Photographed on a monotone Kodak film, it was a short lived film the CN400, which could be processed in color chemicals C41. The camera was a Asahi Pentax Spotmatic, with a 50mm Supertakumar lens.
Adaline in Morjim, Goa created by Sidphoto
Camera: SONY a6000 Lens: 70-200mm, used somewhere on 90mm Lighting: 1 strobe plus daylight fill Aperture: f 6.3 ISO: 100mm Tonal separation created with the flash in the background, daylight used for the face. Further separation created using the color filters of Photoshop.
Boat in Fog created by Skyangel
It was a crisp cool foggy morning at Lake Tinaroo Qld Australia.
Aussie Kookaburra created by Skyangel
The laughing Kookaburra is the largest of the kingfishers. It is carnivorous, eats insects, frogs and reptiles.
The green tint is interesting and makes it look quite mystical but I think the filter you used for the background is distracting and causes confusion because the zig-zag patterns are all over the place and really don't look like water ripples at all. Were you trying to achieve a ripple effect?
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However, in the end, any artistic effects are always a personal choice and very subjective so pay no attention to my personal likes and dislikes. As we all know, people can have totally opposite opinions when it comes to filters. đŸ™ƒ
Hi and thank you for the critique. I was rather excited to find this new tool of smudging so I smudged and played with the background. I'm always trying to take the ordinary and push it over the top....sometimes I succeed, sometimes I don't. Adding ripples would have just made the image too vanilla for my eyes and unexciting. Remember that the lotus (or water lily) grows from mud and confusion below and only when it surfaces does it show tranquility ...so the turbulence you see behind the flower is indicative of that. Thank you for the link and your time.
Your welcome. I just imagined the background would look great with a ripple on the pond which had the stem of the flower in the middle of the ripple. Obviously the tutorial doesn't show you how to do that, but I could show you if we lived close enough to actually come and work on the same computer together.
ahhhh, well, we almost made it to your place............almost. I will wait for you in Canada if we ever get back....sigh.
Hi....here is what I did (it is really easy). In you photoshop there is a smudge tool, find it and just play with it. If you put it up to 100%...it will be too harsh. That background , nothing was done...it is the relections on the pond and I just smudged the beejeebees out of it. There you go....clear as mud right?.. đŸ˜ƒ
Infrared Shot of Palms created by grasshopper1
Shot with IR 85 filter,back yard, on a very bright cloudless day . Nikon D5300 55-300mm
Glades Pond Chicken created by grasshopper1
Shot in monochrome mode, on a cloudless early morning first light, in the glades. Nikon D5300 55-300mm
Monochromed Purple Gallinule created by grasshopper1
Shot in monochrome mode. Nikon D5300 55-300mm
The Arrival created by kyricom
Some knights arrive to take their place for a charge across the field of battle! Taken on a Pentax K-3