Showing posts with label paint. Show all posts
Showing posts with label paint. Show all posts

Saturday, 27 November 2010

330: Trickly Peace


Settings: f/5.6, 1/100, ISO 400, DA 16-45 (16mm.)

Thursday, 28 January 2010

028: Red, Green & Blue

These acrylic paints are in the colours we would usually associate with the additive primary colours, but here they are displayed as subtractive ones. (Although only at the origin of the paint blobs - we see them now as a collection of RGB pixels.) The green doesn't look particularly bright, but it's just the pigment mixture in the paint.
The red doesn't look so neat because it was thicker than the others and took a bit of 'styling' to make it's blob look more like the other blobs. Now the edges look a bit wet, but at least it's the most blurred. The blue looks neatest, so that's good that it's in focus. It's got a nice gloss to it.
Shot at f/8, 1/180 sec. ISO 100, low power flash, 27mm extensions, also a slight crop and neatening.

Friday, 22 January 2010

022: Bright Paint Pots

A colourful collection of small paint pots lie in a drawer, waiting for their crusty lids to be prized off again one day. Some of them may now be too dried up to be of use again, but their bright tops still attract my eye when I open the drawer.
Shown here are a collection of the more vivid ones, most of the others being dark, fleshy or earthy military-type tones. (I'm sure some of them are getting on for fifteen years old.) I took several tries at this photo before I was satisfied, the reasons ranging from the exposure to the position of the pots. I quite like the result, although I would have preferred to have a better selection of bright colours to use. But that's my fault for not buying them, I guess.
f/8, 1/180 sec. ISO 100, low power flash, 50mm M42 & 8mm extension ring.