still life photoshoot

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One of my contact sheets – using the P and X tools to pick my best and worst images and to filter them.

Best Images

After selecting my best images, I edited them in Lightroom classic.

Adding contrast, decreasing exposure, adding vibrance and grain as well as adding vignette.

Adding contrast and vibrance, cropping and decreasing offset

Adding vibrance, warming filter and adding contrast

Adding highlights, blacks and adding exposure and slight grain.

Adding warmth, increasing temperature and grain – decreasing exposure

Adding warmth and highlights

My vanitas images

My images are influenced by the photographer Paulette Tavormina. Paulette Tavormina is a an american still life photographer who lives and works in the city of New York. She spends lots of her time in the city’s rich markets, searching for the beautiful florals that add delicate character to her still life photographs. Paulette is heavily inspired by 17th century Still life painters: Giovanna Garzoni, Francisco de Zurbaran, and Adriaen Coorte. She particularly takes inspiration from Zurbaran’s use of mysterious and dramatic light, Coorte’s unique placement of objects, and Garzoni’s clever compositions and rich colour palette.

Some of Paulette’s images
My best Images from my vanitas shoot.

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