This picture goes way back. I took it using my first digital camera. I was learning to use Photoshop (version 2.0 I think) and exploring special effects. I was still working full-time … and growing petunias!
This is posterized and I’ve always loved the texture.
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Categories: #Flowers, #Photography
SERENDIPITY: SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 
I can almost feel the texture at the tips of my fingers. Like fabric under the skin. Bravo for this great shot. Even from way back.
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I think that’s what I like about it too. It felt like velvet and looks like velvet. Special effects are 50% software, 50% magic 🙂
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I loved posterize too. It really makes the flower pop. It is like magic, watching the different affects changing the photo. 😀
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And it’s fun, too 🙂
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Very striking.
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Thanks! Hoping to get into the city at night at least a couple of times before winter sets in. This was taken in December and it was COLD!
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I am more than likin’ this one, Mrs. A. I “need” it on my wall. May I?
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I can send it to you email address, but I don’t know that I have a high resolution version anymore (which you would need to print it). This goes back to like ’03 and a lot of files have disappeared in the interim. If I can find it, I will send it. I have to check two computers and two backup drives. It could be on any one of them.
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You rock, Mrs. A, right along with your photography skills. 😀
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I started a comment under Blue Petunia and lost it, I said I had not seen the word “posterize” in 30 years.And modern computer layout people give me a blank stare when I say the word. Back in my publication editor days I used the process to good effect, when the budge was too slim for more than two colors (black and one but I bet you knew that). Your flower is an excellent example of the technique. Serendipity indeed. I am largely computer illiterate, barely into the 20th century when it left me stranded in this one. The term blog always seemed too cutesy by half, but I reluctantly edged into the stream–and was delighted to find that, stripped of all the cutesy and tech, real ideas and real thoughts and real emotions were being transmitted.
Now if they will just stop using “mic” for “mike”…
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Oddly enough, Photoshop still uses “posterize” and you can apply “poster edges” to a photo, though the results aren’t (in my opinion) as good as they were in the earlier versions. They have over-improved it. We used to do this sort of thing in the dark room — before digital imaging. Solarization too. Always loved the effect and the process (opening the darkroom door for a moment and then quickly shutting it) wasn’t exactly scientific 🙂 I’m still not genius at working with Photoshop, but I’ve learned some. It’s such a deep program, I doubt I’ll ever get much beyond the 5% I know. The only people I know who really fully understand it are graphics people who use it everyday as part of their jobs. The “mic” for “mike” thing is one of those “huh” changes. I don’t get it.
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Reblogged this on Attorney at Law Jan Vajda Namestovo, Slovakia.
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I like it, Marilyn. I was just going to hit “like,” but for some reason my gravatar stopped working on “like.”
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Sometimes that happens to me too. The vagaries of WordPress’s interface and our own computers. Always glad to hear from you, any old way.
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