Burano in Pastels
This was originally a successful picture from Burano in Venice,. I applied the Simplify filter from Fo2pix at about 80% opacity. Then I used a layer mask to remove the filter from selected parts of the image to make them stand out.
"Creative photography is producing an image through the use of imaginative skill or originality of thought including the altering of reality. No image should be eliminated from consideration simply because it looks realistic, provided it shows originality of concept." Note: this does not require compter manipulation - unmanipulated images with unusual angles of view or subject selection often win.
This was originally a successful picture from Burano in Venice,. I applied the Simplify filter from Fo2pix at about 80% opacity. Then I used a layer mask to remove the filter from selected parts of the image to make them stand out.
Part of an abalone shell, photographed in my den. This one took more Photoshop work than the others
The Sunwapta Falls, Canadian Rockies, shot as a triple exposure thru blue, red and green filters
The cross and pews are in the same Idaho church as Church Window. But I moved the cross from a very dark area to in front of the pews to give it more context. I used a bit of Lens Blur on the pews. The light on the cross is real, but I helped it a little bit.
Our camera club council has a category called "sequences." One day I was walking past a wall near home when I noticed that several of the bricks in the wall look sort of like faces. I came back with my SLR on a day with nice flat light and made a bunch of exposures, and later I realized that some of them would do well as a sequence. Here's the result. I had to enhance them a bit in Photoshop and make them all the same size, but that's about it.
Created with the Find Edges filter in Photoshop on an extra layer in Multiply mode, then I modified the opacity and Levels to get it the way I liked it. Then I used Layer mask to make the figures normal and added the moon.
Made at the Alameda County Fair as a long exposure with my D70. It took some cloning to remove distractions.
This picture was inspired by (or plagiarized from) an image by Ann Miles in the Jan/Feb2000 issue of Digital Photo Art. The tree is in the Limahuli Gardens on Kaua'i; the tower is the Ferry Building, a San Francisco landmark. The image received a silver medal at the 2001 Alameda County Fair. and an HM in the Popular Photography 2001 International Photo contest.
The original was shot at Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia. I made a copy layer and applied Find Edges, and then merged it in Linear Burn mode. I then applied a sinusoidal Curves adjustment layer to kind of modify the colors. Finally, I painted out some of the layer at the bottom to make that part lighter
Shot on a San Francisco by night workshop and modified a bit in Photoshop.
I started with Find Edges, then changed the opacity. Next I reflected the top part with a different color and added wave filters. (I don't remember the details). The sky reminds me of Van Gogh; hence the title.
Teachers like Freeman Patterson and Richard Martin show great images where they made multiple exposures whilst moving the camera. Their images of trees are especially nice. I decided that I am too clumsy to do that, so I tried to duplicate the method in Photoshop.
The original was shot on the Mersey River in Nova Scotia. I applied the Simplify filter from Fo2pix - that's all.
This is one of the many dances we saw on the cruise. I thought that most were pretty boring, and Ralph Hopkins suggested that I try zooming to make things more interesting. I think this one worked fairly well.
This was Jean's idea. I used cows extracted from photos taken in Zurich to make a Magritte-like image. The cows were fiberglass cows funded by Zurich businesses and sold for charity. Such cows have now become popular in other cities, like Chicago!
Here I used a technique suggested in Digital Photo Art magazine. I used Curves in Photoshop to alter the color of the whole picture. Then I transformed it to stretch it vertically, and changed the color of the sky.
Shot at Pt Lobos using blue, red, and green filters in a triple exposure. Blue at -1.5, red -2, green -1.
Like the green boat, this was shot at Peggy's cove and modified using a Find Edges layer. In this case, however, I merged it using Color Burn instead of Linear Burn.
Made in the harbor of Akranes, Iceland. When I looked at it on the screen I realized that someone could make an image like it by taking a straight picture of a couple boats and manipulating it in Photoshop. This one was only cropped.
This was inspired by an example in DIgital Photo Art magazine. I copied one side of an image of a canal with two gondole, flipped it, and pasted it to make the two-sided image, then removed one gondola from each side to make it look more realistic.
Some friends and I went to lunch in a Japanese restaurant San Mateo during the break in a lecture by Brenda Tharp. The restaurant was above a high-end grocery store, and there was a glass-block window overlooking the store next to our table. I shot this with my pocket camera while waiting for food, and then messed around with it a bit in Photoshop.
This is a composite of three images shot at the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo. The procession was going down something like a cloister, with columns, and I shot between two columns getting a part of it with each shot.
I used Smart Blur to get edges, then performed a couple of inversions to get the red background on grey. Finally I added the geisha
In Victoria harbor, with a 2.5 sec ond exposure. This was in bright sunlight and I made the long exposure by using crossed polaroids as a variable ND filter.
When I shot this from Port View Park just before Christmas I realized that this would be a great place to shoot 4th of July fireworks. And then I thought, "why wait?"
This is an unsuccessful picture of frosted green leaves modified with the Simplify filter from Fo2pix. Makes a difference!
On the Pacific trip I made a few closeups of the thatch on thatched huts. Then I had to decide what to do with them. I decided that combining one with an image of a man with a thatched bag might work well. I did almost nothing other than select the man and then add a bit of shadow under his feet to make it a little more convincing and then, of course, the usual darkening of the outer edges
Shot in Golden Gate Park during a workshop with Stephen Scott Patterson. I used a technique suggested by Joan Field, Image Invert, to make the scene much more interesting. But it needed a fair amount of work to get rid of bright distracting areas in the background.
The hotels are along the Grand Canal. The facades were changed with the Simplify filter from FotoPix and (as I recall) Smart Blur Edges Only inverted. The base is kind of boring, so I moved them to St. Mark's Square, which is often flooded. That justified the refection. I added the pigeons from another shot of St. Mark's.
Richard took the opportunity of a rainy night and an awning to teach us about panning while shooting moving people.
Part of a jackhammer that I saw on one of my walks and photographed with my pocket camera, actually as a jpg by mistake. The manipulation was suggested by Guy Davies.
