Trudy Kepke

Trudy Kepke first started out with her creative side being art, painting in watercolour and acrylics. Since then Trudy has taken up photography which allowed her to go out into the countryside and capture beautiful images. Trudy often found something was missing with the photographs she had taken, they needed Trudy’s own interpretation adding to the them. Trudy started making composites out of her photographs. Composite photography is simply the blending of two or more images to create one final image. While this definition makes compositing sound quick and easy, its anything but, often requiring several hours of photography and photoshop work to complete the final piece. Trudy takes photographs of textures and colours, blending colours together to apply over her photograph to make them appear more painterly. Learning in this way taught her how to use the camera better. But it also taught Trudy about composition, colour, light, and how to treat photography like art. Instead of taking a picture, create a picture. That’s exactly what Trudy does and what she enjoys so much.