Animation and Triptych Fun

[Day Twenty Nine]

A couple of new and very fun PS tricks from Kim today ... simple entertainment for all ... hope you enjoy it ...

My kids enjoying some Summer fun at the beach ...

A triptych collection of my favourite type of photography — shooting at low apertures hence 

creating my much loved bokehs ...

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To Me From ME!

[Day Twenty Six]

Thinking about ME first this week ... saw some awesomely beautiful pink tulips while passing by the florist on Thursday and got busy all weekend getting them to pose for me, posting a few here in the blog and some HERE on my Flickr stream and still have a whole lot unprocessed on my hard drive ... never realised that a small bunch of flowers could be so much fun ...

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[see below for recipe]

Shot with a bit of fun ...

Recipe for Texture processing [top image]:

Layer 1: Background layer

Layer 2: Duplicate background layer at softlight

Layer 3: Kim's "littlethings" texture at 40% multiply

Layer 4: Kim's "now" texture at 100% screen [I reversed the texture so that it was a b&w negative image]

Layer 5: My water mark stamp

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I am already Amazing?

[Day Twenty Five]

Am I? Not so sure, but thanks Kim for planting that thought in our heads, it is a start.

As you can see I have missed a few days, oh wells, guess that's how it works...get on with the days I can cope with ... today's challenge is simply simple from Kim ... Just a simple image using Kim's 'I am' texture and one of Kim's 'beyond affirmation brushes'... thank you Kim, you are really 'AMAZING'.

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Finishing Touches

[Day Twenty One]

Today's challenge is to "Frame It", add the finishing touch to give your image just a little more edge, so to speak.  Here is one of my images with two different framing.

 

   

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Colour My Week Red

[Day Nineteen Red]

Colour My Week Blue

[Day Nineteen - Blue]

Finally picking up my camera again two days in a row ... showing progress, I think.

Just a whisper

[day fifteen + day sixteen]

I am so behind it's not funny, and all my days in the blog are starting to get all mixed up ... but guess that's the way it has to be when you take a week off from any sort of creativity ... playing catch up now, hopefully I'll get there.

Think Kim's day fifteen post and prompt came on a day that predicted my week ahead, "resistance", something we need to fight off because it is so so true, sometimes that niggling voice in our heads that can stop us in our tracks before anything even has any hope of forming into something amazing. If only there was a volume control that could lower the impact of these negatives.

Well in the last couple of days I have fought hard to pick up the camera again and slowly the feeling is back and processing this image tonight has certainly reminded me of why I love photography so much, it's not so much the capturing part but the processing part, the process of turning that image into something so much more than just an image, gives me the feeling of peace ... the word I think that fits for me is "therapeutic" ... don't know if anyone else can relate to this but that's how I see and feel it ... hope everyone else can feel it too, because it's an amazing feeling.

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Sometimes a whisper may not seem much but when it's heard only by you and nobody else then it becomes something special.

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