Pulling back the curtain
I am often out in the studio a few minutes after six in the morning. These days, I'm getting out of bed long before the minute hand rotates to the top of the clock. My first cup of coffee is usually made and I'm unlocking the shop a few minutes later. I often have things to do - left over tasks from the day before. As an example, today I started my day by photographing my latest gnome painting. "Three Little Gnomes Sitting in the Tree..." is a concept that I noodled on paper, several times, while passing the hours at the Saskatoon Farm Christmas Market. I placed the painting on the photography wall and took three different photos of it, each with a different shutter speed. This give me enough variety on the editing side. The SD card comes out of the camera and into a little adaptor that connects to my laptop. I spend a number of minutes editing the best of the three shots and then upload the finished image to my archival site and to our Birdsong Studios web shop. ...
