The Fence

I take a lot of photos out the car window as I'm travelling (as a passenger of course) and this is one of them. I loved the pattern the fences made. The fairly ominous sky did bring rain for which the farmers were very thankful as conditions are very dry in a lot of areas.

Both Paul and I are in Christmas holiday mode at the moment but we'll be back to more regular posting here on the blog soon. And since this will be our last post for the 2010 we'd like to wish you all a Happy New Year!
Now the processing:
Moleskin @ Overlay 35%
Purple Haze @ Soft light 100%
Sariel Leather @ Soft Light 83 % this layer was to give colour solely to the land so was masked from the sky.
Curves layer to tweak tone and contrast.
All textures are from the Summer Painterly pack.
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Berry Christmas!

Who needs Christmas decorations when you've got natural ones in the form of berries! These are red currants, the birds get most of the ones on the bushes these days but in the past I've made red currant jelly, ice-cream and even wine!

We'd like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a peaceful and safe Christmas and holiday season and to thank you all for your support over the past year.

A fairly simple texture recipe today as I've been too busy with Christmas preparations to do much photography or texture work.
Iridescent Brush @ Overlay 100%
Iridescent Brush @ Hard Light 67% with a little removed from the focus flowers
Backdrop @ Multiply 100%
Fly Edge #18@ Screen 41% inverted -this adds a subtle grunge to the image.
Iridescent Brush is from the painterly pack, Backdrop from Tex Box 2
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Bouquet

As requested by Debbie, here's the recipe for my recent rose image. The photo is of the Cecile Brunner roses once again, and rather than give them the soft treatment I used last time, I decided to go for a more visibly textured look.
The roses by the way are still flowering, might have to go out and pick some for more photos in between Christmas preparations.

So the processing...
Peach Blush @ Hard light 28% desaturated a little
Peach Blush @ Soft Light 38%
Brushed Rose @ Overlay 100%
Brushed Rose @ Soft Light 100%
Levels adjustment to tweak contrast.

Peach Blush is from Tex Box 2, Brushed Rose is from the Painterly set.
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Mirage

I never tire of the beach! I visit this city beach on a regular basis and it's different every time I go. On this occasion the sea fog combined with a very low tide provided wonderful shooting conditions, if the sun had peeked through the clouds that would have been the icing on the cake but unfortunately it didn't cooperate.
I've just made a Redbubble Calendar of my Flypaper flowers, perhaps I should do a beach one too :-)

The starting image you see above has already been toned blue using various adjustments.
Then it was texture time...
Pistachio @ Overlay 25%
Lavender Skies @ Soft light 100%
Brushed Rose @ Overlay 68%
Then I merged visible Ctrl -Alt-Shift-E and used the PS5 fake HDR adjustment on the merged layers to enhance contrast and colour.
I then added
Brushed Rose @ Linear light 23% and desaturated a little, removed from the lower portion using a graduated mask.
Curves adjustment to brighten the foreground.

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Magpies Gloaming

Complex city skylines are great to photograph, but sometimes focusing on just one tiny corner of a building is enough to suggest an atmosphere. Here, whilst staying with Martine I noticed her Dijon city buildings looked sufficiently different to mine, living in an ancient quarter, to try a few experimental architectural dusk shots.
Simply processed using one Flypaper texture; Matmos Lake, a current favorite, flipped vertically and smoothed, darkened the sky and enriched the tones. Gently brushing the texture from the shaded part of the building helped stop colour noise from developing.

Duplicated base image, CS5 Fake HDR colour slightly brightened copy, smoothed with the CS5 noise filter, Color @ 100%
Matmos Lake - Overlay @ 100% Flipped vertically and horizontally then smoothed with Gaussian Blur @ 100%
Matmos Lake - desaturated - Overlay @ 100% Flipped vertically and horizontally then smoothed with Gaussian Blur @ 100%
Gently brushed away from shaded side if building.
Bird layer from an earlier shot at the same location added and far right chimney removed by cloning tool.
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On the subject of high places, my current favorite Iphone App is 'Ifall', developed by Josh Kahane, the wunderkind 17 year old son of a UK based photographic Art stock agency.
At just a few cents, this game with its bouncy music blows all the winter blues away!:-)
Click the icon to go to their App page at Apple Mac!

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