© Jeanluc Verville

You can see the finished version HERE

Strobist:

x1 Einstein640 boomed high just off centre right for main fill.

x1 AlienBees AB800 camera left and x1 AlienBees AB1600 camera right both shot through large softboxes to provide kicker light.

Milton Township Cemetery, Antrim County, MI.

I found this dramatic tree in Castle Eden Dene. I played around with Analog Efex Pro from Google Nik Software Collection to create this magical effect.

~This is photo manipulated picture, created for a photoshop contest site~ -072706

Another quick test using backgrounds created using Daz 3D. Thanks to this great bit of software I can now make my own sets with bits taken from a library of items and structures :)

This is one of the shots I could never find a background I liked to use with it. Sarah-Jane is shot against a neutral grey background and composited into the scene.

Strobist:

x1 Einstein640 boomed high just off centre right. x1 AlienBees AB800 camera left and x1 AlienBees AB1600 camera right to provide kicker light.

Facing Mortality...

Is only a matter of time

Therefore let your soul exalt your reason to the height of passion

That it may sing and let it direct your passion with reason

That your passion may live through its own daily resurrection

And like a phoenix rise above its own ashes.

~Kahlil Gibran

It was about time I did another circle. I got started archiving a batch of images and got snagged by an image I hadn't yet followed through on my intentions for.. then it 'turned' into a circle image, from a suggestion in the cloud lines.

The inset circle image was made from another similar shot, which was color-shifted using a hue/saturation layer, masked with some of the cloud column for more interplay between the blue/black of the column against the orangey-sunrise colors. Then all was rolled into a circle and moved to this base image., where more cloud masking was done to have it appear behind it. Still another layer was used to create the circle's subtle 'shadow', upper right.

This was a sunSet shot, but with this composition, it serves as a powerful sunrise, in a way.

This is a Photohop manipulation of a great photograph taken by Dave, seen in my favorites collection here on flickr. Because the largest size he had online originally was only about 800 pixels in the longest dimension, the crop I used to manipulate the image is very small. The best "amazing circles" are done with high resolution photos that are larger in pixel dimensions to begin with. The group on flickr that has a link to a tutorial on how to do this is here. I got a copy of the original so I could work out a good resolution version that will print very well. This finished image is now larger and shows more detail.

For fun, browse through the group pool for Amazing Circles.

Your towel and a nice hot cuppa tea.

All you need to enjoy the final Apocalypse at Milliways, the Restaurant At The End Of The Universe.

In tribute to the works of the late Douglas Adams, creator of the wholly remarkable Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy.

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The ritzy stone my towel ("Mao" to all his flannel mates) is draped over is a piece of building facade on display at the Melbourne Exhibition Building Gardens. The rest is all down to Photoshop filters. The teacup came out of my partner's Bestest China cabinet. I reckon the End Of The Universe would be a suitably grand occassion to bring it out!

I set up a number of pictures for this year's towel day, none of which I was able to do on the actual day, it was wayyyyy too busy a week for that.

But I did carry Mao (and "Red", my other companion towel) with me all day on the 25th, when he proved endlessly useful to pillow my head on the train, amongst all the other usual duties.

The full version is HERE

Image Manipulation:

Same photo, just blurred the background more than it was originally photographed, and put the cycler's back in.

I enjoy doing that sort of thing, and this one was kind of enjoyable.

Cycling, doing so since childhood. My first bike a Huffy, with an imitation gas tank like a motorcycle. My parents won it at a grocery store drawing! It was a bit big for me, but I grew into it. It gave me a new sense of freedom and my own personal world suddenly was larger.

this is my entry to down under challenge using image 13 posted by tabamajic

Sesión: La fábrica.

Modelo: Ángel.

Estilismo: Ángel.

Por favor, no use esta imagen en los sitios web, blogs u otros medios de comunicación sin mi permiso explícito - Todos los derechos reservados © ARTISVAL Rodolfo Velasco.

Please don't use this image on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission - All Rights Reserved © ARTISVAL Rodolfo Velasco.

Mi web: www.rollcreativo.com/

Go Climb a Rock.

Elephant Rocks State Park Missouri

I think the umbrella is for the intimacy it brings to them. It isn't raining.

060907

What have you done to your cat? group

www.flickr.com/groups/323607@N20/discuss/72157600325980082/

Commission for CK Studios

Listen: www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4o8zArvaXo

My profile at Deviantart: gerbren.deviantart.com/

Please view large! View On Black

This is a photomanipulation using CS3 extended and elements.

I used several photo's from CK Studios and bought stock to create this.

Credits go to the artists/photographers who made the stock I used.

11 resources used, some of them more than once. Hair of all the models is totally repainted. Also retouching and modifying of the painted clothes.

Backgrounds: Bought at Renderosity.

Models, cup, flower: CK Studios; www.modelmayhem.com/CKStudios

Clothing: Bought at Folkvangar store.

Leafs: www.morguefile.com

Most of the used resources can be viewed here: i671.photobucket.com/albums/vv78/Gerbren31/Liberaresource...

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All rights reserved: All the materials/work contained in my gallery may not be reproduced, copied, tubed, edited, published, transmitted or uploaded in any way.

I quite like these 'before and after' images. Shall try to do more of them :)

I couldn't figure out which one I liked better..

Model by Marcus Ranum. You can visit his personal site here www.ranum.com/ Deviant art mjranum-stock.deviantart.com/

My color, cobalt blue, seen as an image of metal fencing that is adjusted with contrast and manipulated with the "amazing circle" technique. For those interested, the original photo used is similar to the one uploaded a week ago of this coil of fence. There are several more of these macro shots that I am still working with now. Every so often I get an urge to just have some play time in Photoshop and tonight's experiment was fun.

A demonstration of the potter's art at a fundraiser for the Cape Cod Roller Derby held at the Church of the New Jerusalem (Swedenborgian) in Yarmouth Port. Go Salty Dolls! Yay Panda-Monium!

Bronze

.... My attempt at Warhol style "Pop Art"

Hey, Ma! Look what I found! Can I keep it? Can I?

another 'amazing circle' transformation, inserting the circles derived from the base image back into the image, and manipulated to simulate 'blueglass' globes, in this case.

I followed the procedure, first, as outlined here: brilliantdays.com/archives/2005/10/how_to_create_a.php ,

and in the flickr Amazing Circles group: www.flickr.com/groups/amazingcircles/discuss/116859/

I Am using the basic wondrous polar coordinates transformations as beautiful in and of themselves, but also as starting points for grounding them in their origins and/or creating new relationships for them.

made with photoshop...with some picture of tractor , camera , warning light , and moto carossery...

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220/365. "Earth" rendered in Adobe After Effects and exported as a Photoshop .psd file.

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Correct view HERE

Another SuckerPunch-derived image. Wanted this one dark and a bit spooky. The building in the background is a mausoleum entrance I shot a couple of years ago, so it's quite fitting in this context :)

My model Sarah-Jane is shot against a neutral grey background and composited into the scene.

All backgrounds are themselves composites of various elements to create a 'hopefully' dramatic theatrical quality.

Strobist:x1 Einstein640 boomed high just off centre right. x1 AlienBees AB800 camera left and x1 AlienBees AB1600 camera right to provide kicker light.

Buffy meets SuckerPunch. Maybe just need some zombies in the background :)

My model Sarah-Jane is shot against a neutral grey background and composited into the scene.

All backgrounds are themselves composites of various elements to create a 'hopefully' dramatic theatrical quality.

Strobist:x1 Einstein640 boomed high just off centre right. x1 AlienBees AB800 camera left and x1 AlienBees AB1600 camera right to provide kicker light.

Digital creation

Thank you all known and unknown friends in Flickr for your visit

There's the copyright symbol .Please respect it!

Processed in fractalius

Correct view HERE

Created with Gimp 2.2 in Linux.

A quick game of monkey-in-the-middle with the dogs, just as the sun goes down.

Sittin' in the shade. Playing a soulful tune :)

I've modified my workflow a little for these newer images. I used to rely on the 'unsharp-mask-to-simulate-dodging-and-burning' trick - but now I tend to work on a 50% grey layer set to 'overlay' and paint black or white of varying opacity onto it to give the dodging and burning effect I'm after. For these pics, at least, it seems to do the job.

Here's the before and after comparison:

www.flickr.com/photos/bigpicture1966/8243335389/in/photos...

The background is from DeviantArt.

Strobist:

x1 Einstein640 boomed high just off centre right for main fill.

x1 AlienBees AB800 camera left and x1 AlienBees AB1600 camera right both shot through large softboxes to provide kicker light.

To be honest. I had no idea where this was going. Just liked the warmth of the image. The background was shot in the grounds of a stately home in Cornwall.

My model Sarah-Jane is shot against a neutral grey background and composited into the scene.

All backgrounds are themselves composites of various elements to create a 'hopefully' dramatic theatrical quality.

Strobist:x1 Einstein640 boomed high just off centre right. x1 AlienBees AB800 camera left and x1 AlienBees AB1600 camera right to provide kicker light.

Had great fun with this shot which evolved from a simple gangster pic into a bizarre alternate reality 30's war image - or some video game poster!!

Sarah-Jane is shot against a neutral grey background and composited into the scene.

All backgrounds are themselves composites of various elements to create a 'hopefully' dramatic theatrical quality.

Strobist:x1 Einstein640 boomed high just off centre right. x1 AlienBees AB800 camera left and x1 AlienBees AB1600 camera right to provide kicker light.

Digital creation

Thank you all for your visit

Model: Jake Mattila

BTS: petridamsten.com/masculinity-part-3/

// Petri Damstén // petridamsten.com

// Contact // @pdamsten

I created this for the Down Under Challenge. I also posted the source image of the great blue heron (see below) for the group to work their magic on.

Time Traveling Plane

Vancouver, Canada