I love these low aspect shots as they can add drama to even the most mundane scene! Here’s a shot from the winter on a semi-cloudy day, just moving towards a dog walking family and captured them several times with the camera almost touching the sand whilst shooting blind, a bit like camera tossing, […]
Aug 17, 2012 | Categories: Blog | Tags: beach, dog, Europe, figures, Flypaper Taster Pack, France, illustrative, Paul Grand, shells | Comments Off on Shell Collectors
A couple of summers ago, I drove north east in search of Lavender fields, I didn’t get very far, as I was distracted by the gigantic Pont du Gard, which surely has to be the worlds most famous Roman Aqueduct! Unfortunately this is a view from the Aqueduct and not the landmark, which I’m sure […]
Apr 24, 2012 | Categories: Blog | Tags: bathers, boats, Fauvist, figures, France, French, Paul Grand, Pont du Gard, Provence, river, Russell Brown Adobe Texture Panel, summer, Summer Painterly Pack, Tutorial, watercolour | Comments Off on river bathers
Its always nice to wake up and find another one of your babies gracing a published book cover! Here’s today’s, an American thriller, heavily textured with our flypaper painterly textures. Its just a preview copy as its not yet out, so I expect their colours will hopefully not be as muddled as this one with […]
Nov 29, 2011 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: action, Beziers, bookcover, city, drama, figures, France, French, Getty, grunge, Languedoc, lensbaby, medieval streets, Mediterranean, moody, movement, novel, Opal, Paul Grand, photoshop, published, Spring Painterly Pack, Summer Painterly Pack, Swans Way, Tempest Sea, thriller, woman | Comments Off on Chasing the wind
A freezing walk on our local French beach with friends and their dogs over the weekend, produced this simple image. The glow of the cold mid-winter sun warmed by applying several flypaper textures and this time, no colour tweaks!I’m typing this whilst looking out over gently falling snow flakes,Europe and this, our northern Mediterranean coastline […]
Jan 08, 2010 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: beach, Caramel soft, figures, Flypaper Textures, France, French, Languedoc, Mediterranean, mid-winter, Muscatel.cold, Necropolis, Paul Grand, Raw Linen, sand, Tex Box 1, Tex Box 2, vacation | Comments Off on Homeward bound
Another shot taken on a walk on the lovely Doctors Point Beach just to the north of Dunedin. These same people appear in a similar shot but I processed this one quite differently which shows how a different textures can give the same scene a whole new look. As well as some Flypaper Textures, I […]
Nov 30, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: beach, Bruised Saffron, Doctors Point Beach, Dunedin, figures, Flypaper Textures, Jill Ferry, landscape, lens blur, New Zealand, photoshop, red, sand, Sea, selected focus, Shargreen Bone, soft, Tex Box 1, Tex Box 2, tilt shift effect, vacation | Comments Off on Five
Back in early July we made a special trip to the beach at sunset just to photograph the full moon rising over the Mediterranean.The light was superbly opalescent, and I was lucky, as I captured several nice images as well as the later moonrise. This is one, a huge red container, not sure why it […]
Nov 18, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: beach, bright, Caramel soft, concept, evening, figures, Flypaper Textures, France, French, gloaming, golden hour, homeward, Languedoc, Mediterranean, metal, out of context, out of place, painterly, Paul Grand, people, red box, sand, Sea, shipping container, soft, strange, surreal, Tex Box 2 | Comments Off on red box
Another human for our professional readers!Taken on a professional Portrait shoot with French Artist, Martine Roch a couple of years ago. This one was never used but I now like the little surreal looking figure with a bucket in the corner!It was shot in that cold, sharp April light, the shadows being so dark, it […]
Nov 12, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: Artist, beach, blond, breakwater, Caramel soft, carrying, carrying on, concept, Contra jour, figure, figures, Flypaper Textures, France, French, Getty, golden, Languedoc, leaving, lone, man with buck, Martine Roch, mature, Mediterranean, moody, Necropolis, painterly, parting, Paul Grand, pink, portrait, Raw Linen, reflected light, reflector, Sea, single, strong, surreal, surrealist, Tex Box 1, uplighter, vacation, woman | Comments Off on Life goes on
We were contacted by the lovely Kayla from Digiscrap101 a while back, she wanted to do a tutorial using our textures,and of course we were happy to oblige. Here they are, hot off the press and it’s very easy to follow.Enjoy:-) Photoshop CS3 Video Photoshop Elements Video:
Nov 11, 2009 | Categories: Tutorials | Tags: child, Digiscrap101, figures, Flypaper Textures, girl, Kayla, Photoshop Elements Video, red hair, sand, Sea, sea shore, soft, Tutorial, vacation, videoPhotoshop CS3 Video, videos | Comments Off on Flypaper Textures video tutorials
Another day another beach! I took this last weekend when we went for a quick walk at Doctors Point near Dunedin. Since my family isn’t cooperative when it comes to photos I have to make the most of any opportunities when it comes to getting some human interest in my photos, taking photos of distant […]
Oct 29, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: Caramel soft, distance, evening, figures, footprints, Getty, golden hour, Green, Jill Ferry, New Zealand, sand, Sea, Shagreen bone, shore, soft, sunset, Tex Box 1, vacation | Comments Off on Family Walk
This was taken after a lovely walk on my favourite beach. These two little girls were busily building a sandcastle when a wave came and washed away most of their hard work as often happens. Although this looks warm it was quite chilly but being kids they were obviously too caught up in what they […]
Oct 24, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: beach, children, couple, Dangerous Liaisons, Dunedin, figures, Flypaper Textures, girls, Grande Tour, Jill Ferry, kids, New Zealand, play, playing, sand, sand castle, Sea, Tex Box 1, toddlers, two, vacation, water | Comments Off on The castle…
Nora Batty (inspired by the BBC’s ‘Last of the summers wine’) was used here to illustrate Logistics or Summers End, when our local beach shack cafe was removed 🙁
Sep 17, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: beach, Beach Shack, concept, distance, figure, figures, France, French, Getty, illustrative, Languedoc, man, Mediterranean, Paul Grand, removal, ropes, sand, soft, structure, surreal, Tex Box 1, vacation, winch, worker | Comments Off on Logistics
Again, I think its a simple use of our ‘Nora Batty’ texture overlay.
Sep 15, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: beach, deck chairs, eating, figures, France, French, Languedoc, life guards, Mediterranean, Nora Batty, parasol, Paul Grand, sand, soft, sunbathers, vacation | Comments Off on The Big Eat
This texture is a favorite, I’ve only used it once here,but we’re planning on bringing more out asap!It was named ‘Dangerous Liaisons’ as it brings to mind a crumpled letter. See it on Flickr
Sep 13, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: angle, beach, Dangerous Liaisons, distance, figures, Flypaper Textures, France, Languedoc, letter, low shot, morning, Paul Grand, sand, Sea, surreal, Tex Box 1, vacation | Comments Off on Beach Builders
