Exposed
Combining my current state of grief with my pastimes of art and gardening has produced this series. Please click on the image for a larger view. Continue reading Exposed
Combining my current state of grief with my pastimes of art and gardening has produced this series. Please click on the image for a larger view. Continue reading Exposed
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
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
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
Sometimes I just can’t decide if i prefer the black and white version, or the colour version, so I am offering up both. Bridge over the River Nith at Thornhill, Scotland Continue reading BW vs RGB -Nith Bridge
I’ve been looking through my photos for an example of good, or poor, use of vertical lines and I thought this might be a useful example of good use. The vertical line of the tree on the right blocks the strong horizontal line of the bridge. Without it, the eye would follow the bridge right out of the photo. The trunk and the branches keep … Continue reading Photography – Composition
Weekly photo challenge: From every angle – I found this to be a good reminder. The first or obvious shot is not always the best shot. Changing the angle changes the perspective, the background and the composition, any of which can add or detract from the shot. I went out into my garden and shot a round of images of St. Francis. I kept post … Continue reading Composition – from every angle
So, I’m undertaking a major clean up of my photo files and I come across this – And I ask myself, do I really want to keep this? Well, I should just take a minute and look see … so I brought it up in Sagelight, clicked on just about anything and everything that looked like fun and arrived at this … rather Indiana Jones and … Continue reading Photo editing: Photo file clean-up
Stacy over at Visual Venturing hosts the After Before challenge and we all love her for it. 🙂 Though I have looked at Photoshop layering a number of times I have never been able to get any joy; I’ve never been able to figure it out. HOWever, a fellow blogger pointed me towards Pixlr where even I have had some measure of success. I don’t know … Continue reading Photo Editing: Layering for dummies
Chiesa di San Salvatore in Venice Stacy sponsors ABFriday at Visual Venturing My original photo (below) was underexposed and overrun with tourists but the door to this church was magnificent. I wanted to highlight it and play down the unavoidable people. I cropped it, despite that wonderful lighting at the top of the door and then used paint to eliminate some of people. I adjusted … Continue reading ABFriday: Venice
Stacy’s provides the photo and we give our interpretation. This is the original photo -obviously centre stage goes to the tree and vines but I found the chairs on the porch interesting – I love porches. So I cropped it down to some interesting lines –And I took it into Paint and made some changes – And then in Sagelight I aged it and added a median … Continue reading Photo Editing: One Photo Focus: The Porch
Artist displaying his work, Tallinn, Estonia Weekly Photo Challenge: Wall Continue reading The Art Show
Click on image to enlarge Step one for me is usually adjusting the lighting. I work in Sagelight and used the Smart Light to make minor adjustments. I liked the wet reflections on the sidewalk and wanted to keep and enhance that if I could. I didn’t like the semi-visible light standard to the right of centre so I wanted to either get rid of … Continue reading Photo Editing: ABFriday Week 35 One Photo Focus
I’m joining Robyn’s One Four Challenge this month – one photograph processed four different ways over the month. This time I tried to change the time of day. In Photoscape I used the linear gradient feature several times, to the top and to the bottom, layering until I got something approaching what I wanted. In Sagelight I added HDR, adjusted the vibrancy and added a … Continue reading Photo Editing: One Four Challenge January week 4
I’m joining Robyn’s One Four Challenge this month – one photograph processed four different ways over the month. For Week 3 I am going with a monochrome. I can’t remember every step I took in this because I tried so many things but primarily I played with the power curves, and vibrancy using Sagelight. I also cropped the sides a bit to eliminate some effects that were happening there … Continue reading Photo Editing: One Four Challenge January week 3
I’m joining Robyn’s One Four Challenge this month – one photograph processed four different ways over the month. For week 2 I decided to aim for a dawning-of-a-new-world look; to dramatize the scene from natural to the surreal. Using the original image I adjusted the power curve and took the image to the extreme dark side. Then I went into the HDR details where Sagelight has … Continue reading Photo Editing: One Four Challenge January week 2
I’m joining Robyn’s One Four Challenge this month – one photograph processed four different ways over the month. Here is week 1: This was taken at Pointe du Grouin on the coast of Brittany. The light was thrilling that day – I nearly knocked my sister down trying to get some shots before it changed 🙂 The original is below – you can see I gave … Continue reading Photo Editing: One Four Challenge January week 1
I’m glad Cee’s black and white challenge is back. Theme: seating Continue reading Have a Seat
Artists often work in a series, working with their subject to highlight a different aspect, offer a different point of view, a different time of day, or light, or season. I’ve recently been working in a couple – my solo series, the odd couple series, and I am just starting another one titled Another World exploring the hidden depths of the garden. I have found that … Continue reading Photo Editing: a series
Originally the residence of the first Bishop of Upper Canada, Rev Alexander Macdonell, it later became a school, and then an alcohol treatment centre called Mount Carmel House during the 1980’s and 1990’s. It now stands empty but there is hope it will somehow survive. Continue reading Bishop’s House Window