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Reading Jane Austen 2

nobody@flickr.com (GlixPix) — Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:47:17 -0700

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Again, my tribute to the incredible artistry of my favorite author: Jane Austen!

How I wish that she had a longer and more prolific career!

This photo taken with the Canon 5D Mk II using the Canon 50mm f2.5 Macro lens, 1/1/2sec. @ f22. Lighting: Ascor QC1000 Studio Stobe system using diffused quartz modeling lights, 1 head at 800watts in Large softbox upper left front side with large white card reflector on right side with 200watt diffused dish pointed into card reflector and spilling onto set in order to soften shadows and add highlights to the ink-well and pen stand.

Processed using Camera Raw, Photoshop CS5, Topaz ReMask3, Topaz Adjust 5, and FastStone Editor.

This photo is © copyright-registered material and cannot be used for any purpose without the express written permission of the copyright holder, Kevin D. Renz!

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Reading Jane Austen 1

nobody@flickr.com (GlixPix) — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:15:19 -0700

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I, for one, read Jane Austen's work over and over. When I read Jane Austen, I generally read from paper-bound books as they are lighter and easier to handle than the fine collection you see here.

I believe one cannot get enough Jane Austen. I wish that she left a greater body of work as her legacy to literature. I feel it to be a terrible waste that her writing career was such a relatively short one. But what a joy that she wrote what she did, that her works live on today, and with such tremendous popularity!

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

So begins Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, perhaps my most favorite, certainly, of all her works, and possibly of all books I have read in my life.

This photograph is my tribute to her wonderful art, literature, and memory. . .

The photograph is of my Illustrated, leather bound, collector's edition from The Easton Press of Nowalk, CT. The paperbacks in the background are "What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew," by Daniel Pool, "The Oxford Illustrated Jane Austen - Minor Works," R.W. Chapman, "Letters From Pemberley - The First Years," by Jane Dawkins, "An Unequal Marriage, or Pride and Prejudice - Twenty Years Later" by Emma Tenant, and "Pemberley, or Pride and Prejudice Continued" by Emma Tenant.

This photo taken with the Canon 5D Mk II using the Canon 50mm f2.5 Macro lens, 1/1 sec. @ f22. Lighting: Ascor QC1000 Studio Stobe system using diffused quartz modeling lights, 1 head at 800watts in Large softbox upper left front side with large white card reflector on right side with 200watt diffused dish pointed into card reflector to soften shadows and add highlights to the gold pages of the books.

Processed using Camera Raw, Photoshop CS5, Topaz ReMask3, Topaz Adjust 5, and FastStone Editor.

Many thanks to SkeletalMess for the kind and generous sharing of his wonderful textures. Please visit Jerry's work at: www.flickr.com/photos/skeletalmess/

This photo is © copyright-registered material and cannot be used for any purpose without the express written permission of the copyright holder, Kevin D. Renz!

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The Postcard from Santa Fe (Explored)

nobody@flickr.com (GlixPix) — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 20:29:42 -0800

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The Postcard: A nostalgic, and somewhat intimate, look at travel and discovery during the mid-40's in the U.S.

The postcard reads:

My Dearest Carson;
Currently resting in my Great Aunt K's cozy guestroom
after a hectic day's sight-seeing.

I've discovered so many treasures. Not the least of which is a glorious
and wonderful photographer by the name of Ray Belcher!

This (on the reverse) is one of his images! Splendid! Is it not?

Lovingly, Anastasia

The pen is a 1947 Parker Vacumatic Blue-Diamond Standard fountain pen in blue cellulite.

The postcards, and images on these cards are through the courtesy of Ray Belcher, photographer, of Santa Fe, NM. The visible photograph is entitled "Path Lightning" by Ray Belcher.

Chronologically, Ray, born in 1944, was not a practicing photographer at the time I have depicted here. He is very much alive and practicing today.

Single exposure using multiple heads and hard lighting with only slight diffusion on my Ascor QC1000 studio strobe setup. This shot was done using the quartz modeling lights of that system.

Light placement: Camera Left, high above and slightly in back of the subject to bring out the detail in books, postcard, pen. Supplemental white foam-core reflector on camera right to add light to tea pot and cup. Diffused head into foam core board above set to give modeling and shape to the nib of the pen and the top and glass of the inkwell. Fill-in light from right of camera with slight diffusion. Light values: Main - 400watts, Fill - 200watts Reflector card light - 200watts.

Olympus E-30 camera mounted with Zuiko 12-60mm f2.8lens. 23mm equivalent. ISO 100. Exp. 1 sec @f16.

Processed using Adobe Photoshop CS5, Topaz Adjust5, and FastStone editor.

Texture courtesy of Skeletal Mess. Thank you so much Ray Belcher and Skeletal Mess for the use of your creativity in my own work. Please visit Jerry's work at: www.flickr.com/photos/skeletalmess/

This photo is copyright-registered material and cannot be used for any purpose without the express written permission of the copyright holder, Kevin D. Renz!

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