I am really in the mood today to PLAY with photos more than TAKE them. I bundled up and spent about twenty minutes outside today, hoping to get some bird shots- unsuccessful. I ended up taking bare branch shots (don’t know why I love them so. . .) and an ivy leaf peeking through the fence (for the topic, renewal).
Then I went crazy.
I’ve been playing with the difference blend mode lately and had a lot of fun using some of Jessica Drossin’s textures along with varying blend modes, including difference as the starting place. I especially love it for the black trees, as it turns them gold! The predominant texture you are seeing in the blue and pink shades is Lost Rainbow.
Puzzler: I was very surprised to see the difference (no pun intended) between the photo I edited in Photoshop and what was transferred back to Lightroom. I ended up having to increase vibrance and contrast in both photos to get them to look at all like they did in Photoshop. They still look best in Photoshop. Color space issues???
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Beautiful!!!
I especially like the first one and the way the blend mode made the black branches go gold! Nice!