Winter trees + a bit of imagination . . .
That Morning
Old Will
Now Presenting Old Will, an 80 something year old resident of Bodie- back in the heyday of this old west mining town.
The photo comes from my trip to Bodie last October, and I created Will himself with the help of AI! This has been a fun departure for me! I think I was putting on my genealogy hat as I created (in my mind) a backstory for this old guy, including farming in Michigan, a sojourn in Colorado mining for gold, and then his later years spent in Bodie with the family of his son, Luke, who was living in Bodie.
Above is Old Will, sitting on his front porch- and below is his son, Luke, striding purposefully through Bodie.
I have created some other members of the family- less successfully, I think. For me, Old Will is the star of the show. I have abandoned the project for now, and am currently creating clip art with AI for the newsletter I do for my photo club.
All photos are my own. Each image contains a character I created with Microsoft Bing Image Creator.
Geometry Blues
I have fallen in love with creating abstracts! I have always been attracted to shapes and strong lines when I am out shooting with my camera, and this is a composite of several images with circles and rectangles. The layering started on my iPhone and then was continued in Photoshop. Fun to create- and a bit addictive!
Happy Halloween!
Happy Halloween!
FYI this is a composite of several photographs (the road is Perkinsville Road, the house is from Bodie, the pumpkins were from the grocery store, the Halloween elements were shot on Mt. Vernon Street, and the moon is, well. . . the moon!}. There are several textures laid on top, and the bats are photoshop brushes. Fun to create- hope you enjoy it!
Windmills on my Mind
As I mentioned last week, I took a few- maybe 5?- windmill photos when I was photographing raptors. And three comprised one 3 exposure in camera multiple exposure. My camera has a very basic multiple exposure feature (no blend modes, no previews etc.), but the challenge makes it fun, even if the results aren’t spectacular SOOC.
I had fun adding another windmill shot from August to create a windmill Photoshop composite. Even more fun!
Into the City
I took my multiple exposure obsession and ran with it for my “Old Master” assignment for my photo class. Instead of using my Van Gogh field of yellow flowers (which is very much in my comfort zone), I was inspired by Edward Steichen’s multiple exposure cityscapes of New York City to create a composite of three of my San Francisco images to create this one. This was a fun assignment- not only creating my own image, but seeing what the others chose. I think all of us really stepped out of our respective boxes!
Adventures in Compositing, part 3
Here is the third (and final) version of my windmill photo (see Adventures in Compositing and Adventures in Compositing, part 2), which I used for this month’s photo club. It is a composite of the windmill and Granite Mountain- with lots of layers in Photoshop, including the use of Topaz Glow and Texture Effects and On 1 software. Fun to do!
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