Spring is my favourite season. Any normal year, with good weather and the spring flowers in bloom, I would happily spend many long hours in the woods. Sadly this isn't a normal year. The great lock-down means the best I can do is bring a few flowers to me. Fortunately, the over exuberant officers of Cambridgeshire police have yet to get as far as deciding what is non-essential in St Neots Tesco. So, I've been able to pick up some on my socially distanced shopping trips. I also have a lovely deep window in the living room that is very handy for tabletop photography.
Rather than some straight and boring flower portraits, I decided to try to make some images in the style of Pep Ventosa. For anyone not aware of him, Pep Ventosa is a Spanish photographer who has developed a technique that involves taking multiple pictures of the same image from slightly different angles. All of the individual shots are then blended together. The final result is a very impressionist image. It's a technique I have seen used to great effect by other CCC members. I have had a couple of attempts whilst out and about without great success. The ideal subject is something that can be photographed from a full 360 degrees. This is very easy is achieve when shooting in a home studio. Set up the camera on a tripod, frame your subject with space either side and then rotate the subject a small amount between each shot. For a first serious attempt I am quite pleased with results.
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