Sharon Greenaway

Tangled Web

Tangled Web 2013

Sometimes I can get overwhelmed with all the latest photographic technology that is constantly thrown up in magazines, both print and on line.

As photography is all about light, fancy speed lights, studio lights, lighting diffusers and lighting shapers are often pushed as the answer to improving our photographic skills.

But in keeping with the K.I.SS. principle often it is the simplest thing that can work well.

In this image of a spider (if you can identify it I would appreciate it) I grabbed my dslr, connected my macro lens which consists of an older Sigma 28-90 mm film lens fitted with three macro filters and then quickly looked around for a light. My first thought was a speed light, but then my eyes set upon a couple of small silver reflectors (courtesy of two foil freezer containers) and so armed with this far-from-hi-tech piece of lighting equipment I hurried outside to capture this creature insitu.

The reflectors turned out to be the perfect size to ease around the foliage of the olive tree where this spider was repairing her web. I was able to direct the sunlight under and over the spider until I got the shots I needed.

I must remember to grab them when I go out to capture the Blue banded bees that visit here.

Solo show

I have forgotten just how much work goes into a Solo Show. Between Bill and I we are getting there, just labels, artist statement and list of works to go!

Microcosm almost there…

Only a few days to go before ‘Microcosm’ is installed at the iconic Bendigo Pottery. We have framed all the images and I look forward to feedback from people once they see them. The images have been created from found objects from our place in Bendigo.
I use a combination of traditional digital photography as well as a technique I developed following my passion of working in the wet lab at uni. This technique I call Digital Photograms and creates images that are strikingly beautiful and somewhat mysterious.