Dye, Oil and Water (Pt1)

The last few updates mixed oil and water. This time round I've added food dye to the recipe.
You have to be quick to react to the dye as it rapidly settles to the bottom of the glass.
Different colours also react differently when dropped into the water. Black and blue seem to sink the quickest and seem less inclined to fan out in pretty patterns than dyes at the red end of the spectrum - but its early days and some dilution may be required.

Water Wrackets

A trip to Nayland to shoot long exposures of water over rocks didn't come off quite as planned as recent rain meant the river level was too high, and the rocks were completely obscured. Still, we made lemonade...

Death And The Maiden

Are you one of those people who like to know someone suffered for their art? Well, someone did in this instance, though it wasn't me. The images were shot at first light on a cold October morning as we frantically tried to avoid the dog walkers of Dedham.
A more extensive set of these will appear on the website of my alter ego, James - they're a little bit too grown up for this blog.

The Boat That Rocked

A second set from Harwich, and a return to experiments with blur.
This time the camera was firmly held on a tripod, and the subject was moving. A narrow apperture and ND filters assisted the long-ish exposures.

On The Waterfront

Here are some views of Wivenhoe that you won't see very often...
Playing with in-camera (and post-production) impressionist techniques once again, this time with a more avowedly fantastical goal.
This set could be subtitled 'pan and scan' as lateral movements and zooming were used rather than the vertical movements of the graveyard set.
Post involved some custom curves and some contrast shifts using 'apply image'. There was also some selective colouring and tinting using various layers.

A River Runs Through It

My second shoot with the wonderful Fracture took us to a beautiful location surprisingly close to central London. With these shots my focus in post-production was on saturation - boosting in LAB colour, and mixing partial with full desaturation. Discussions about LAB colour and the various desaturation techniques available in Photoshop can be found on my two main websites.