Research for these have been taken from the internet: World Gallery site.
Water Lily Pond by Claude Monet
This is one of the most famous paintings by one of the most famous impressionists. It has a graceful quality and is full of spots of colourful light, or the effects of light a he saw it. He did not focus so much on the objects within a scene but the light reflected from them to create great beauty. Monet painted with the light which is what Steve says I must learn to do.
painting by Monet
This is another angle of the same scene but introducing more vivid colours together with the continuence of the arch of the bridge round to make a follow on flattened arch shape with the coloured path. Thereby showing two different perspectives of the arch shape. He shows a river path to the right of the image and a normal path to the left, similar in design to my image further down in this blog.
The Artists Garden by Claude Monet
Bluebell Wood
shutter 1/160 aperture f4.0 iso 200 Focal L 80mm
I took this image (the best of 5) on a visit to Calke the other week when I realised I had better go quick to capture the bluebells before they were beyond their best. My sole intention of the visit was to just look for the bluebells and I only took 5 shots then went home. I tried to find the angle where it looked like they were in a wood, and they were in a way, as Calke grounds are made up of wooded areas, but the bells were only in short expanses here and there along a specific walk way. I walked up and down the path to determine which expanse would give a bigger impression in the frame, and which didn't have the clutter of fallen twigs amidst the blue carpet. It was dusk when I went so there wasn't a great deal of light about beneath the canopy of the trees, but there was some still coming through the trees. I set up the tripod quite low as I wanted to be low to the bells, to include the trees with their foliage, and not much sky. The reason I have included the image in this section, looking at the above 'Artists Garden' by Claude Monet, it appears to show a mass of similar coloured flowers with trees. Again that image is more impressionist than mine, but I am pleased with my attempt. I have enhanced the colours slightly in Photoshop and could always add more blur later if I wanted to.
I have been longing to take a bluebell wood scene since I started with a manual camera, taking inspiration from magazines like Digital SLR Photography (April 2011 issue), as well as impressionist paintings.
Bluebell Walk painting by Eric Forse
I came across the above image whilst searching the internet and included it because I loved the colours and it contains bluebells and trees. The red of the path is a good contrast line to the water line, both of which carry you through the scene. I would love to be able to capture a scene like this and to such quality.
Water Lilies Garden by Claude Monet
In each of these Monet scenes, his design includes water, trees and flowers ( exception being the above contains rushes instead of trees), and they are all vibrant nature images.
My monet
shutter 1/10 aperture f22 iso 100 Focal L 105mm
I took these 2 scenes (My monet at Calke and Low light at Matlock Bath) for my theme 1 of nature and focussing on the 'wood look' aspect within that, taking inspiration from Monet and Renoir painting scenes. A camera Canon EOS 5D has been used throughout these images with a 24-105mm lens but the top was taken using the tripod and bottom without. Therefore I was able to use a smaller aperture for the above one. To my mind My monet holds a slight impressionistic look which could be emphasised more in phtoshop. This is a crop of my original version which removed part of a large tree from the foreground left.
Even though I had the tripod with me during my Matlock visit 'Low light' was taken without, as we were walking from one place to another and I caught sight of this scene at the side of us. Liking the look, I quickly composed and fired this shot. I liked that the scene was going down at an angle, but the light was not really bright enough beneath the tree canopy so next time I would raise the iso setting. With that said, this was the low light level as I saw it at the time, which attracted me.
Low light
shutter 1/50 aperture f4.5 iso 200 Focal L 32mm
painting by Renoir
Going back to a Renoir picture I featured earlier in a blog:
I now have a more comparitive shot:-
I now have a green and yellow scene with a man walking his dog down a tree lined path to compare to the Renoir painting above. I took this shot on our day out at Matlock Bath (see previous blog), using Canon EOS 5D, 240105mm lens and a tripod.
The man is walking in the other direction however in Renoir's painting, but as it is only an impression this is ok, though in my scene he plays a small part in comparison to being the main subject in Renoir's. I have enriched the colours somewhat over the top, in an attempt to achieve the bright impressionistic look of a painting.
The water shows reflective greens and yellows as does that of Renoir's. My image is too busy though in that it has 2 paths, one of stone and that of the river and this, as Steve says, makes the eye wonder where it should focus. I could crop to just include either path scene, but now I understand that I tend to do this, next time I would be more aware not to. Either half of my scene would make a nature shot, I would probably favour the water side as being the more interesting. I did take another image from this same view point which shows more of the water side.
Both compositions follow the rule of thirds with the trees and the placement of the man and both show lines to lead the eye through the scene (paths and water), shape and pattern, and foremost are a focus on strong colour.
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Hi
ReplyDeleteWe look at how best to post produce your work now, we will try a variety of approaches and filters to make you work look like the art that you have researched. Then we can compare them to these works of art to see how you have improved your photography.
Steve