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FollowArtist, Maggie Ayres, using a scalpel to carve into layers of wax used in an encaustic painting.
NOTE: This is my photo, but it's my wife's web...
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Artist, Maggie Ayres, using a scalpel to carve into layers of wax used in an encaustic painting.
NOTE: This is my photo, but it's my wife's web address as it was created for promoting her art
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NOTE: This is my photo, but it's my wife's web address as it was created for promoting her art
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This photo was taken in my wife's studio. She's an artist who works primarily in encaustic - layers of wax melted with damar tree resin - which she adds oils, rust, inks and anything else that takes her fancy, into those layers. Sometimes she scrapes back, or gouges or slices into the wax, only to rub something into those marks. I took a series of photos of her as she was working on one of her pieces, and this one, with the close up on the hand, and the strong diagonal of the scalpel, leapt out at me when I was reviewing the photos on the computer the following day.Time
This was taken late morning, when I had hoped to make the most of the natural daylight that streams through the large, south facing Georgian windows at her studio, however... - see next boxLighting
... it turned out to be an extremely dark, wet, grey day where the light just wasn't strong enough for me to be able to catch the movement without going to ISO levels that were too high. So I ended up placing an off camera speedlite on a stand, pointing at the window, so the light bounced back from the glass and emulated a natural daylightEquipment
I used a Canon 7D mk2 with a Canon EOS 24-70mm lens, with a Canon SpeedliteInspiration
See first paragraphEditing
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