Now that I have a little bit of down time, I took some time to work on other types of photography outside of portrait photography. I recently shot a still life, because I wanted some photos to test my updated computer processing speeds in Lightroom and Photoshop. I’m quite happy with the improved processing speeds of my updated computer, I’m also happy with how the still life photos came out. The inspiration for the still life photo came from two places, one while I was eating some mandarins at work and the old Dutch Masters . Several of the Dutch Master still life paintings are simple with only a few elements and very low-key. I will admit some of the painting may look very low-key due the paintings age and it needing to be cleaned to remove the soot build up from over the years and the darkening varnish. However, I’m going to stick with the darker images I have seen in art museums. Basic Shoot Set Up For this shoo...
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