Strolling down a walkway in Balboa Park, I saw this pattern of shadows from the late afternoon sunlight. Experimenting with Snapseed, I converted to B&W and applied a little grunge. The following is the original for reference.
There is always something interesting wherever you are. It was a bright, but hazy afternoon as I was overlooking the LA Harbor. Nothing looked interesting in the harbor. I looked up and saw the warm afternoon sun highlighting the fence surrounding the overlook. The repeating curved arrows added to the interest.
Welcome Summer! This Spring has been very interesting … periods of heat, cold, wet, and dry conditions, all mixed together. Right now we are between periods of rain and warm days. It is hard to tell which is growing faster, our flowers or the weeds. One thing for sure, our knees are getting their workout separating the two.
This image is a multiple exposure created by simultaneously rotating and zooming around the center flower. Karen’s garden creates an abundance of photographic opportunities.
More of the Fonthill Study coming …
Karen and I had planned a trip up to Hershey, PA to see the Hershey Rose Garden for quite some time. We delayed the trip one day due to an extremely severe rain and lightning storm that passed through the area. We knew that the gardens would be impacted, but went the next day anyway. The day was a beautiful bright summer day in the 80’s. However, the roses had been damaged by the previous day’s storm as expected. It was not the best for photography. It was time to get creative and try some different things.
The image above is an “in-camera” multiple exposure of a group of roses with a water fountain in the background. The first image was taken with a moderate depth of field at normal exposure. The second image was defocused and slightly overexposed. The combined image was adjusted for brightness with NIK Viveza and NIK Color Efex Pro. A painterly look was then added with Topaz Simplify.
No matter what the condition, there always seems to be something worth capturing.
For reference below are the two images that were combined.
Images of the Lincoln Memorial are abundant everywhere and so are reflections. I just had a few moments to “grab” a quick reflection as our group headed back to the van. It’s a little different .. but not too creative … just another perspective.
I was experimenting with swipes and pans on this Redbud tree to create some interesting images for backgrounds. While I had my camera set for a blur (f/32, 1/4 second, ISO 200), I let the wind create a little magic on its own. I just held the camera still, waited for a gust of wind, then snapped the shutter. It’s pretty amazing what nature can do!
Yesterday’s post was a simple image. How can I make it simpler??? I just turned it into a “painting” using Topaz Adjust and Simplify. Sometimes it is just fun to play around and see what I can come up with.
This is a different perspective of the curved road in my prior two posts. Once I see something that catches my eye, I tend to focus on that element from different perspectives. This image is a horizontal pan of the bending curve. I tried “S”-swipes, “C”-swipes. and horizontal pans. A gentle horizontal pan gave me the balance between blur and detail that I was looking for. The image was processed in NIK Silver Efex Pro. I focused on highlighting the shadows and the shape of the curve. I chose sepia toning with a soft blurred white vignette to represent the feeling of the image in its natural tone. It is no longer an image of the landscape, but an abstract of shadows and curves.
