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It's Saturday again, Please post your "Artistic" images "Found Art" or art you have created. No restrictions as to camera or whatever means you use to make the image.

To post your pics, please reply to THIS post and change the title, so we know which post the comments refer to.

Try to limit images to three or so - save some for next week!









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Oh my, Den, all 4 are excellent!! Love the softness of them; definitely gives a feeling that they were handed painted. May I ask what program did you use or was it all done by hand?
 
Excellent capture Yuki!! I really like how you aligned the Hummer in front of the light, and how patient your subject was so you could get the shot! Well presented!!
 
Queen Palm flowers - cropped
Queen Palm flowers - cropped

Baby coconuts
Baby coconuts

These were color saturation-enhanced like I prefer on photos of this type, and I don't think the focus was perfect on the Queen Palm (a good argument for manual focus), but I liked them.
 
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There are some serious, beautiful photos here. This is not one of them. I ran across this shot today that I took of my brother while we were visiting relatives in Ohio a couple of years ago. There weren't a lot of exciting things to do in the small town where some of our relatives live, so they took us to a giant hardware store, owned by the Amish, I recall. It was actually kind of an interesting place.

We found a "bug's eye view" kaleidoscope in the toy department. I held my phone up to it for a photo of Dave and here's the result, slightly re-worked and cropped.

Dan

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Erik Ohlson said:
Yep, that's a dramatic image - the cloud adds a whole different dimension IMHO - not only highlighting the small, jagged peaks but in general adding motion & drama. [I'd hate to be on the summit at such a
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Having just turned 78 a few days ago (I guess I have a few months on you Eric) the only way you would get me anywhere near the peak would be by helicopter.
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As you say, it does seem a bit dark, at least on my screen. Here it is at 55% lightened shadows in PSE that I did to help me see how you seem to be describing it - hope you don't mind:
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I don't mind at all. I had one printed up like that poster size. Unfortunately the shadows in the snow ended up blown out. It looked good on the monitor though. I guess one has to decide which is the subject of the photo.

I like the mountain peaks and think they are brought out better in Black & White.
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Stereo Fish Eye lenses, certainly wide angle.
 
Nice muted image Karen.

Malcolm
 
Gives Fall a whole new dimension Den.

Malcolm
 
manthasfamily said:
Oh my, Den, all 4 are excellent!! Love the softness of them; definitely gives a feeling that they were handed painted. May I ask what program did you use or was it all done by hand?

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Karen
If it pleases you then to hell what everyone else thinks!
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Dear Karen,

Many thanks for your kind words. Glad you enjoyed them. My wife and I really are amazed how well the images come out on landscapes using that method. As for how i did them, I bought a first generation Sony RX100 open box from Best Buy in December for $199. It seemed too good a deal to pass up, and I always wondered how good that little camera was, based on all the praise it has received. I must say i too am quite impressed now that I have used it for a couple of months.

Well, one of the in camera features is a watercolor mode, so I just put on my computer screen some images I had taken while traveling in Europe, set the camera to the watercolor mode, and voila!, fun results!

I have since learned that Sony discontinued that feature on their 3 more recent RX100 models, and that many Sony users are quite disappointed as they really enjoyed the ability to do watercolors via in camera software.

Have a great weekend.

Den



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Nicely done Tim. I like it.

Malcolm
 
Nice watercolours Den. Ready for matting and framing..

Malcolm
 
The "Electricians Nightmare".

Malcolm
 


Well caught Lars, I love the image. I might have cropped it a little differently though, maybe the subject not quite so central.

Malcolm



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Castaway said:
Erik Ohlson said:
Yep, that's a dramatic image - the cloud adds a whole different dimension IMHO - not only highlighting the small, jagged peaks but in general adding motion & drama. [I'd hate to be on the summit at such a
Click to expand...
Having just turned 78 a few days ago (I guess I have a few months on you Eric) the only way you would get me anywhere near the peak would be by helicopter.
Castaway said:
As you say, it does seem a bit dark, at least on my screen. Here it is at 55% lightened shadows in PSE that I did to help me see how you seem to be describing it - hope you don't mind:
Click to expand...
I don't mind at all. I had one printed up like that poster size. Unfortunately the shadows in the snow ended up blown out. It looked good on the monitor though. I guess one has to decide which is the subject of the photo.

I like the mountain peaks and think they are brought out better in Black & White.
Castaway said:
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Old Sea Dog
Galleries at http://www.pbase.com/oldseadog/galleries
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OK, you have a few weeks, or so on me: 78 in about a week, now :-)

Thanks for your very dramatic contribution.







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"Measure wealth not by things you have but by things for which you would not take money"
www.flickr.com/ohlsonmh/ [email protected]
 
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