Project LV One – Day 64 – Catching Up.

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One of the things that you learn early when trying to make photographic images outdoors is that the light is the king.  Good light makes an ordinary shot better, poor light can destroy a great shot.  The quality of light doesn’t equate to the quantity but rather it’s quality.

Foer the past week I’ve been in on holiday Cornwall and we had wonderful weather and really bright light which usual spells disaster for any photographic endeavour.  However, the one app that seems to relish the bright light is the Pano App on the iPhone, that is you are able to capture a scene with even light falling on it.  Otherwise it is a lot of work in Photoshop to try and lick up the pieces.  Here is a selection of images made on a bright and sunny afternoon which sort of illustrate what I mean.

 

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Project LV One – Day 63 – Dawn

Up at dawn, sitting at the WiFi chair out in the yard with the dawn chorus… What could be better? Let’s just hope the M5 behaves. I’m going to miss Trerice.

Simon Marchini
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Project LV One – Day 62 – Bat Droppings

Batman never had this problem with his bat mobile…over the last few days my car has been covered by bat droppings. It turns out that the Elizabethan manor where I’ve been staying has a bat roost just a over where I park my car and every evening as they leave the roost the bats also leave a little reminder!

The break has been really great but I’ll write more on this when I get back to my usual abode. Today has been a catching up day and this has given some time just to draw and make rather outlandish oil pastel paintings… All great fun. I reaffirmed last night that I have no interest in making drawings or paintings of buildings – they were shocking.

So back home tomorrow and try and get past the Glastonbury turn on the motorway before the traffic gets too bad. Here’s hoping.

Simon Marchini
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Project LV One – Day 61 – Falmouth Harbour

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Project LV one – Day 60 – Brushes

As I am away at the moment I thought it might give me chance to get reacquainted with Brushes. At the moment there have been mixed results but I still have a few more days to Brush, pun intended, on my skills.

Simon Marchini
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Project LV one – Day 59 – Tremenheere and Cape Cornwall

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Project LV One – Day 58 – Eden project

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Project LV One – Day 57 – Tate St Ives

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Project LV one – Day 50 something

After a long but uneventful drive we got to see the sea at Newquay.

Simon Marchini
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Project LV One – Day 55 – Daenerys Targaryen

Daenerys Targaryen

Oh the struggles I had to make this image – and I’m still not sure it is right.  As any artist will know there reaches a point when you have say ‘…enough is enough..’ and I reached that point with this drawing.

 

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