My plans for this shoot are somewhat quite simple compared to other shoots I have conducted. As some of the shoots I wanted to involved powder paints and white clothes, I thought this might be somewhat difficult to do considering the amount of time I have left before the end of this project, and the level of mess I would have made. So instead, I decided to take on the technique using a different method, where I will photograph some white roses that I am in the process of dying rainbow colours. I have watched many tutorials and I set up the experiment yesterday afternoon, in a hope that some of the colour would have been absorbed by this morning - but this has failed. I did observe very slight colour droplets on the petals, so I am hoping that by the time I get home this evening, they will be much more colourful for me to shoot on another date.
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| An example of what I hope to achieve. |
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16/12/13:
The results of my experiment have so far not come through - the flowers essentially died after I'd kept them in the coloured water for a few days, which I don't understand as I followed the tutorial for it exactly, but sometimes these things happen. I think it might be to do with the way I cut the stems, as I used scissors rather than a sharp knife, which may have effected the small tubes which run on the inside of the stem which usually carry the water to the leaves and the petals. The petals picked up some colour, mostly the blue food colouring, but not enough to create the effect above that I was looking for. I am going to now buy another bunch of flowers, possibly not roses this time, to reduce costs, and I am going to experiment by painting the colour onto the petals, possibly with either food colouring again or watered-down water colour paints and shoot them together at home against a white background.
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19/12/13:
Today I went into the studio with the intention of shooting my 'coloured roses'. Only a few of my roses actually survived, and the ones I was able to bring in today were starting to wither, so I combined a lot of the shots with other white flowers to bulk up the framing of the images. I did attempt to dye the new white flowers, but I only bought them yesterday which meant they didn't fully absorb the colour like i wanted. My plan was to shoot the flowers in a variety of compositions using the macro lens to show the graduation in colours between the flowers. These are a few of my favourite edited images from the shoot. I particularly like the 2nd, 3rd and 4th images below purely because of the sheer boldness and contrast in colour - I am really pleased with the level of detail I have managed to capture and the patterns created by the 'blend' of the colours looks really eye-catching. This just shows that even though the dye had a very minimalistic effect on the roses, the results still looked effective and I could well try it again in the future with more colours.
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