Preserving fall leaves HELP
I have some trees around me that yearly produce beautiful leaves. Last year, I picked them up as I found them in my yard, and then I wanted to photograph them. I was frustrated because the leaves did not maintain their shape over time; they curled as they dried out even more. The richness of the colors faded too. There's got to be a way to spray them with something to preserve the shape and color that drew my eye to choose them, and then I can go back and arrange and rearrange and shoot them to my heart's content.
Any ideas? My belief has always been that if I can think it, it can be done. LJP |
I have pressed leaves in between waxed paper for botany classes.
This is an article that gives various suggestions: http://gardening.about.com/od/crafts...rve_Leaves.htm If you are really ambitious there is a permanent way to embed them in resin, called Envirotex lite. http://www.save-on-crafts.com/enpr.html |
Thanks for the link Mrs. D. I want to preserve the leaves with some curl and bend to them; makes for more interesting pictures. I know, I didn't specify that in my question. Looks to me like glycerin or something like it will do what I want.
LJ |
wax paper
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OK. Now I get it! I was wondering if leaving a 'bubble' area around the leaves or, in other words, ironing around and away from the leaves letting them in as natural a state as possible would help?
Maybe this is dumb...but I too believe that 'if you can think /have an idea, you can probably find a way'. You said it better and I loved what you said. That was so great. Thanks. |
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