely uneducated pleasure in it.

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  3. Very nice work. Kay says that crocosmia is commonly known as Lucifer's Tongue. The second one, she says, is Lychnis Chalcedonia. To me, they are all pretty flowers.

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