Saturday, 7 June 2014

Quietude



A long weekend and some quiet time - I feel like the flower in the image above: Laying down and resting, enjoying the sunshine and letting go off my thoughts ...

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, 
listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, 
is by no means a waste of time.
John Lubbock

Light is this weeks theme in Kim Klassens class Be Still 52. The morning light falls softly to our kitchen... I hang a table cloth as a back drop behind a low table with a white, linen cloth, where I layed the flower. I added Oldendays-Lightroom preset by Kim Klassen, together with Roxi Hardegree's Scriptured Overlayer 02, to the flower image.



To get a dreamy look and shallow depth of field to the bowl and the flower above, I selected f/stop 8 and used spot metering. I added Kim's Lightroom preset Oldendays, together with her Waterfront 1-texture.



To the image above I have added Kim's Melancholy-preset and the Waterfront 1-texture. 
The preset gives a bit hazy effect with lilac shades.


iPhone 5
As I was taking the table cloth down, I noticed how the shadow created a nice frame around the flower - so I took a quick snapshot with my iPhone.


... May the spots of sunshine find you this weekend,



Nina


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10 comments:

  1. This flower is simply stunning...I love each and every image! And I so agree with your quote...have a wonderful Sunday, Nina. :)

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  2. Beautiful, Nina...love that last shot...:)JP

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  3. Your post and photos are so calming. I'm glad I stopped by today.

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  4. So very lovely, Nina! That last shot is so amazing!

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  5. All lovely, but the first one is stunning! Strikingly simple composition, color, texture. I love the quote too!

    xoxo

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  6. I love the pull backs so you can see exactly what I am looking at so cool Nina, wonderful and cool

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  7. I love them all, but that last one gets my vote!

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  8. nice photography. thanks for sharing. I enjoy photography as well but don't have alot of equipment like you have and still try to be creative. I found you on Lisha "Give me Grace" community post today. Have a good week!

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