DECAYED ART
When the Good Girls came for their shoot they very kindly brought me some flowers and a bottle of wine – this is a story in the telling and not a mandate for visitors – The bottle of wine I never saw as Oliver got bored and drank it…but the lovely white tulips sucked hungrily on their vase of water until their time was up and they had to return to compost.
It was a cold and windy morning and I was wondering if I would get away with ignoring the wilting vase when I realised that the clever little things had arranged themselves in their mortal throes in a way that could not have been imitated in life. Now I may be reluctant to get cold but never to take a picture so I rushed into the studio and set the wheels in motion. I then went back and gently transfered the dying works of art on to a sheet of polished black acrylic – that I keep especially for such purposes – and re aligned here and there until perfect.
I was also lucky that MGD had dumped his continuous lighting on the studio a week before and so, together with a brown-based old master background from those sweethearts at Studio Decor, I brought the Lastolites to bear. A few quick tests and a bit of jiggery pokery in Adobe Lightroom and we have one rather nice still life from a bunch of flowers that had shone gloriously for to weeks and then were in the bin before my first coffee. And all before 08.30 a.m. I just finalised the one pose and you can see it below.
Just a hint of blue in the vase lifts the corner, adding balance and modernity.
Thats all of my “Blue Peter” photography for today. I hope you like. best wishes until my next post – about my brilliant day with TREVOR AND FAYE YERBURY.
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