It IS possible to get a decent shot from the tour bus window while moving at speed down the mountainside 🙂 … with some basic cropping and cloning and the tweaks provided by editing programs. I use Sagelight. Please click on any image for a better view. Continue reading Photo Editing – from the bus window
Vivacious – makes me think of the wood faeries dancing when nobody is looking Please click on image for a better view. original Continue reading Photo Editing for Fun
“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.” Marcus Aurelius, Meditations. Please click on image for a larger view Paula’s Thursday Special: Inflated Continue reading Bubble/7
I have been wondering if I would get back to my blog but have lacked motivation and inspiration. This week’s photo challenge is abstract and is perhaps the inspiration I needed. The following images are from photos I took at the Marble Arch Caves in Northern Ireland. I am a point-and-shooter and the lighting in the caves did not produce any great shots. So I decided … Continue reading Photo Editing: Abstracts
One photo, four ways over the course of the month. A great chance to play and see what develops 🙂 Please click on images for a larger view Original For the last week I took Week 3 and cloned out the diagonal line upper right. Now I think full focus is on the lily. Robyn’s One Four Challenge Week 4 Continue reading Robyn’s One Four Feb/Week 4
I’ve been reviewing some of my photos and thinking, “this should be a pretty good image, but it isn’t. What’s wrong with it?” Then I reverted to my painting and composition background and realized, “They are too busy. If I’d painted this it wouldn’t be so cluttered.” So I set forth and changed the landscape :). Here are two examples. The black hole on the … Continue reading Photo Editing: Redesigning
One photo, four ways over the course of the month. A great chance to play and see what develops 🙂 Please click on images for a larger view Original This time I took the image from week 2 and went to black and white Robyn’s One Four Challenge Week 3 Continue reading Robyn’s One Four Feb/Week 3
One photo, four ways over the course of the month. A great chance to play and see what develops 🙂 Please click on images for a larger view Original Week 1 I find the lower left distracting, because of the grey colour and the lack of focus so using the cloning tool I rearranged that quadrant. Next week I will take this week’s image and … Continue reading Robyn’s One Four Feb/Week 2
One photo, four ways over the course of the month. A great chance to play and see what develops 🙂 My original – click on any image for a larger view My first changes are adjusting the grey scale and upping the detail. Next week I will take this adjusted image and go from there. Robyn’s One Four Challenge 2016 – Feb week 1 Continue reading Robyn’s One four Feb/week 1
Sometimes I edit to improve my original image – set the grey scale, tweak the detail, raise the contrast. Sometimes it’s to remove elements – the garbage can sitting the background, the telephone wires draped across the sky, the back end of a car destroying the balance of the image. And sometimes I like to transform my image – using distortion techniques, or extreme zoom, … Continue reading Photo Editing: Transformation
Paula at Lost in Translation invited Tobias M. Schiel to host her Thursday’s Special challenge, the theme being organized noise. Please read his interesting and thought provoking post. I really like the term ‘organized noise’; it has such possibilities. What rang true for me was Tobias’ comment – ” . . . there is also the aspect of organizing noise into music – or visual ‘noise’ into pictures. Some … Continue reading Photo Editing: Organized Noise
Sometimes there is more than one image hiding within a single photograph. Here is a nondescript, ho-hum photograph of the 15thC tower house of King John’s Castle in Kilmallock, County Limerick, Ireland, followed by three different images cropped from this one photograph. Please click on any image for a larger view. #1 In addition to cropping I judiciously removed any elements that I felt were … Continue reading Photo Editing – Cropping for Effect
Here are two images I created from my photos using Sagelight software. For those of you who don’t already know, I LOVE Sagelight for the limitless variety that can be produced, each resulting piece one of a kind. Originals follow. Please click on images for a larger view. For a different edited version of the above image, not ‘artified’, click here Continue reading Photo Editing – painterly images
The village of Kilfinnane in Limerick, Ireland. My original shot left something to be desired but the take out of the car and the lamp post on the extreme left made for a reasonable composition, and saved the shot. All editing done in Sagelight. Click on the images for a larger view. Continue reading Photo Editing – the take out
I spent all of December at the hospital with my husband and it became my only source of subject matter, but I took photographs to distract myself. Now at home I have begun to view and edit them and as I do so I realize my editing choices are very much connected to my experience. I suppose this is always true – we are, after all, the sum … Continue reading Photo editing – we are what we edit
Above, window shopping in Tallin. Below, a busker in Ottawa doing his routine. Please click on images for a larger view. Riding the subway in St. Petersburg Walking the dog in Edinburg Ailsa’s travel theme: routine Continue reading Back to Routine
“Life is fragile. We’re not guaranteed a tomorrow so give it everything you’ve got.” – Tim Cook – the chief executive officer of Apple Inc. Click on image for a larger view Weekly Photo Challenge: Weight(less) Continue reading Bubble/6
Stacy at Visual Venturing hosts One Photo Focus. She provides the photo and we all edit it and resubmit it to her where she compiles them all on her blog. Nice Stacy. This is the photo for this month – an image of the Anping Treehouse in Tainan, Taiwan submitted by Helen Chen of HHC Blog: I really didn’t know where to go with this and set it aside for several … Continue reading One Photo Focus/November
Play time. I like this photo, for its composition and subject matter, but it’s a little too soft for my taste. So I played. First up, I worked on the detail, contrast and lighting. The HDR creates a haloing effect resulting in the grey sky but in this image I liked it and kept it – I think it goes well with the mood and … Continue reading Photo Editing Two Ways – House at Sandside Bay
Stacy at Visual Venturing hosts One Photo Focus. She provides the photo and we all edit it our own way. Then she does all the work of pulling it all together on her site. (Thank you, Stacy) It’s always interesting to see the varied interpretations. This is the original photo submitted by Benjamin Rowe. The JPeg I downloaded was unfortunately very small, only 53.7kb so … Continue reading One Photo Focus – Castle
Beyond the Brush 