This month, the theme for our Share Six blog circle is {Floral}. Since the arrival of my Lensbaby Velvet 85 and Omni Colour Expansion pack in the Spring, I’ve been obsessing over flowers. All the flowers!
Thanks for joining us again this month. Don’t forget, post your {floral} images on our Facebook page SHARE SIX or to our Instagram gallery by using #sharesix_floral. A new theme will be posted on 6th September.
Up next in our blog circle is my lovely friend and talented photographer, Sharleen of Sharleen Stuart Photography. See Sharleen’s images and be sure to leave her some love!
This month Share Six is focusing on one of my favourite compositional tools, {negative space}.
Negative space in art – photography or indeed any other art form – is often as important as positive space in terms of composition. Creatively, we can find a balance between positive space (the subject) and the negative space (the space surrounding the subject). Too much positive space and the image can feel cluttered, whereas negative space give the viewer space and time for their eyes to breathe. Pushing negative space to an extreme allows us to create a minimalist feel and draw attention to the subject in a more dramatic way.
Feeling reflective, I decided to start by looking back at my archives. Here are just a few of my recent (and not-so-recent) favourites where negative space has made for a more dramatic composition:
This final image was taken just a few days ago. It is half term in England – a week off school during the summer term – and we went camping in South Wales. This trip was booked over 18 months ago for last year but had been postponed due to the pandemic. This is the view of Three Cliffs Bay from our campsite on the Gower Peninsula. It was so worth the wait!
Thanks for joining us again this month. Don’t forget, post your {negative space} images on our Facebook page SHARE SIX or to our Instagram gallery by using #sharesix_negativespace. A new theme will be posted on 6th July.
Up next in our blog circle is my lovely friend and extremely talented photographer, Janet Douglas. Click here to see her images and be sure to leave her some love!
The theme for May’s Share Six Blog Circle is {Light Inspired}. As photographers, we are always searching for inspiration, ways to create something new or beat our way out of a rut. Ultimately that inspiration often from the light that surrounds our subject.
The past few weeks I’ve been (massively) inspired by a new lens – the Lensbaby Velvet 85 – and a new set of Lensbaby Omni Filters – the colour expansion pack. The colour crystal omni wands create and manipulate light in a creative, extraordinary and incredibly inspiring way, so for me these images are the epitome of {Light Inspired}.
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Up next in our blog circle is my lovely friend and extremely talented photographer, Janet Douglas. Click here to see her images and be sure to leave her some love!
This month’s Share Six theme is {growth}, and I couldn’t think of a more perfect theme for the beginning of Spring. All around us new life is springing into action. Bulbs are coming into bloom and trees are in blossom.
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Up next in our blog circle is my lovely friend and extremely talented photographer, It’s Still Life Photography by Elizabeth Willson. Click here to see her images and be sure to leave her some love!
The theme for this month’s Share Six Blog Circle is {Frozen}. Fortunately, here in Hampshire – southern England – we’ve not been quite as frozen as some of my Share Six colleagues. However, when we did have snow and ice earlier in the year, you can be sure I photographed it!
I absolutely adore using the Lensbaby Edge 80 whenever it snows. Perhaps that’s because when I first got the lens – my very first Lensbaby – I did a 30 Day change with it. I took a photo with it every single day. It was mid-winter, we were living in Massachusetts and we spent the whole month of January surrounded by multiple feet of snow. But that nostalgia aside, I love the multi-dimensional focal plan you can use with the Lensbaby Edge optics, as it really helps to emphasise being surrounded by falling snowflakes. With an Edge optic, you see depth, not just a single flat focal plane.
That’s why, when we woke up to snow one January morning and before anyone else was ready to be outside, I reached straight for my Edge 80 without even a second thought.
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I’m throwing in a few extra this month too, just for fun. Once the rest of the family were ready to head outside I switched to my Canon 24-70 2.8L for weather sealed versatility and off we went!
Thanks for joining us again this month. Don’t forget, post your {frozen} images on our Facebook page SHARE SIX or to our Instagram gallery by using #sharesix_frozen. A new theme will be posted on 6th April.
Up next in our blog circle is my lovely friend and extremely talented photographer, Michèle Tremblay. Click here to see her images and be sure to leave her some love!
