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Lindsey Post's fine art portraits
Creative, colourful, pure and sometimes slightly dreamy, that's how we'd describe Lindsey Post's style. By combining photography with the painting methods of the old masters, she creates the most extraordinary pieces for your wall.
From artist to photographer
Lindsey began her career as an artist many years ago. She made lots of murals and illustrations, until the digital world became increasingly prominent. Lindsey retrained as a graphic designer and, while designing birthday cards, stumbled into photography. The more she immersed herself in photography, the more fun it became. Lindsey left her graphic design work, illustrating and painting behind, and transitioned into photography. She's now been doing photoshoots and reportage photography for over ten years and she has a successful shop on Art Heroes.
Time for her own project
When everything came to a standstill during the first COVID lockdown, there was suddenly time for Lindsey to pursue her own project: fine art photography. "What I do is I link my photography back to old paintings, using the lighting of the old masters. It's lovely to combine these two things," says Lindsey.
The perfect picture
At its most basic level, every photo starts with a thought. By depicting this thought on a mood board, Lindsey makes choices about the use of colour, clothing and accessories. Once the idea is fully developed, Lindsey takes the photo. This is then extensively post-processed: "In the post-processing phase, I'm a terrible perfectionist. Every detail has to be right. At this point, I use colour and contrast to create the right mood." Only when everything in the picture is right and the details harmonise correctly, is Lindsey's photo really finished.
Lindsey's favourite
Her absolute favourite from her own Art Heroes collection, is the fine art portrait of the girl with the lamb. It's a portrait that takes you back in time. Lindsey: "It radiates peace and it has this purity. It makes you curious about the girl in the photo". An interesting detail is that the photo for this portrait was taken without the lamb. Lindsey added the lamb later during the image processing phase. By matching the colours, lighting and shadows of the two photos perfectly, you end up with an image that works.
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