A Colour Storyboard

Our lesson this week was in creating a color storyboard.  I really enjoyed playing with this one.

I used the chalk brush 60 pixels and added a bit of Ugglove with a soft light mode and brushed it away a bit from the goldfinch.

Truly fun and inspiring.

1 Photo 3 Different Ways

The challenge...take one photo and edit it 3 different ways.

Tonight it was a challenge for me.  I'm not totally happy with it and want to play a bit more...another restful day when the creative juices are a bit rested.

What I gathered from this is...I think I need to choose a different photo.  You know...like American Idol....you have to have the right song choice to make it work.

sigh

The middle one is my favorite.

Day 23 - Layers of Pastel

Easter...currently my most favorite time of the year..as far as holidays go because it has become one of my few traditions to be at my awesome daughter's house enjoying it with her, her other half and my wonderfully awesomely cute granddaughters. Really. They. Are.

It gives me a chance to be a kid again and color eggs!!! Laugh. Play. Swing. and snap that photograph..time and time again.

Pastels, although not something I adorn this person with...have their place and Easter is definitely one of them. This project was fun. I love the retro. I love the texture. And these pastels...warm my heart.

Easter. A wonderful celebration with a wonderful family.

(the pic.....texture added at full opacity, color layer of yellow in screen mode...brushing the yellow off the eggs at a 50% opacity and the texture totally off the eggs. Forgot to keep layers open to record all steps)

Forest Floors

There is just something so mystical to me about the forest floor. Particularly this time of the year when Mother Nature lays a new carpet filled with a multitude of colors from her 'painters palette'. This one just takes my breathe away...but then I am very easily pleased and impressed. What can I say.

Another example of a perspective change.
Adding a bit of texture to it myself...creating an art piece in itself.

(Shot w/ Nikon D90, 1/25sec, f5.6, Tamron 28 - 300)

Texture

Poster edges has to be one of my favorite textures right now. I love the 'mood' it sets in some of my photos.

In addition to poster edges on this old barn and fence, of course, I put the background in black and white and kept the red fence. Kind of wish I had just bit more shallow depth of field.

Can you guess what texture I used for this one? No...nothing in PS/PSE.

This texture is just the natural effect of the snow fall and a bit blurriness to the photo. Every once in a while...blurriness is a good thing.