This week I discovered photos I haven’t looked at for years. The top one is an example taken in Malta nearly 3 years ago and ‘gathering dust’ in the archives. Back then I didn’t have Lightroom. so wow – what I can now do to these photos. I hope Kim doesn’t mind as this was a piece of ‘homework’ from Be Still. I actually used an idea from a good few years ago now that Kim posted in one of her classes about creating a colour board.
Her prompt made me think of warm sunny days in hot places, sitting in the shade with a cold drink, wandering through little narrow lanes never really knowing where you would end up. I created a colour board which made me think of a magazine layout before publication.
Medina, Malta, June 2012
The plants above the models prompted me to look through my archives and find this image of wild roses past their best but still beautiful…
Taunton October 2014
I love the colour splashes on these. Beautiful!
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Nothing like a beautiful European city lane that can’t make your heart pitter patter, so lovey. Yeah I would think of this place also as inspiration. And oh my that rose is pure heaven. So gorgeous Viv.
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Oh how I would love to walk down that lane in Malta! It is a beautiful image. I have been taking old photographs I had before Lightroom and ‘fixing’ them too. Lightroom changes everything!
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Now that’s a great find, a pleasant surprise to find something you already had….and how beautiful!
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Gorgeous photos Viv, and I love colour boards so much!
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I think I’d like to be in Malta about now!
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Lovely color boards.
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Love those colors in the first shot. I remember your rose photo. So luscious.
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The photos are beautiful by themselves but I love the whimsical addition of the color splashes. That first photo looks so warm and inviting right now as I sit in my snug home, looking out at the frozen tundra outside my window, with single digit temps in the air. Yes, bring on a warm, sunny place.
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Viv… oh my goodness… BRILLIANT… love this all so much… beautiful … love how you took the spark and created such lovely art… and this makes me wanna make a colour board again. : )
lovely… happy weekend… xo
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Malta looks to be a beautiful place. I’d love to walk down that street and see where is leads…
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I love your photos – so warm looking, and they really do capture the flavor of that “inspiration” spread. I also love your color board treatment. I’ve seen them done before but with the color swatches either circles or rectangles. I’d love to know how you made those lovely “brushstrokes” of color.
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Super photos, Viv. The splashes of colour from your colour board accentuate the photos, and I found my eye trying to match where they’d come from, which made me look longer and harder at the photos. This must be a great technique for magazine editors/ advertisers who want to get people to linger longer over their promotional images. All the best, Bonny
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oh how pretty to add the splash of color – interesting how it draws your attention to that color and intensifies it. beautiful!
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Absolutely stunning.
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