Experimenting with Lighting

You can tell we are back in lockdown when I start looking for photographic projects. I decided to photograph vegetables with chiaroscuro lighting using off-camera flash diffused through tissue paper. The first six are my favourites.

Playing with Lighting at Brandon

A third visit to Brandon, this time in the company of several CCC members and an attempt at some creative lighting. I was using a continuous LED light and, by accident, discovered different colour beech leaves make excellent colour filters brown, green and yellow. Some good species found including a very pristine Death's Cap.

Whoopers at Welney

Always a delight to watch the Whoopers on their return to their winter HQ and yesterday had the added bonus of very varied lighting conditions from the very soft lighting when there was cloud cover to the brilliant side lighting in the sunshine. The Whoopers must feel very much at home as, at the moment, the area between the two Bedford rivers is flooded. Images of the landscape and the other inhabitants to follow

 

Waddesdon Manor - An Enchanted Menagerie

 In the afternoon on Friday, we took a tour of the interior of the house, which has been decorated with an animal theme using some amazing constructions and coloured lighting. Barry is sporting a very trendy new fleece for the occasion and, as usual, I got captivated by the staircase which had very 'mixed' lighting sources no way of setting the white balance!