Always time to play. I'm sitting in the studio for the sixth day in a row. It's starting to get to me and affect my mood. But there's just too much dang wind to go out and play. It's gusting over 60 knots, and after ten minutes it's unpleasant and boring. So, I'm playing inside instead. The new release of Photoshop contains some interesting painting tools. I processed these photos through my normal parameters, then started pressing buttons and pushing sliders until I got this result. It's a bit garish, I realize that, but my toolbox just got a little bigger and now when I head out to photograph, I may be shooting certain subjects to utilize this technique. The photo below is the result of a new masking technique I discovered that allowed precise selection of background and foreground. This seems to get closer to my desired effect.
As a finishing step I added a canvas texture to these images. Knowing they were destined for the blog I thought the texture would aid the viewer's perception of the digital image. However, if I decide to send an image for printing, it would certainly be printed on canvas and therefore I'd have to remove the texture. I've done a few of these now and you can expect to see a few more, soonish.
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