Hi, I'm Andrea, and I'm interested in creatures and plants both wild and tamed, and people of all sorts. I only use a compact digital camera ,as I love being able to get it into a back pocket, and not have to cart heavy kit about. I carry a Panasonic Lumix TZ series, binoculars and a hand lens almost everywhere.Most of my outings are with the dogs so I only use point and shoot.
I am getting the hang of Photoshop, thanks to some very kind folk on RR!Â
I have a wildlife garden in Bournemouth, Dorset, in the UK, and spend a lot of time there . I retired from teaching art to teenagers a while ago.
I'm now getting some good results with my digi compacts; it took me a while to make the switch from my old film camera, an 1960 ish Pentax Spotmatic, but the mistakes are much cheaper! Â
I have 4 lodgers, 3 dogs and a parrot who, as at 2017, I have had 40 years.
I has so far had 19 dogs, mostly rescues.
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Comments (21)
Celart
Great still life
jayfar
I can sniff it from here !! Great shot.
aksirp
...was not the reaction you wanted;-) happens to me sometimes with citrus aromatic... excellent postwork!
helanker
A shame, when you liked it, Andrea. But good you have friends. who liked it and didnt have such reactions :)
jendellas
Like the postwork.
Wolfmanw
Beautiful capture before and after post work
sandra46
GREAT WORK
Faemike55
Great postwork
goodoleboy
Awesome in its content, Andrea. Aqua di Roma = Water of Rome.
jocko500
lovely
Mark-David-Rogers
Two fine captures, I like the post work on this piece. It's interesting how our bodies react to certain things.. I can eat most nuts but if I ate half brazil nut I would be brown bread in 30 minutes. :-(
angora
PW enhances the bottles, wow!!
wysiwig
Well you've certainly created a liquid atmosphere with this most excellent post work. Fits the name very well.
kgb224
Amazing capture Andrea. God bless.
kaward
Well composed and exciting image with the background effect. Shame it had such an effect on you!
MrsRatbag
Lovely setup and postwork!
three_grrr
I thought I would like the postworked image better, but in this case the background of the un-postworked one almost looks lightly postworked too, and I like them both! Citrusy scented? I would like that. I'm not much of a perfume person, perfume and camping doesn't work too well, bugs seem to be attracted to perfumey people, grins.
Rhanagaz
Excellent capture and postwork to present this, Andrea. :o)
danapommet
I like the simple bottle in both versions!
blondeblurr
Such a classy looking design, very romanesque ! - pity about the outcome on you ? fine postwork Andrea, BB
anahata.c
I had a friend who had skin reactions to Chanel No. 5, and was ribbed about it forever (by her female friends) as if it proved that she was born with "charlatan genes" and therefore couldn't get classy if she wanted to. (I read that Coco Chanel went through a bunch of her friend's fragrances, and said, "I'll take the fifth!" Which made me wonder, what was No. 36? The La Brea Tar Pits? I wanna see the rejects, I wanna see No's 40 thru 109.) Anyway, you took the original shot and made a big looming reflection-cavern from it. Love it. There's your edge work again, with all those topographical lines leading us to the innermost 'peaks', which, in some cases, are hot white. It looks like you left the bottles mostly untouched---I see some postwork, but it's subtle---but with the reflections, you went to town, breaking-up the surroundings into continents and reefs; and I always love your color schemes: In clothing, they often call this "tonal" (staying in the range of a single hue); but here you have several tonal ranges---some grayish blues, some olive-grays and greens, and you got some pink in there too (!). Love it. It looms. Beautiful variation on your endlessly creative perfume shots. (I'm tellin' ya, you could make a book of these, and I'd be your first customer. I just love this series.)