A rather fanciful camellia
Camellia x williamsii E.G.Waterhouse
For Looking Close... on Friday!'s #spring flora theme
[This image was created from a series of eight slightly rotated shots of a single bloom (a potted camellia, so i could rotate it easily), with each layer blended using different modes and opacities. It was inspired by an image of a tree the lovely Peter Whitfield posted some time ago, using a technique named for the artist, Pep Ventosa, who first used it. For Peter's shot, he circled his subject through 360 degrees. For mine, I limited myself to rotating through 180 degrees from left to right (mainly because parts of the garden wouldn't look great as background). When I saw Peter's shot, I started thinking about whether it would translate to a smaller subject. As Peter said in his original posting, the technique itself is relatively easy to understand but what i'd been finding daunting was the prospect of deciding on the blend modes and opacities for each layer when the possibilities are endless... ]
A rather fanciful camellia
Camellia x williamsii E.G.Waterhouse
For Looking Close... on Friday!'s #spring flora theme
[This image was created from a series of eight slightly rotated shots of a single bloom (a potted camellia, so i could rotate it easily), with each layer blended using different modes and opacities. It was inspired by an image of a tree the lovely Peter Whitfield posted some time ago, using a technique named for the artist, Pep Ventosa, who first used it. For Peter's shot, he circled his subject through 360 degrees. For mine, I limited myself to rotating through 180 degrees from left to right (mainly because parts of the garden wouldn't look great as background). When I saw Peter's shot, I started thinking about whether it would translate to a smaller subject. As Peter said in his original posting, the technique itself is relatively easy to understand but what i'd been finding daunting was the prospect of deciding on the blend modes and opacities for each layer when the possibilities are endless... ]