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Caption: Before I Depart One More
Still Life
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Caption: I was supposed to be packing to leave early the next morning. I had the best intentions to stay on task with that job. But suddenly
I was overwhelmed with the beauty of the flowers in our urban Minneapolis alley
and decided I had to
create one more floral still life before I departed.
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Caption: I rationalized that these flowers needed to be documented in this moment of my life because they would never look like this again.
Packing would have to wait.
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Caption: My preparations began with assembling my fabrics, clips, scissors, vase, camera, tripod, reflector and clothes pins.
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Caption: I've adapted my front porch into my photo studio. The challenge is controlling the intense west facing light in the late afternoon.
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Caption: I have discovered that my favorite light diffuser is my wedding veil.
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Caption: I grabbed my digital SLR and went out to the alley to collect the flowers.
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Caption: After collecting the flowers I pulled several infinity scarves with perfect complimentary colors to hug the base of the white vase I had chosen.
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Caption: Next was my trusted tripod.
I've learned to always use a tripod so the images are super sharp and, if I use the camera's timer, my hands are free to hold a reflector.
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Caption: Now comes the 30-40 minutes
of playing with the color and intensity of the light to create
the desired still life portrait.
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Caption: And then, just for an added special effect I often adjust the light even more to create a soft focus look that I may use later in a greeting card with an appropriate soft message to the recipient.
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Caption: So that is the story of how I made this still life portrait.
Remember I was going out of town? Well, I did depart as planned. I left the bouquet on the table so my cat sitter could enjoy it and soon she'll receive a Thank You card with this portrait on it.
She'll love it!
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Caption: Thank you for reading my story. More emotions, videos and pictures to come.
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