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This image was created from a photograph of a BC forest / park. I used the Gnu Image Manipulation Program aka: GIMP to create a kaleidoscope effect. I went a bit overkill on the color filter, especially the saturation tool. After 6 hours, I ended up with 8 kaleidoscoped variations but used only two of those layers. The center of this image was cut and pasted from one of those variations.
This took me hours, but its been a while since I've done a superimposed picture but I thought you guys deserved one. It took loads of attempts to get the tones and lights right.
I like it :) unfortunately some of my best art comes from when I'm not in a good place
thanx to tudorrose for the backdrop
Before and after is on my my blog
Camera: Minolta A5
Lens: 2.8/45mm
Film: Fuji Superia X-tra 400asa
Aperture/ Exposure: F8/4'
Image Edit: Snapseed, Pixlr Express, Android Gallery App, Photoshop
by Alex Kemp Lomomograph @ www.facebook.com/lomomograph
For the Amazing Circles Group, W.E.T Challenge Wk 1 Apr 06.
Based on the image:
www.flickr.com/photos/katia2702/120292760/
proposed by katia BR.
ORIGINAL SOURCE IMAGE
Well, that's what Ralphie's father exclaimed upon receiving his lamp shaped like a woman's leg in the classic holiday movie, "A Christmas Story."
Eh.....what can I say.
When I first joined this site, I didn't care much for writing in-depth commentary to my photos. I wanted the images to stand on their own. Go take a look at the first dozen or so and you'll see what I mean. Then, for whatever reason, I started putting prose and poetry and my neurotic machinations out there for all the world to experience, and you fine Flickr folk began to take notice. Well, I suppose it was that and the 97 testimonials I've written! Anyway, I never expected to be praised for my ability to match image to word. It just seemed like a good idea. I often wonder if I'd be so "popular" here if I did just post a shot with a one-line caption, if I didn't spill my guts at times or put so much effort into making every upload "perfect." I don't know.
Well, I suppose an acceptance speech is in order.....it being an award and all.
I thank the Higher Powers for their inspiration, my parents for their tolerance and love, Jolene for her belief in my abilities and vision, and all of you here for your encouragement and support. I also want to thank the States of New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, and Kentucky for being such great subjects; my anxieties, fears, and depression for urging me to pick up the camera and be something more than what they make me; and to my 1988 Mazda 626 junker that started me off on the road (literally) to internet-based photosharing on Fotolog.net when I was "Drive By Shooting." A very special mention must also go out to Mrs. Joanne Puleo, my Commercial Art/Photography teacher in high school. You convinced me that the camera is really a conduit between the worlds of beauty and imagination.
And yes, I actually came up with this design myself. When I was made aware of the whole awards thing, I contacted a few of the Admins and suggested people get something tangible to show for the votes, instead of just a mention in a group. So, everyone that is a "winner" will get a personalized image like the one above to add to their very own photostream. Mind you, I'm not one for tooting my own horn, but what the hell. Every little triumph, no matter how small, is a good one. Honestly though, in my opinion, each person here deserves recognition in their own right. I am constantly amazed at the talent and passion and creativity that exists on this site. I sit in awe sometimes and shake my head. You people do indeed rock my socks.
Well, enjoy your weekend, kids. Play safe.
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If you can, please make a contribution towards the disaster relief
efforts in New Orleans by donating to the American Red Cross.
ALSO - To bid on a signed (by myself and Jolene) 10x8 photographic print of my image entitled "Clash Of The Titans" for the Flickr Katrina Relief Auction, click HERE. All proceeds go to the above charity. My talented friend seanhfoto has started the bidding. Now, show him what you can do.
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As a way of returning the extraordinary generosity and support you
have all shown me in this great community, whenever I upload a new
pic or series of shots this year, I'll provide a link to another flickr
photog whose work, personality, or spirit I feel you should discover.
Visit and introduce yourself. Make a friend. Share the love.
Open your eyes to Frederico Mendes today.
I shot Chris against a neutral grey background and then it's all composited in with it's new background in Photoshop, layered and blended, with use of photo filters to give everything an overall balanced colour cast to help everything sit together.
You can see the full version on its own here:
www.flickr.com/photos/bigpicture1966/8184613136/in/photos...
FACING THE MUSIC ON AUSTRALIA DAY WITH KEYBOARD KELLY...
Larrikin Outlaw Bush Arranger, Bruce "Keyboard" Kelly wearing D.I.Y armour (cut from laminated sheet metal music) and bearing his weapon of musical destruction, made a plucky last ditch effort to win his freedom from the Upthecreeka Stockade on Australia Day by correctly remembering the words of the National Anthem.
"Orstrayuns all let us ring Joyce,
For she has knobbly knees...."
er...
"Aussies all are refugees,
'cept ab-o-rig-ines..."
um...
"Ockers all like eating meese,
'Cos they are stuffed with cheese...."
Bugger it anyway, strewth some baaaaaastard crack a tinny!
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Me in one of my suits of Kelly Gang armour. This particular suit was made from scavenged sheets of aluminum bulked out with composite board filling to make it look thicker.
I think Gail took the original piccy that I modified, but the background plate of flag and fence was one of mine.
Oh, and the picture of the keyboard I took seperately as well.
Do I need to explain who Ned Kelly was? Dingo's kidneys, just look him up on wikky, or check out my "RED KELLY" Photoset fer gawd's sake! I gotta bugger off to a barbie!
See yez round like a Lifesaver...
Camera: Minolta A5
Lens: 2.8/45mm
Film: Agfa Vista Plus 200asa
Aperture/ Exposure: F22/ 7h48'
Image Edit: Snapseed, Pixlr Express, Android Gallery App, Photoshop
by Alex Kemp Lomomograph @ www.facebook.com/lomomograph
Image Manipulation:
Part of a new Set called, I'm Touched.
Thanks to the artists for the non commericial use of their Photoshop Brushes:
Vector line dots by IHEA on Deviantart
Cloud Background by Urban Retro SaveAiEdition Deviantart
Glow Brushes by Hawksmont Deviantart
Backgrounds are actual photographs by me
091507 for flickr group Photoshop Art Challenge PSAC
www.flickr.com/groups/photoart-challenge/discuss/72157601...
... I'm sure, she will win! ;)
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if you like music too (as I do), please listen to my jazz compositions
at my soundcloud.com site Paper Plane Factory
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and/or listen to my doughter's talented voice
at her site Sophfire Alphafrau
A cropped detail of the vintage 'flapper' style image modelled on the gangsters of the 20's and 30's.
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. The background here was an old mansion near me that is open to the public.
Strobist:x1 Einstein640 boomed high just off centre right. x1 AlienBees AB800 camera left and x1 AlienBees AB1600 camera right to provide kicker light.
A strand of Virginia creeper crosses the arid sand seeking water and nourishment. Its stems become a crimson shriek of distress as opportunistic bugs attack its weakened leaves. Some shrivel and die. Desperately it produces a profusion of fruit, hoping that birds will carry its spawn to more hospitable climes where the species may flourish again. Nature red in tooth and claw, stem and frond; even a vine may have a savage tale to tell.
Consider the slime mold. For much of its life its individual cells move about the moist forest floor like amoebae, foraging for bacteria. They are such rugged individualists that even their chromosomes are single, not paired like yours or mine. When one of these lonely creatures meets just the right mate, and the conditions are just right—the gentle music of breezes in the treetops, soft dappled sunlight like candles on the forest floor, after a feast on a warm compost of leaf litter and organic decay—they will join together as one cell. Their chromosomes hug and begin to multiply, but their progeny never leave home. Soon millions of chromosome couples, each wrapped in its own nuclear membrane, all live with their parents in a shared a flat, a single giant cell, several inches across, that can look to the naked eye like dog vomit but can slowly move about like the Blob, devouring whatever lies beneath it. With such living arrangements, sooner or later stress is bound develop: all the food within reach is consumed, say, or the water begins to dry up. Word of impending disaster spreads among the nuclei like a rumor, and they spring into action. Some sacrifice their independence for the greater good, specializing and working together to erect from their very flesh great launching platforms with tall gantries. They pack warheads full of tiny cells with unpaired chromosomes, and launch them into space to seek another Eden, where single lonely haploid amoebae will emerge, forage, and then come together and colonize, starting the cycle anew.
Perhaps stress is the true mother of invention.
012008 for flickr group 'what have you done to your cat?" challenge 23
www.flickr.com/groups/323607@N20/
www.flickr.com/groups/323607@N20/discuss/72157603720731579/
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there is always one ...
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if you like music too (as I do), please listen to my jazz compositions
at my soundcloud.com site Paper Plane Factory
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and/or listen to my doughter's talented voice
at her site Sophfire Alphafrau
Made with “Like a Fantasy” kit by Dutch Dream Designs, which you can find here: bit.ly/DutchDreams.
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#Dutchdreamdesigns #photomanipulation #digitalmanipulation #imagemanipulation #digitalartwork #digitalart #digitalartist #digital_art #digital_artist #photoshop #creativeteam
the original here was a heart shaped flame - and a nightshot - but I like it this way ....
large View On Black (recommended)
IDK where I'd be without you and your outstanding support. Thank you all so much for every kind word, well wish, and just being there. You are all so awesome. Thank You.
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if you like music too (as I do), please listen to my jazz compositions
at my soundcloud.com site Paper Plane Factory
_
and/or listen to my doughter's talented voice
at her site Sophfire Alphafrau
The title comes from the native phrase "Walk in Beauty".. and in this case refers to the leaves displaying beauty in this phase, which is, in itself leaving the beauty they once had.
The treatment is a homegrown blending, based very loosely on a manipulation technique referred to as the Orton Technique.
These are hydrangea leaves collected from my front walk.
I had to repost this one...
Im not ashamed of any of my boobiethon pics Im just not in the mood anymore. Im scared.
Today is the last day of boobiethon 2010
Please.... Pray, donate, think good thoughts, do good things, and tell those you love, that you love them dearly. .
Unity is strength.
Knowledge is power.
Attitude is everything.
LiveStrong.
I don't use PixelBenderOils much, but I like what it did for this furry little fellow who bedevils the birds in my yard. He had already made several passes through Photoshop for line and color.
two variations of Amazing Circles, inset back into an altered version of the feather details photo they were made from..
There were some layered duplicates of the two circles, set to blend differently after using the radial blur filter .. all in Photoshop.. two separate macro images of the peacock feather edge were used and color-altered separately, using Hue/Saturation layers.
The starry night was made using photoshops Noise filter, altered at different stages using the Threshold image adjustment, blurring with Gaussian Blur, then adding more noise.
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.
Let's see if there are one hundred thoughts upon seeing this image of a penny floor, converted to an "amazing circle". The original is a shot in the dark of the inlaid floor of the Hotel Congress, Tucson, Arizona. I liked taking an image of multiples, and then turning them back into one "penny" of copper texture. Some of my friends and contacts will know just why I picked this title, in another metaphor.
lee..the warrior, ranked 5 in the pop art photoshop contest on photoshoptalent.com (created by akhisanimations)
My Kitchen Window (with forsythia)
For Snap Game windowsill and some yellow on the previous picture made me think of this one.
You can't really tell from this picture, but the glass in the window is what some of us call *wavy* glass and it was about 90 years old at the time. I don't have the house any more, but the window is now 110 years old.
(polaroid066mykitchenwindowseriesforsythia)
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Sorry this isn't much bigger, but I took it with a Polaroid Camera back around 1990, and did some sliding on it, way before I even knew what sliding was. I dated it 2003 on the picture itself, as that is the year I was trying to learn how to post it and how to put script on my photo.
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"For ABCs and 123s ~ K is for Kitchen Window"
For Dave C., the *soul* of this one was me learning how, right there in this kitchen, to do Polaroid Manipulations. What fun I had!