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Nils Kreuger (1858-1930) - Cattle by the shore (1908). In the collection of Waldemarsudde, Stockholm.

Another photo of the "Elf maiden" from Katsucon 2019. I spent some time adding in effects (Sharpen AI, Adjust-HDR Sketch Light, Silver Efex, Color Efex, et al.) as I wanted her to have a smooth yet air-like quality.

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Taken at Blackwell Run Lake in The Wheeler National Wildlife Reserve in Madison County, Alabama and enhanced with The Studio effect in Topaz Studio 2

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Great light effects between the big dark clouds!

This January day was really a present for a photographer-heart. On one side big dark clouds with fantastic light effects, on the other side an almost clear, deep blue sky.

I think I'll never get back such a great photo selection, as on this day!

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Today's storms were preceded by some wonderful mammatus and mixed turbulence formations.

rockefeller center NYC. ground floor chandelier. No special effects added to this photo...

Clouds - Messing around with the colors. I thought this came out pretty cool.

Hdr Version

Recyling some from the "no comments" set

Side effects include ditching the comedy pseudonym I've been using for the last two years. Not sure everyone really got it anyway. It's a bit scary being yourself on the World Wide Internet. But here goes...

My LEGO. Pedro Nogueira Photography.

More LEGO shots here.

The first one is the original image

The middle one is the effect I created in Photoshop, its a hard light effect wherein the guy seems to be in a dark cottage with a tear in the wall or something from where sunlight is falling on him,

The third image is where I have tried to put a grunge effect on the image, the image seems to be worn out and looks really old, as if taken a long time back.

Helios 44 special effects

Interactive light art installations by the Caterpillars (Singapore) at the Esplanade Park during iLight Marina Bay 2018.

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Neca Blade Runner 2049 Officer K. Photo captured with practical light effects.

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Matteo (EID Rex)

I added the Studio Pallette Oil effect in Topaz Studio II to this photo I took of a crepe myrtle and weeping willow tree above our driveway in Madison, Alabama.

Drug Side Effects:

A side effect is usually regarded as an undesirable secondary effect which occurs in addition to the desired therapeutic effect of a drug or medication. Side effects may vary for each individual depending on the person's disease state, age, weight, gender, ethnicity and general health.

Side effects can occur when commencing, decreasing/increasing dosages, or ending a drug or medication regimen. Side effects may also lead to non-compliance with prescribed treatment. When side effects of a drug or medication are severe, the dosage may be adjusted or a second medication may be prescribed. Lifestyle or dietary changes may also help to minimize side effects.

I love trying out the effects in Picnik, always funny to see how it changes the tones and colours of a picture and often I can't really decided which one I like best. And often, I prefer the added effect to the original picture. Though sometimes, the effect is a bit too strong and the options to adjust it afterwards are not always so good. I suppose there are many other ways to achieve such effects in PhotoshopElements, but I just haven't really had time yet to find out more about those (I'm waiting for the Christmas holiday to get some PE time..). In the meantime, I like trying out the Picnik options. My favourites are the 60s style and the CinemaScope, sometimes combining them.

This one here is the CinemaScope effect, in the comment 60s style and combination plus the original shot.

Decim8 is an iPhone app that degrades photos by introducing digital artifacts that replicate a damaged file.

The same effect can produce very different results each time you execute it. I've provided 3 samples of each one so that you can get a better idea of what the effect is doing. I think it's probably most important to note what Decim8 does when no effect is chosen. These contrast and color variations come into play no matter what effect (or combination of effects) you place on top of them.

Notes: for some reason the "VETH" effect stopped working during my testing. Deleting and re-installing the app brought it back. Also, "randomizing" the effects(available from the camera screen) not only selects a random combination of effects but shuffles their order too. I only mention it because the app also doesn't store any EXIF data and it caused some confusion when I was trying to figure out which effect went with which photo.

Full res version (1700x1000) here: files.gregmills.com/decim8grid_12.jpg

Light effects caleidoscope

02-12-2019

Luci serali sul 3° ponte

The original photo was of Lake Michigan at South Pier during the weekend's waves &winds. Monday's strong storm further inspired me. Photoleap was used to create this image.

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While i was looking at the pictures I took for this week MACRO MONDAY , I found this wonder. It is a test shot, done only for testing lights and focus, but is so fascinating that I couldn't help to publish it.

There is something primeval, is a blend of liquid and ethereal, organic and alien...

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That is another image that I created a tutorial of how to do it in photoshop. abduzeedo.com/magic-lighting-effect-photoshop

Tampa, FL

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This image with a radial blur. At the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri.

Still learning After Effects and having fun.

Photo detail run through countless app effect iterations on an iPad Air with Procreate, PhotoWizard, and Brushstrokes. Many colors were changed, sometimes entirely. And the art effects were mixed and sometimes inconsistent, like posterization, oil painting, and plaster. My focus was on overall arrangement of color shapes and on texture. As with most pictures (both mine and those of other people) some parts seem to work and others fall short.

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View from Gyro Park, Victoria

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad 1973

CAST:

John Philip Law (Sinbad), Tom Baker (Koura), Douglas Wilmer (The Grand Vizier), Caroline Munro (Marigiana), Martin Shaw (Rachid), Kurt Christian (Haroun), Takis Emmanuel (Achmed)

PRODUCTION:

Director – Gordon Hessler, Screenplay – Brian Clemens, Story – Brian Clemens & Ray Harryhausen, Producers – Ray Harryhausen & Charles H. Schneer, Photography – Ted Moore, Music – Miklos Rosza, Visual Effects – Ray Harryhausen, Production Design – John Stoll. Production Company – Morningside. USA 1973

SYNOPSIS:

Sinbad fires an arrow at a strange creature that flies over his ship, causing it to drop the amulet it is carrying. Ashore, the sorcerer Koura attempts to forcibly take the amulet from Sinbad. Sinbad is granted refuge by the benevolent ruler of the city, the Grand Vizier, who has been forced to hide his face behind a beaten gold mask after Koura burnt it with a fireball. The Vizier shows Sinbad a companion amulet and the drawing of a third one. All three form a map that leads to a fountain of youth on the island of Lemuria. With the complete amulet, The Grand Vizier will be able to stop Koura’s ravages on the kingdom. And so Sinbad and the Vizier set sail on an expedition to Lemuria. However, Koura desires the amulet too, wanting to regain the youth that each spell he casts steals from him, and sets sail determined to stop them.

COMMENTARY:

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) was a landmark in fantasy cinema. It was often imitated over the next decade. Most importantly, it brought to prominence the name of special effects man Ray Harryhausen and his fantastical creatures. Ray Harryhausen was a specialist in the process of stop-motion animation where models are meticulously moved and photographed one frame at a time. Harryhausen went onto a substantial career over the next two decades, creating similar flights of fantasy. (See below for Ray Harryhausen’s other films). He would revisit the Sinbad mythos twice, here and later with the disappointing Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977). The Golden Voyage of Sinbad is one of Ray Harryhausen’s most acclaimed works and one that shows him at the height of his art.

With The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, Ray Harryhausen employed director Gordon Hessler, who emerged out of the English horror cycle in the late 1960s (see below for Gordon Hessler’s other titles) and Brian Clemens on script. Brian Clemens had worked as script editor on tv’s The Avengers (1962-9), wrote a number of films during the English horror cycle and went on to create series such as The New Avengers (1976-8), The Professionals (1977-83) and Bugs (1995-8). (See below also for Brian Clemens’s other titles). Most Ray Harryhausen films tend to be set around Harryhausen’s provision of creature effects, with the intervening action being stolid and his leading men tending to a uniform woodenness. Although the dialogue here has a tendency to fall in clunky pseudo-profound aphorisms at times, Brian Clemens creates probably one of the more nuanced scripts for any Ray Harryhausen film. Particularly original is the character of the sorcerer Koura who ages every time he casts a spell.

Brian Clemens and Ray Harryhausen also plunder world mythology somewhat indiscriminately, ending up with what often seems a peculiar multi-cultural polyglot – there is Kali from Hindu religion, a griffin and combination centaur/cyclops from the Greek myths, the homunculus from mediaeval alchemy, Lemuria (an idea that was posited by biologist Ernst Haeckel in the 1870s, preceding the notion of continental drift, of a sunken land in order to explain how lemurs managed to get between Africa and India and one that was quickly appropriated by the 19th Century Theosophist movement), and of course the backdrop from the Arabian Nights cycle. This is the less important than the spectacular beauty of Ray Harryhausen’s various set-pieces which, by this time, were at the absolute peak of their form. Harryhausen offers us a six-armed statue of Kali brought to life in a sword-duel; a to-the-death battle between a griffin and a cyclopean centaur; a magically animated ship’s figurehead; and, best of all, the homunculus that Tom Baker brings to life, teasing and prodding it, as it lies pinned to a table.

The Golden Voyage of Sinbad is also notable for many of the up-and-coming stars. There is Tom Baker who, the following year, would become the fourth incarnation of tv’s Doctor Who (1963-89); cult queen Caroline Munro; and Martin Shaw, later hunk hero of Clemens’ superior action man tv show The Professionals.

Ray Harryhausen’s other films are:– The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953), the granddaddy of all atomic monster films; the giant atomic octopus film It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955); the alien invader film Earth Vs. The Flying Saucers (1956); the alien monster film 20 Million Miles to Earth (1957); The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958); The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960); the Jules Verne adaptation Mysterious Island (1961); the Greek myth adventure Jason and the Argonauts (1963); the H.G. Wells adaptation The First Men in the Moon (1964); the caveman vs dinosaurs epic One Million Years B.C. (1966); the dinosaur film The Valley of Gwangi (1969); Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977); and the Greek myth adventure Clash of the Titans (1981).

Brian Clemens’s other scripts are:– The Tell-Tale Heart (1960), Curse of the Voodoo/Curse of Simba (1965), And Soon the Darkness (1970), See No Evil/Blind Terror (1971), Dr Jekyll and Sister Hyde (1971), the Disney ghost story The Watcher in the Woods (1980) and Highlander II: The Quickening (1991). Clemens also wrote and directed Hammer’s Captain Kronos – Vampire Hunter (1972). He has acted as script editor and producer on the tv series’ The Avengers, The New Avengers, The Professionals and Bugs.

Gordon Hessler’s other films are:– Scream and Scream Again (1969), The Oblong Box (1969), Cry of the Banshee (1970), Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971), Kiss Meets the Phantom/Kiss in the Attack of the Phantom (1978) and The Girl in a Swing (1988)

REVIEW: Richard Scheib

bad news, man. landlord kicked me out. I gotta move.

damn, that's too bad. moving is the worst.

yeah, I hate it. plus, I've accumulated so much stuff. it's unbelievable what's in here. and the thing is, I can't bear leaving any of it, either.

you're taking it all?

yeah, I gotta.

even. . . .even this giant thing?

man, I gotta keep that! I've been through so much with it! it's like a part of the family!

yeah, I know. but, dude. how are you gonna get it out of here?

drive it, of course.

drive it? does it even run?

you mean it might not? don't even say that!

ok, you didn't hear it from me. I'm sure it'll start.

thank goodness. you had me worried there for a second.

it's in perfect shape.

I know! isn't it?

totally.