All the still life images of the Arrangement series were mostly taken within the “home studio” which consisted of natural light from a window and a black foam core background. The same black foam core was also used out in the field when photographing individual flowers. The image above used an ink-jet print crafted for the purpose to be a pastel presence behind the subject. The tree trunks were a combination of several images with black foam core placed along the edge of the trunks at various locations to be combined so the entire background was covered.
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Most of the “studio” still life work below was a simple process of placing a subject on a granite kitchen countertop with a piece of black foam core behind, and white foam core on the right side to reflect the light from an opposite window. A few subjects, such as the Expired Christmas Cactus above, were laid flat on a piece of black foam core using the same window light and reflector. All very simple and straight forward. Only the red onion was a bit more complicated, being lit from below as it lay on a piece of glass covered by a black sheet of paper having a hole cut out slightly smaller than the onion itself.
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