As requested, we now start to tackle live subjects!This image is from a shoot with a charming Danish Family.Its hard to believe that just a month ago we were still sea bathing!I don't recommend standing in the sea with an expensive camera, but if that's what it takes...
French
Gilded
This is in the south of France in my local languedoc area.There were many old windmills, but these are fast disappearing.This one overlooks my old village as seen from a farmers side road.I'd never seen it before the other evening! For this bucolic sunset scene I used...
nights backcloth
Whilst driving home from Carcassonne one blustery day last January,I came across this tree nursery, growing on the banks of a flooding river near our famous Olive Oil factory, the Coopérative Oléicole L'Oulibo, Bize-MinervoisThe setting sun lit up these trees like a...
Last snow
For this misty winter farm-track scene I used;Apple blush @ Vivid light - Opacity 37% Fill 34%Grosgrain @ Hard Light - Opacity 27%, Fill 28%Caramel soft @ Opacity 86%, Fill 100%
l’ennui du dimanche
I spotted this wonderfully lit building whilst coming out of a Beziers art gallery one Sunday afternoon, the weather was a little washed out and everything looked bleached gray except this eighteenth century building painted a cool shade of ocher.Naturally, when I...
visitor from the past
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...
View from St Nazaire
This is a favorite view of mine, taken from St Nazaire cathedral in Beziers, looking N/West. The water mill is best seen in winter because the trees obscure its view. In this image I wanted to be rid of the pesky houses at the bottom, so I simply cloned them...
Mist in the trees tutorial
For this misty mountain top landscape,
I used just two flypaper textures,
Circles of your mind
Here I used five of our 'flypaper 1' textures.I find that using several textures at a gentle opacity, really helps build up interesting depth and atmosphere!Pomeii StuccoBruised SaffronRaw LinenWhite ShagreenElysium
The Letter
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!