Week 9 - Metal - Solarina~Lucy Nuzum & the melody censor

Top: Solarina~Lucy Nuzum
Bottom: the melody censor

tmc: Last week completely got away from both Lucy and I, so we are late with our week 9 submission. Our given theme was Metal.

The first thing that came to my mind was precious metals, and how the value of metal has been used as currency throughout history. I had planned to use my coin collection to depict this; alas, my coins were still packed away in boxes so I had to come up with an alternate idea. So I used the glitz and glamour of metal and worked with the refective quality, which I think works really well with fashion shot of Lucy's.

Week 4 - Lucy and MaryElise - Time

Lucy - Right
MaryElise - Left


MaryElise - For Week 4 of the project, I was paired with the lovely Lucy (Solarina). We both went with imagery of a clock, without any prior discussion of how we were going to create our time theme. I love how the blue in her eye compliments the blue of the ocean and sky.

Week 3 - Flare - Solarina & Ligeia

Left: Solarina
Right: Ligeia

Lucy and I didn't discuss a lot about this week's shot. We only decide that it will be in colour and square format. Flare was such a difficult thing to achive these rainy days but we managed to do a beautiful dyptich. I only intensified the light of my shot because hers was really sunny :) At first, the dyptich was switched but Lucy suggested to change it and here you have the results. Enjoy it!

Week 1 - Food - MMaeb & Solarina~Lucy Nuzum

Lucy and I were at a bit of loss, initially, in terms of how to approach the theme of food - especially under tight time constraints. But the creativity started flowing for me as soon as I started thinking about the preparation of food, rather than food itself. I photographed various baking bits and bobs collected over the years, and sent some variations to Lucy. She then proposed the combination above, adding the lovely image of her lips to the mix. All that remained was for me to enhance the saturation of her lip colour slightly to tie the colour values together a bit more. We're not sure it's a perfect combination, but we're both pleased that we managed to pull this together in the end.