Red's Kingdom

So not a pine forest (Klimt’s Tannenwald being the prompt for The Kick-About No.81), but a beech wood carpeted with bluebells. These photographs were produced by over-exposing a lot to introduce lots of white into the image and blow out the details to produce as impressionist a vibe as possible. The leaves on the trees themselves were innately pointillist because they were small, trembling and translucent and the bluebells themselves didn’t seem credible at all – all that consistent colour, and so much of it.

The moodier images were over-exposed to push the highlights of the leaves, which appeared to float like shoals of neon fish in the darker bits of the wood, and then the shadows were pulled back into the image for contrast.