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Wild Things

An English summer meadow last June. I wanted to create a dreamy pastel effect so I blended a texture by taking a long exposure of a grow bag of all things. For ...
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An English summer meadow last June. I wanted to create a dreamy pastel effect so I blended a texture by taking a long exposure of a grow bag of all things. For the texture, I had to make used manual focus and made sure it was blurred. Using a long exposure allowed me to move around which helped to remove any text on the grow bag.
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Canon EOS 650D

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Aperture f/4.0 ISO 100 Shutter 1/2500 Focal Length 105/1

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Jun, 2015

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Behind The Lens

Location

This image of an English meadow was taken in at the Cotswold Lavender Farm.

Time

I was with some friends from our camera club on an outing I had suggested to capture some iconic shots of the lavender. We arrived around 10 am, had a quick coffee and set out towards the lavender. By about 11:15, a couple of us moved wondered off towards the meadow and I shot this image around 11:30.

Lighting

It was a lovely summer's day and I decided to shoot into the sun from a low angle focusing on a single poppy.

Equipment

Although a had my tripod with me, I took this shot hand held with no flash or reflector.

Inspiration

I was inspired by Mandy Disher's work and was aiming for a dreamy effect.

Editing

I did do a fair amount of post processing in Photoshop to get my desired effect. Fist, I wanted to create my own texture and felt blues and yellows would work. As luck would have it I had recently bought a growbag which had a suitable image and decided to use that. So, I switched to manual mode and made sure I was totally out of focus with a slow shutter speed and moved the camera around whilst taking several shots of the growbag. I picked the shot I liked best and duplicated several times, got my image and duplicated that several time too then merged the newly created texture with the flowers over and over each time using a mask and revealing different parts of the original image to get the effect you see here.

In my camera bag

Along with my Canon 650D, I normally have a couple of ND filters to hand and often have my tripod over my shoulder. I always carry a spare battery and memory cards too.

Feedback

When trying this technique, do several shots and get as little of the sky as possible to achieve a dreamy look use a wide aperture and focus on a close individual flower to throw the background flowers out of focus.

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Wild Things

An English summer meadow last June. I wanted to create a dreamy pastel effect so I blended a texture by taking a long exposure of a grow bag of all things. For ... Read more

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