Cone Flower – the sequel

 

First off – the macro photos are still coming!  But, I played around with one adjustment to the Cone Flower image I posted last night.  To my network friend Kevin – I know you aren’t much into border effects, but hopefully, you’ll permit me one more tweak!

I decided I wanted some of the petals to pop out of the frame.  The tools I used to create the frame in the first place made it SUPER easy to go into the layer mask and “paint” the petals right back into the image – making the petals show over the frame.  Hope you like this new version!

Cone Flower – the sequel

 

First off – the macro photos are still coming!  But, I played around with one adjustment to the Cone Flower image I posted last night.  To my network friend Kevin – I know you aren’t much into border effects, but hopefully, you’ll permit me one more tweak!

I decided I wanted some of the petals to pop out of the frame.  The tools I used to create the frame in the first place made it SUPER easy to go into the layer mask and “paint” the petals right back into the image – making the petals show over the frame.  Hope you like this new version!

Cross Processing

Not sure if it is really valid anymore – cross processing in the darkroom was where you would deliberately process film in a chemical solution that was intended for a different type of film – resulting in some unique results.

Fortunately, these same kind of results can be obtained in Photoshop. Of course, as I’ve mentioned in some of my recent posts, I’ve been using PhotoTools 2.0 from onOne Software to play around with some photos. Really streamlines the work that I’d have to do in Photoshop to create something similar.

Tonight I was playing around with some cross processing styles and came up with this photo:

ISO 200, 1/200, f/4.5, 55mm – Nikon D300

Here is the image prior to cross processing:

This model is Shealyn – someone local to me that I hope I can work with all summer to try out some new techniques and just to stay sharp with extra shooting. She did a fantastic job on this shoot. I’m looking forward to working with her again.

Hope everyone had a great Memorial Day weekend!

PJ