4/365 Footlight Parade
Some of you have may remember one of the earlier images from the Baby Bop series using the baby shoes of the various Greene siblings. Today I was playing around with them some more-my first couple of ideas did not work so well-I need to think about how I can position them up without having to rely on a lot of ReTouch or Photoshop Fix to cover up spots. So instead I tried something a little more straightforward. It has been fun working with the shoes, especially since I know the people who once walked in them. There is a box full of these things, so there are endless possibilities I think in working with them.
I have also included a shot so you can see what the image looked like beforehand. I rely almost exclusively on natural light-I am very fortunate in that the room I work in has a large pair of windows with southern exposure.I am pretty low-tech when it comes to equipment–for me, the simpler the better. But I am realizing that I may have to investigate using reflectors possibly. One thing I did do differently is I cooled the image down considerably. I tend to favor warmer tones for a lot of my stuff.
Image taken with iPhone 5s and processed with Snapseed, ReTouch, Stackables
For today: Footlight Parade
Footlight Parade Before
Footlight Parade #1
Move the Chair 
Fascinating idea, cool job done there! :))
Thank you so much Arjun for stopping by-hope all is going well!
very nice!
Thank you Joan!
Love this idea and your editing.
It was a lot of fun Raewyn-a lot of little feet wore those shoes-
Wow, fancy having all those baby shoes! I had parents who, if it wasn’t being used, it went out. Lost lots of good stuff that way 😦
I love natural light too, it’s so easy but I have made a reflector that works well just by putting aluminium foil over a heavy sheet of cardboard. I use it for indoor flower shots so it is only about 15″ square but you could make it bigger easily. It’s a way to see if you really would use a reflector before buying. I still haven’t bought one as I don’t do enough indoors work. We don’t have your sort of winters. It’s an interesting shot by the way and I like the bleached look.
One of the big surprises in cleaning out my parents’ house was just how much stuff they did keep-it was just all nicely tucked away in boxes, so we found all kinds of things, but sadly now, no one is around to tell us much. I was surprised to find the shoes. I think my parents recycled as much as they could between six kids-we were all very close in age, so there were infants and toddlers bumbling about all the time. That is a great idea for the reflector-that I can do without too much pain 😉 Thank you for the suggestion Lee!
Six kids – it must have been a marvellous childhood all being close in age. It is sad when there is no longer anyone around to tell you a bit of the history of things.
It was pretty good and I am grateful to have grown up in a large family. But yes, so many questions now, with not so many answers.
On Tue, Jan 5, 2016 at 4:34 PM, Move the Chair wrote:
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Great to see the baby shoes make a return! Good to see the before and after as well. Nicely cropped.
Thanks! I have some other ideas too, so hopefully they will be popping in and out over the next couple of months. Definitely one of the great treasures that was hiding in the basement-
I really enjoyed the baby bop series. Rather cool name too! You have reminded me to check out stackables 😀
Yes do Julie-I will be very interested to see how images of Frog Pond look with that app-I think there might be some terrific possibilities given all the activity going on there 🙂 !
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