An artichoke! Right. . . so this month I decided that instead of chasing after a child that I would instead photograph a willing subject. I thought an artichoke with it's abundance of texture might make for interesting black + white still life photos. Food photography is, of course; usually in color but I thought that these worked well despite the lack of color. This was a good learning experience in that I got to really focus on light and shadow. I love photographing the kiddo - she's kind of my muse and the reason I picked up a camera again. It just gets frustrating always sometimes when I see perfect light but can't convince her to stand a certain way or whatever to make my "vision" work. The dog seems to be of the same mind so I think once in a while I'm just going to raid the fridge when I feel like having a stress free photo session.
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Don't you just love the uniqueness of artichokes? We grow them in our garden and I love to let them go to flower!
ReplyDeleteLove this Vanessa, it's so perfect and captures the subject beautifully! Reminds me of that artichoke joke, ahahah
ReplyDeleteThese definitely work! it shows off the form of the artichoke.
ReplyDeleteCool light and shadow you captured on that artichoke! I love your processing on it as well!
ReplyDeleteWow what a great idea. I love your subject and the comps in these. Great conversions too.
ReplyDeleteMakes me smile. Love your willing subject!
ReplyDeleteVanessa, these are awesome! I love your conversion, the light, the texture of the artichoke, and your composition. Beautiful! I bet it was nice to have a subject sit still for awhile! :)
ReplyDeleteArtichoke was a great choice for you. Your use of light is wonderful, there is so much depth & the images have a wonderfully painterly feel.
ReplyDeleteWoah, Vanessa! These are absolutely beautiful. The light is just gorgeous and highlights the texture so well! Wonderful work!
ReplyDeleteLove the artichoke pictures! The way of shadow and light.. it works very gently together, like on the old photos which I love :)
ReplyDeletethis is so beautiful. I'm not a photographer, but sometimes I see the light hitting my girls in a certain way and wish they would just stay still, and that I had the skills to capture it just like that. And artichoke actually does a great job of modeling though. haha. It's really pretty!
ReplyDeleteI love this kind of light. Its my favorite which is good because my kitchen has one small window!!
ReplyDeleteI never knew an artichoke could be so beautiful.
ReplyDeletei love this! If i had space on my walls I would hang this in my kitchen.
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