Timothy Armes' blog

I’ve just finished shooting some promotional images for local artisan Cécile Lienhard, so I thought I’d share some of the experience.

Cécile didn’t give me a remit, so I was free to do anything that I felt was appropriate. My main consideration was that her web site is a dark grey, so it was important that the images would marry well with this colour scheme.

I decided that I really wanted to capture her distinctive style rather than document the individual pieces themselves, that way she could continue to use the images to sell herself even once the particular pieces that she had passed on to me had been sold.

I started working with the clock, and after playing a little I thought that it would be best explored as a triptych.  This decision then lead me to on to create each of the final images as a composition of photos.  This sort of things often happens – I start out without any ideas in particular, and then once I actually take some photos the ideas come together.

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