Bluebells
by Alexey Kljatov
Title
Bluebells
Artist
Alexey Kljatov
Medium
Photograph - Light Painting Photograph
Description
This is still life picture, done in light painting technique: bouquet of small bluebell flowers in transparent glass cup on saucer, against black background.
This image composed from series of 68 individual photos of same scene, but with different light. For lighting i used LED flashlight with semi-transparent white diffusor, mounted after LEDs. I illuminated scene from different directions (top, left, right, front, back) and different distances from flashlight to still-life composition. After source photo series was captured, i processed all photos with same parameters in RAW converter, and started manually painting masks for every photo, revealing only parts with most interesting light, and adding these parts to final mix.
This was most interesting, but also time consuming work, and most of that time was spent on painting fine details for every petal of every flower you see here.
After it was done, i've applied some post-processing steps: noise removing, sharpening, color balance, local and global contrast enchancements. Overall, this work took many and many hours, but this "painting photography" is really interesting task for me.
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January 18th, 2016
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Comments (11)
Shelley Prior
Alexey, I first became acquainted with your snowflake work a year ago. Since that time I’ve become a devotee. Wish I could tell you the hours of pleasure I’ve had looking at your images. Your skill and talent is astounding to me-the “Queen of Auto-Focus”. Hoping to see many years more of your work.
Alexey Kljatov replied:
Thank you so much, Shelley! I'll add new photos soon (have lots of old and new source shots to process).
Jenny Rainbow
Congratulations on being featured at the home page of the group Russian Art on Fine Art America!
Brian Tada
Alexey, you have taken photographic artistry to a new level of excellence with this superb portrait.... Big WOW factor here! Each flower has an inner glow all its own. So amazingly beautiful. Truly magnificent to behold! F/L
Alexey Kljatov replied:
Thank you very much! Yes, painting masks for every petal of every flower was time consuming, but interesting work.
Jeannie Rhode Photography
Alexey, Fantastic creative work with these beautiful Bluebells with great light effects, well done. L/V/F
Linda Howes
That's a lot of work you put into this light painting. I agree with Alan, that it is magical and enchanting, just gorgeous Alexey! l/f/tw
Alan Buck
I absolutely love your light paintings - magical and enchanting! Marvelous combination of creativity and patience. And I really appreciate your sharing such detailed information about your techniques.
Alexey Kljatov replied:
Thank you! These pictures are fun thing to process, though they take lots of time.
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