I love trying out various effects. Often my goal is to make a photograph look like a painting. If I were a painter, I would do it with a brush and canvas. Since I’m not, Photoshop provides interesting tools and Google’s NIK filters offer even more choices.
You can judge for yourself. I certainly enjoyed doing them.
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Lovely. I also like your new blog format and font. Looks like you dabble with the design fairly often. I think playing with the look of the blog is also part of creative process and enjoy it myself.
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I do change formats often. I get bored with the old one. There’s always something I DON’T like about a template — and eventually, that becomes more important than what I DO like. You’ve done a bit of dabbling yourself and I’m really glad you gave up on the black background with white text. It was headache city and only because it was you did I read it. You are the first blogger I ever read or followed and remarkably, I’m still following AND reading you. It may be a record!
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Yes, I’m happy now that I’ve gone to a white background. As you said, it is more readable and I like the light feeling of the entire site. Even the photos on white is something I like better.
Thank you for being such a loyal reader. I do really appreciate it. And you have gotten into blogging in such a big way. I feel partially responsible for that and I’ m glad you are having fun.
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You DID get e started and I thank you daily 🙂
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The last one is REALLY painted-like. I imagine it would be fun to sit there with a picture and do all the little manipulations one can do. A lot like tinkering, and I like to tinker. 🙂
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In July we put a small window A/C unit in the living room. It’s only 4000 BTU, but quite efficient and though it’s nowhere near big enough to cool this large room, it helps take the weight off the 10,000 BTU unit in the dining room (the rooms are open to each other). I used to get sunlight late in the day, but little AC unit blocks the sunlight. The result? If I want to shoot in the living room, it’s always too dark. And I was using my compact camera, the one I carry everywhere. It’s a great little camera, but it doesn’t do well in low light.
All the pictures were a bit soft — a little blurry. Too good to erase, but not sharp enough to stand on their own.
So — to the rescue! Special effects! They are no longer grainy and out-of-focus. They are ART. Basically, that’s what I do with pictures that aren’t quite sharp enough. I mess with them. But they have to be ALMOST sharp enough. Seriously blurry ones get erased.
Now you (and anyone who reads the comments), knows my secret 😀
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Beautiful! I love the color mix.
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Thanks!
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Your sunflowers are simply gorgeous.
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Thank you. Coming from you, that means a lot!!
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Perfect subject, and such fun to playing with photoshop to bring out the textures and change them up ! 🙂
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Thanks. I had the pictures, all shot in light too low for that lens. Just a LITTLE too low. A bit too soft to process in the usual way, but ideal for experimentation. I did have fun with them 🙂
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Your thought reminds me of Vincent. I like the background. it certainly makes them look brighter! Nice post.
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Funny you should mention it, I was thinking of Vincent when I was playing. Actually, I was humming the song, too.
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gorgeous, they look alive
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Thanks. I love sunflowers 🙂 They are the total symbol of summer in New England.
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The sunflowers are beautiful in any form. Perhaps a more challenging subject? Just a suggestion.
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Like Bonnie?
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