“Frozen Leaf.”

I got the idea for this image through an article I had cut out and kept in one of my many inspiration files. However it is several months ago since I froze this leaf and my wife has asked me several times what I was doing with this leaf in the freezer? Well, today was the day. I finally set out to photograph it.

I had made a few snap shots on my way back from picking up my new Polaroid SX-70 at the post office. I had three parcels waiting for me at the post office today. One was the camera, and the two others were several packs of Polaroid 600 film which I put in the fridge straight away with my other film stock. I will get in trouble for this as I’m now claiming about 40% of the top shelf in the fridge for film as you can see here:

Oh well…

I wasn’t particularly pleased with the snap shots I made on my way back from the post office. I think I was too excited to get back home and play with the Polaroid SX-70. When I got home I unpacked my parcels and started experimenting with a still life of a bowl of fruit using the Polaroid SX-70. I just wanted to figure out how it worked although I’m still waiting for my neutral density filters which will allow me to use the faster (and cheaper, errrrh I mean less expensive) Polaroid 600 film without battling overexposure on most images.

It is one sleek camera, the design is simply outstanding. It is just a beautiful camera which I’m really pleased I have bought. Sorry, I’m getting side tracked here. Anyway, so I proceeded to also make some snap shots of the still life set-up which turned out allright, but still not quite what I wanted.

Then I remembered the leaf in the freezer and proceeded to set things up on the kitchen counter. I had to block out any direct artifical light as it glared on the ice and the leaf itself, so I shaded the frozen leaf with some folded pieces of white paper and put the camera on a tripod and shot 15 different exposures from above (it was through this process I figured things out with the papers etc. as I went along).

The end result is what you see above. I processed the image entirely in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.

In total I made 40 images today.

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