Secret Garden

My Aunty is a budding artist & is currently studying art and design. She asked me to photograph her final piece for her 'Sense of Place' project. The idea is a weaving ball made out of willow, ivy and branches all from the garden. There is a scary doll's head, arm and old tea set that is placed in the middle to represent the eerie side to an enchanted, forbidden garden.

Here are the photos, I hope you like the final piece. :)

Splash Photography

Last week, I was set a task to experiment with splash photography. I researched various techniques and watched tutorials and although I thought it looked challenging, I was ready and willing to give it a go! However, I had no idea just how hard it would be !!!

You can take around 20 shots and only one will be any good. It takes lots of patience and I found it easy with another pair of hands to help, so they can drop the object into the liquid to create the splash & you can focus mainly on your camera.

Here are the various stages of my first trial:

The first few shots are taken with a soft bauble from the Christmas tree but the decoration wasn't heavy enough to create a big enough splash.

Then I tried a pebble from outside in the garden, this fell too quickly and was hard to photograph. I then tried a shell decoration but that was too light.

The best object that I used to crete a big splash was a frozen raspberry. It seemed to be a perfect size and weight for the splash I was trying to achieve. Although some of them are blurred, I am happy enough with them for a first attempt.

I also tried out using milk, I didn't think it worked aswell because you can't see the bubbles like you can in the water or the raspberry. 

I am not a massive fan of photographing still life however it was good practice and interesting to try out something new that I hadn't done before.

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