Monday, December 24, 2007
Florida "Christmas Tree" (Cardinal Flower)
No frost here or snow here, but thought this might do as I jump onto the holiday theme bandwagon.
I made this image last year in an attempt to create the look of stacked slides -- I took one photo in focus and another one out of focus and overlaid them in Photoshop. I also added a mostly transparent high contrast layer on top. I've tried this technique several times with other images, but have never again been quite this successful.
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I'm playing on Carla's MacBook!!!
The PS effect coupled with the superb Bokeh make this a very artistic presentation of a flower. The flower is also attractive. I could run upstairs and look at this on main monitor but on the Mac I feel it needs a little extra saturation. Puff, just run upstairs and it is OK!
Just waiting for the beef to cook!
I thought that this quote from an article about Richard Mabey, an eminent British naturalist and conservationist might be appropriate:
"He refuses to see culture in opposition to nature, preferring to regard it as "the interface between us and the non-human world, our species' semi-permeable membrane". An imaginative and emotional response to the landscape and its inhabitants is vital, he thinks, for our planet's survival."
Interesting technique. One notices the occasional artefact resulting from the overlay and contrast layer but, when printed, I suspect that one wouldn't notice them and that a print would look very good. I like the use of the flower as a Christmas tree simile.
A beautiful photo and an interesting way of getting it. The result has the air of a botanical drawing - everything slightly emphasised for clarity, yet still recognisably the plant.
This has such an interesting look to it, which I find very appealing. Almost a watercolor paint effect. Very nicely done with the hard and soft edges.
More painterly look than photographic and very effective too. The colours work well (red and green always work well for me). Proof that more of less in PS can yield quite wonderful results.
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The PS effect coupled with the superb Bokeh make this a very artistic presentation of a flower. The flower is also attractive. I could run upstairs and look at this on main monitor but on the Mac I feel it needs a little extra saturation. Puff, just run upstairs and it is OK!
Just waiting for the beef to cook!
"He refuses to see culture in opposition to nature, preferring to regard it as "the interface between us and the non-human world, our species' semi-permeable membrane". An imaginative and emotional response to the landscape and its inhabitants is vital, he thinks, for our planet's survival."
Interesting technique. One notices the occasional artefact resulting from the overlay and contrast layer but, when printed, I suspect that one wouldn't notice them and that a print would look very good. I like the use of the flower as a Christmas tree simile.