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Party of Skulls

March 10, 2025 by Marilyn Botta Leave a Comment

 


I decided to create an image with skulls being the stars. I came across an unusual gold skull and decided to add it to the other two skulls I have. To enhance the eerie quality of this composition, I added a dark orange texture. For a more dramatic effect I added several different sized lit candles. I had an old child’s hat that fit perfectly on the gold skull’s head.

Filed Under: Still Life Photography Tagged With: abstract, arrangement, atmosphere, background, bone, burn, burning, candle, candlelight, candles, cranium, creepy, curse, dark, dark orange background, dead, death, demon, evil, exorcism, fantasy, flame, gold skull, green cloth, greencandle, hat, head, horror, human skull, macabre, monster, occult, occultism, october, ominous, paranormal, party, ritual, scary, skeleton, skull, skull vector, spooky, sugar skull, tan and brown candle, teeth, warm lighting, wicca, witch, witchcraft

Green Hat, Yellow Lilies, and Chess

May 31, 2024 by Marilyn Botta Leave a Comment

 


I love putting together lots of different props to create a cohesive composition. I gathered a brown candle, green hat, vases, a chess piece and yellow lilies. Who would think that these unrelated items could come together to form a masterpiece. My composition was arranged on a muslim cloth featuring yellow lilies in a terracotta vase. I positioned a green fedora hat, between two vases containing the flowers. An ornate candlestick holder holds the brown lit candle. The objects are arranged on a textured surface against a muted backdrop, creating a serene and balanced scene. The two images are different in that they both have different background colors.

Filed Under: Still Life Photography Tagged With: background, beautiful, blooming, brown candle, bud, candlestick holder, ceramic vase, chess piece, composition, flame, flora, floral, flower, flowers, green, green fedora hat, green hat, green vase, hat, king chess piece, leaves, lilies, lily, lit candle, may lilies, muted backdrop, orange background, patterned cloth, petal, Photo, pretty, serene scene, smoke, stem, still life, terracotta vase, texture, textured background, textured surface, vase, yellow, yellow lilies

Chess, Hat, and Flowers

May 27, 2024 by Marilyn Botta Leave a Comment


While shopping for interesting items to use for s still life, I came upon a pretty green candle and a black chess piece–a king. I decided to create a magical fantasy. I placed a green spherical ceramic vase, a black chess piece, a green hat, and green patterned cloth on a tan drop cloth which I used as a table cloth. I added some white daisies to the vase. I then incorporated a green glass vase with pink blooming lilies, and a green lit candle on a bronze candle holder. My theme was the color green and various complementary colors. This arrangement was photographed against a white backdrop in my studio. I added a brownish, orange texture during editing. The lighting is soft and subdued.

Filed Under: Still Life Photography Tagged With: art, beautiful, beauty, black chess piece, candle holder, ceramic vase, chess, chess piece, cloth, daisies, decor, decorative sphere, flame, floral, flower, flowers, glass vase, gorgeous candle, green candle, green hat, green vase, hat, piece, pink lilies, plant, still life, texture background, vintage, white flowers

Susan

March 14, 2022 by Marilyn Botta Leave a Comment

I did a photo shoot of my friend, Susan. She came with all kinds of different props such as a flowered wreath for her hair. I supplied the large hat. It was a fun day. I had some beautiful chrysanthemums that added some beauty to the shoot. She also brought her camera which I photographed in low key. All other pictures were shot against a white backdrop and I added textures in Photoshop post processing.




Filed Under: Portraits Tagged With: backdrop, beauty, chrysanthemums, flowered wreath, hat, low key, photo shoot, Photoshop, post processing, props, textures, wreath

Joyce Portraits and Identity Crisis 2020

April 4, 2020 by Marilyn Botta Leave a Comment

I had an assignment for Chicks that Click photo group to come up with an image representing Identity Crisis. I enlisted my friend Joyce who is a wonderful model and had her pose gazing into a mirror. I did this in my studio upstairs and put the soft box with my AD200 strobe light on the left side with a grid over the box. This was done to achieve a low key effect. In editing I added both a blue texture to the mirror and then I added a shattered glass brush over it.










I like the effect–it looks like an identity crisis to me. Then Joyce wanted some portraits too. She is a great model and doesn’t require too much instruction on posing.

 

Filed Under: Portraits Tagged With: AD200, blue, brown hat, grid, hat, identity crisis, low key, mirror, model, Portraits, posing, PS brush, reflection, shattered glass, soft box, strobe light, studio, texture, tipping hat

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