1-DSCN3567 Favourite Toys
Nov, 2015Views
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Location
This image was taken at home on the window sill in natural light.Time
In the afternoonLighting
when the sunlight was shining through the window giving me enough natural light.Equipment
I used my small Nikon Coolpix S2800. At that time I was just starting to get interested in photography and the little camera was all I had.Inspiration
I took the photo because I love toys from nature which I'm always collecting. I get fascinated by shape and texture and these shells, many of them just common oyster shells have such intricate patterns. I only allow myself a few and leave the rest to stay as nature intended on the beach, so this is just an assemblage on a tray of those I've collected during walking with my two greyhounds. I find the patterns within like a plate of jewelleryEditing
I just used some shadow and highlights from the editing site Picasa as the monochromatic pale colours needed nothing more. At that time I knew nothing of sites such as Adobe'sIn my camera bag
I carry very little equipment in my bag as weight is an issue being elderly and with a wonky painful spine. I usually take two cameras a Nikon 5500 with 18-200 mm lens and the faithful small Coolpix for unobtrusive shots and for capturing something small that might interest me. Mostly I do without a tripod and hope to find something to balance against as I am very much of the happy snapper genre!Feedback
I prefer to keep my images as natural as the camera caught them and any editing is solely done for enhancement. In my youth I spent several years at a London art school studying design and we were encouraged to constantly fill sketch books. As life was centred in a London bed/sit finding things to draw wasn't easy until our eyes were trained to find patterns and shapes in the surrounds of street manhole covers,chimney pot rows and whatever. This emphasis on always looking out for something to interest the eye has been the best training I could ever have had. Of course being involved in design has also taught me to realise that the negative space in a composition of any kind is just as important as the positive.
