On June 24th, it was the National Holiday in Quebec (yes, Quebec is the only province in the world to have a national holiday) and I took a couple of pictures of a concert during the festivities.. The singer is Karine Ste Marie (see her myspace page here) and she performed with her band. I’ve been trying out editing with textures, you can see some of the results here… We’ll probably do a photo shoot later on this summer, so […]
On one of my smoke shoots, some dust was falling and it reflected the light of my flash when I took pictures… The results looks like stars, stardust, and give a little extra to the smoke pictures. The one picture doesn’t have much editing done to it, the other was mirrored with the previously discussed technique. For those who haven’t seen my other smoke pictures yet, I have made a dedicated gallery page.. check out my smoke photography If you […]
When I was done with this picture, I thought this looked like a movie poster for some sci-fi movie starring Arnold Schwarzenneger as the astronaut/alien hero, and two Bond girls… I never stop being amazed at what can be discovered in smoke… from Lumendipity Photography Blog – www.lumendipity.com/blog
Here are some of my latest smoke pictures.. The technique is still the same as the one described in my earlier posts, in short: smoke picture, mirroring, erasing excess smoke, selective colouring. For more detailed information, check my earlier posts. For ‘Queen of Hearts’ I first intended to only use the heart shape.. but when working on it, I thought the other smoke looked like hair and that’s how I ‘discovered’ the queen of hearts… The other picture is called […]
I usually post my pictures to some photography forums, and when I posted this picture, I asked people what they see in it.. I love how people see different things and sometimes they make me see angles on my pictures that I hadn’t noticed before. Here are some of the responses I received, let’s see if you can see it all.. or let me know if you see something else! I see a horse on the right, but I can’t […]
A couple of my pictures have been featured in the May issue of SNAP magazine, with an article about me. My first publication in the press! You can download the lite version of the magazine, or buy the full version here from Lumendipity Photography Blog – www.lumendipity.com/blog
Maybe this title isn’t that relevant, but sometimes it feels like digging and digging, until you finally stumble on something… some delicate handling and cleaning before the piece is ready to be shown… This time it looks like I discovered some ancient duck-like animal. Or is it an X-ray of a dog? I think I’m almost done with the raw materials I have, so I may be shooting some more smoke soon… from Lumendipity Photography Blog – www.lumendipity.com/blog
What can I say.. smoke photography is quite addictive. Using the ‘mirroring’ technique, I’ve created the below images, and this time used some digital crayolas to add some colour. Non-destructive with hue & saturation adjustment layers & masks, so I can always go back and change colours if I feel like it.. I’ve named the first one the Alien Boss, and the second one Scary Smoke.. One person told me the first looks like some strange totem pole, and someone […]
The Botanical Gardens in Montreal have an exposition on butterflies at the moment, called Butterflies go free, which I went to see today.. Although there are hundreds of butterflies flying around in the greenhouse, it’s not the ideal circumstances to take pictures, with tons of people bumping into you as you’re standing in line from entrance to exit. Oh well, it was to be expected on a Sunday morning.. Still a very nice experience. The high key image is of […]
There are a couple of ongoing themes I’m working on: now and then I add a picture to the theme and one day it will be a series of photographs that tell a story.. One of these themes is windows and doors, and I wanted to upload some entries here as a preview.. Windows can be open, closed, mysterious, sad, promising better things ahead, hiding bad memories inside.. what inspires me is the contrast, not necessarily in lighting, but in […]