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 dull afternoon on the beach found me on my knees trying to get a low level shot. Overcast days are perfect to try moody, grainy textures.The idea behind this picture was ‘a Message in a bottle’, but from the bottles perspective!The Lime Plaster somehow helps give that ‘old distorted glass effect’ . Tex Pack […]
Dec 10, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: beach, bleak, cold, concept, figure, Flypaper Textures, France, French, Getty, grainy, grunge, illustrative, landscape, Languedoc, lime plaster, man, Mediterranean, Message in a bottle, ming, old distorted glass effect, Paul Grand, pebbles, photoshop, surreal, Tex Box 2, vacation, view from a bottle, Voyageur map | Comments Off on m e s s e n g e r
We drove past this windmill many times on the way to the beach,situated on a hilltop overlooking the Mediterranean salt marshes.Thankfully we managed to stop a few times at sunset on route home to capture it on camera.I was lucky because it was cut down this year, it was really sad to see the top […]
Dec 07, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: big sky, coast road, derelict, Flypaper Textures, France, French, Getty, grunge, hill top, illustrative, iron, landscape, Languedoc, Mediterranean, moody, Necropolis, old, old time, painterly, pastel, Paul Grand, post fence, salt marches, surreal, Tex Box 1, Tex Box 2, trees, umbrella pine, vacation, Vendres plage, vines, vineyard, wall, water pump, windmill, wire | Comments Off on Wall Story
A simple use of Flypapers Raw Linen in full blur mode.Blend hard light Opacity was 100%, fill Opacity @ 94% Necropolis texture was used to finish.Blend soft light 48% and fill opacity @ 57%. Just these two textures were used to create an almost ‘sepia effect’ of a visitor, perhaps from the past.
Oct 03, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: concept, Flypaper Textures, France, French, Getty, illustrative, Languedoc, lone, man, Mediterranean, moody, Necropolis, photoshop, Raw Linen, sand, Sea, sepia effect, shaw, soft, strange, stranger, surreal, Tex Box 1, vacation | Comments Off on visitor from the past
Here I used our ‘Necropolis’ texture very lightly.By simply running your mouse over the image you’ll see before and after the textures were applied!
Sep 18, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: back, beach, big sky, blue, blue hat, canvas, concentration, concept, Contra jour, cross ties, desaturated, far away, figure, France, French, illustrative, lady, landscape, Languedoc, legs, letter, low angle, mist, News, pale, Paul Grand, reading, sand, sand dunes, shadow, skies, soft, summer, Tex Box 1, vacation, wistful, woman | Comments Off on The Letter
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
