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Have had next assignment - Family. One of the warning sentences in that is "careful sizing of images wil be required to ensure that you do not run out of allocated web space". I think we need some instruction on this. I know for sure that ALL the images I have put into the Signs of Life assignment have not been resized and some are HUGE!

Help please Mr Tutor that is reading this.

My Images - in the style of ...

... in the style of Picasso

A still life that has a Picasso feel to it - before his cubist days.

My Images - Lightbox and Fuchsia

EXPLORING STILL LIFE

Still Life with Lightbox and Fuchsia
Decided to try some macro still life phtography using the Canon 300D and 50mm macro lens and a lightbox as a source of light.
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Decided 0259 was the nicest image - however there is very little depth of field as I could not reduce the shutter speed any lower. I would like to try this again using a tripod for the camera so I can use a longer shutter speed and a clamp so that I can keep the flower still. The camera was handheld and I was holding the flower between my fingers!

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My Images - in the style of ...

... in the style of Cezanne

Research - Paul Cezanne

Cezanne
1839-1906
One of the greatest artists of our age. He painted many still life's with classical motifs.

Woman with Coffee Pot
This is a small detail of the whole image and shows how Cezannes images were becoming more abstract - in this detail we can see violets and complementary yellows and blue shadows - not realistic but as a whole they are very effective. The ellipses in this are not in perspective.

Still Life with Plate of Cherries
Here the plate of cherries are not in perspective with the other items on the table unless there is a block under the table cloth tipping the cherries forward so we can see them in full. As Cezanne worked his paintings became more and more abstract. What are the marks he makes depicting? Are they real items or creative abstract images?

Still Life with Basket of Apples
Big, bold brush strokes. The perspective is disjointed; the right side of the table top is not on the same plane as the left - but evocative none-the-less.

Apples and Plate of Biscuits
The items are placed on a box with a hinge fastening. The similar colours for the surface facing side of the box are the same which at first confuses, particularly as the motif on the box is similar to that on the wallpaper.

Tureen, Bottle and Basket of Apples
Table top composition with all items on the table and in a clearly distinguishable room.

Vessels, Cloth and Pot-Plant in Flower
This is a messy composition and unusually green is the predominant colour.

Vessels, Fruit and Cloth in Front of Chest
This image is compact and dense and the composition is a triangle. Without this the image would have been dull, the chest in the background acts as a balance to the verticals and horizontals in front of it. Perspective seems to be a little odd in this painting as the items in the foreground have depth and feel 3 dimensional but the background seems flat and 2 dimensional. The screen and the chest merge into one. The colours in the apples appear in the chest and this leads the eye around the painting.

My Images - Spiral Staircase

EXPLORING STILL LIFE
Spiral Staircase at Warwick Castle

Found this spiral staircase very exciting and it reminded me of a Henri Cartier Bresson image. I was using Canon 300D with 18-200mm zoom lens.
0201 has my feet, the camera strap and another person in the image and it is poorly composed as you can see the window ledge.
0202 the composition is much better but the full sweep of the staircase has been cut on the left of the image.
0203 this is much better with the stairs visible all the way until they are hidden behind the top of the stairs.
I decided to process these to see if I could tidy them up - the wood on the handrail nearest to the camera was too bright so I burned that part of the image so that the wood was a similar shade to the stairs. I converted to black and white but not quite because I wanted to keep the almost metallic Green on the main handrail. The results can be seen below.

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The spiral staircase was inspired by this image by Henri Cartier-Bresson.

My Images - Window

EXPLORING STILL LIFE
Warwick Castle - Window Stays and Handles

On a recent trip to Warwick Castle I became fascinated by the window mechanisms. Above is the contact sheet of the digital images I took using Canon 300D 18-200mm zoom lens. I did not have the Macro lens with me and rather wished I had.
After showing the images to Steve he suggested converting them to black and white.
Below are the images processed. I have converted them to black and white, adjusted the contrast, cropped and cloned to tidy up one of them.

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