A journey of photographic adventure, Two Views was born by two friends having a blast and learning from each other on a photo shoot in the autumn sunshine, asking the question “How can we continue to push our photographic boundaries in terms of technical knowledge, new challenges and creativity and have fun at the same time?” The answer we came up with was to set ourselves a project every two weeks, and then publish the results together. Two Views of the same subject / idea or technical approach. By the end of this year we will have covered 26 subjects and produced at least 50+ awesome photographs, and have learned a huge amount along the way! We’d love your comments, critiques and ideas, and if you want to “play along” too, please do let us have your shots by links in the comments sections! TJ & The Brunette

Friday, 2 December 2011

Red by The Blonde





I knew I wanted to do something more "studio" for Red, after being on location for the first three assignments, and had come up with loads of ideas, of which I only actually got round to trying two! So maybe we will have to have another Red version 2.0 at some point! 


The shot I chose is actually a recreation of one I shot many years ago at photography college, easier then as I had an entire studio lighting rig to play with! I wanted to capture a close up of bubbles in a drink with something red in there for interest (and to meet the assignment of course!) You can see the unedited version on the far left of the film strip, all I did was crop in and up contrast slightly in editing to make the black background very black and reduce the slight reflection on the glass, so that the finished result is quite abstract. The second mini photo shows my "studio" ! Of course I used a tripod, and fill in flash to freeze the bubble movement and create a nice "lift" to the bubbles, but I also maximised natural window light from the left hand side and a reflector on the right to bounce light back in. 


The next two were a red lipstick idea I was playing with, I quite like the "long hair" one, it's a little unusual and intriguing not to see the eyes of a subject and leaves you wanting more!
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  1. tim2 December 2011 at 16:28

    I absolutely love the contrast of the red straw and bubbles. Wish I had such vision!

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