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Now... when that I was come properly a great way up the Gorge, and had come among the fire-holes, there was no more an utter darkness, for the dull red glare of the pits beat upward upon the black sides of the rock-mountains, that did make the sides of the Gorge; so that oft I did see both sides very plain in the lower parts; yet of the height of the Gorge, who might know aught; for the black sides did go upward for ever into the everlasting night....
~from Chapter IX of William Hope Hodgson's novel The Night Land
This is an illustration I crafted based upon the early-20th Century science fiction novel that established the "Dying Earth" genre, The Night Land by William Hope Hodgson.
Sometimes called a "flawed masterpiece" - and there are valid arguments on both counts - "The Night Land" surely is a great novel. I can't think of another novel I've ever read where the protagonist skulks and hides in abject fear, even literally crawling on hands and knees, as a normal condition of travel throughout the quest. That taps into primordial depths of absolute terror - the kind that pervades my being with full, thickly-rich horror that freezes action and makes me incapable of rational thought. Yet the protagonist does think rationally. It's his accepted reality, that environment; nothing more threatening not only to life but to the eternal existence of personal awareness as the soul - or worse, the eternal enslavement and demonic possession of the personal awareness of the soul. This is the world of the Night Land... the world where a knight in shining armor (literally) sneaks and creeps his way at times to rescue his damsel in distress. (A damsel who, once rescued, proves to be something more than a helpless damsel.) The accepted normalcy of this world that is a hazard to life - and to eternal life beyond death - allows the character to experience the full range of human emotion, including - incredibly - curiosity, and ACTING ON its impulse! Skulking on hands and knees in abject soul-risked fear and following through with the impulse of curiosity! Is there a genre of Heroic Horror? This would be its definition... :)
The image began as a long-exposure shot of lights at night on the highway. Through application of Photoshop's gradient map filter, Genuine Fractals (to increase the resolution to 530 pixels/inch), honing of the randomly-produced image of an armored figure (including adding a weapon from the novel, the Diskos, a sort-of mini-buzz saw on the end of a retractable pole), applying another Photoshop filter - craquelure (64,8,10) - and finally selectively adding red tint - what you see here is the result.
(I love Photoshop's random gradient map feature. It randomly applies gradient maps to an image, cycling through them every time you click "randomize". Amazing, artful Rorschach images flicker in front of me and, from time to time, an image is suggestive of something other than the long-exposure light trails of the original photo. The complete randomness of what suggested image may appear before my eyes makes scrolling through random gradient maps highly addictive to me - addictive because my imagination is on high alert, hungrily-receptive to what might next be presented to it, knowing full well that experience has proven that creative visions and rich, colorful tales have been born through this activity.... Yup... I love Photoshop's random gradient map feature...)
Take a look at the image in the large or the original size.
Oh - btw - I now have a set on my flickr site to collect anything I post relating to The Night Land.
I took this on holiday as I thought the Mill would look good in B&W. Digital Photo had a cross-processing procedure using Gradient Maps, so I decided to try that. The shadows have been replaced with Dark Blue & the highlights by Pastel Orange.
Our daily topic - technology
Stacks of laptops await software update. I had fun playing with the gradient map in photoshop. Those are encryption keys sticking out in case you are wondering.
Another picture of the snowy morning. This is a burn near my house that usually looks fairly depressing but I have never seen it look so beautiful.
A re-edited Walking Dead promo photo featuring Daryl, incorporating a graphic novel effect.
Created in Photoshop using a gradient map and various filters.
Daryl photo: www.flickr.com/photos/92390205@N06/
...on Mars. Good thing the nearby colony had a tank to give the ship a tow.
Steampunk universe, e.g. Space 1889.
The image is actually a photo that I worked in Photoshop. The spaceship is a vintage pressed-steel toy with wooden wheels. The tank is a toy from the 1930s. They're set on a crumpled shirt that had its folds merged into red rock outcroppings in sand dunes. My bedroom window was in the background - you can actually make out one of the curtains on the left side (converted into a part of the terrain). I applied a gradient map, which gives the image the general appearance you see. The bright yellow is how the sun's highlights on the scene turned out.
Btw, it's just a quirk of the shirt's folds and the gradient map that produced the seeming half-buried statue head under the rear of the tank's treads. I copied that section to fill some of the terrain on the right without noticing the face. Only later did I recognize it - and that in copying it, an even better one was produced!
Take a look at the image in the large or the gigantic original size view.
This statue in front of the Iowa State Capitol in Des Moines is thought to be the only one showing Abraham Lincoln and his son Todd Lincoln together. I colored the photo in Photoshop CS3 using a variety of techniques to color the statue. Then I selected the sky area and used a gradient map to match the color of the sky to the colors in the statue. The reason that I colored them separately is that the sky wasn't matching the statue when I tried to do them as one unit, so I colored them separately. I feathered the sky selection, by the way, to make the edge softer where it met the statue. Please visit my Photo Tip of the Day blog for daily tips on shooting and editing. Copyright 2009 www.jeffwignall.com.
My first attempt at trying some vintage processing. Not quite convinced this works but perhaps that is because I am drawn to soft and gentle! I followed Kim Klassen's latest tutorial at beyond layers for this and used a gradient map and the texture revolution. Taken in my bathroom as it is the only place in my house with darker tones!
ODC - Warm and Fuzzy....I have had this Ted since I was one so he is quite precious!
Beyond Layers
Mammatus clouds are some of the most unusual and distinctive clouds formations with a series of bulges or pouches emerging from the base of a cloud. The shape of mammatus formations can vary widely; from the classic protruding shape, to a more elongated tube hanging from the cloud above.
Cumulonimbus clouds are also known as thunderstorms, these clouds are huge and often unstable. Mammatus clouds often form on the most unstable cumulonimbus, meaning that there is also a chance of hail, showers and lightning in the vicinity. Sometimes mammatus may form on other cloud types which produce no rain, though this is far less common.
Mammatus comes from the Latin mamma which translates to "udder" or "breast". Their striking appearance is most visible when the sun is low in the sky and their pouches are framed by the sunlight. This supplementary feature is a firm favourite with many meteorologists and cloud enthusiasts.
Andrè has reached the corner on the block
of burning shops. He pauses... tips his ray-
gun where he peers through an inferno rocked
by intermittent blasts. The heat that way
would be enough to melt his skin, unlike
the lesser heat of flame engulfing him
so far. His systems are designed to take
extremes and function; not his skin. The slim-
est chance of coming through still looking hu-
man is worth taking, knowing what the time-
line is to service superficials. New
skin's hard to come by. Saving skin's no crime.
With one last look at flaming store-fronts down
the street, he signals all-secure downtown.
© Keith Ward 2009
Click here for more about this image and this series, SF Sonnets.
The image is best viewed in the large or the original size.
This is pretty much sooc for me. Which means it started out nothing like this. But only 5 minutes ago.
BlackJacks GMC pickup at the Clip Joint Show. Image property of BTSphotos.com. ALl rights reserved. View On Black
Our little poser - I got our dog to sit and stay while i snapped off a bunch of pics, She was more then happy to oblige. I've heard my friends refer to her as our "Hand Slut" :D
Processing: Well, the only thing I've really done is put a b&W gradientmap on at an angle so it comes in just below her eye.
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A re-edited Walking Dead promo photo featuring Carol, incorporating a graphic novel effect.
Created in Photoshop using a gradient map and various filters.
Carol photo: www.flickr.com/photos/92390205@N06/
I managed to get a shot of this sans the crowds of people because Kim and I managed to arrive on the hottest day of the year.
Tech: Canon A590 IS with a Hoya R72 infrared filter mounted. Handheld. DNG processed with Adobe Camera Raw. Lens correction done with PTLens. No noise reduction. Additional post processing in PSCS3.
Explored August 10, 2009, #411
A Photoshop Elements gradient map was applied to this image, resulting in this forest scene.
Take a look at the image in the large or the original size view, if you like.
The original photo from which this image was derived was a close-up of a weathered pipe (the weathering became the star-field). There was a tiny red bit of vegetation (Seed? Bud?) stuck to the pipe, and that became the rocketship after a bit of manipulation.
This image is one of many I've been posting with a 1950s pulp illustration visual style.
An orange sky over Henley Lake would make a wonderful shot, wouldn't it? I've never really played with Gradient Maps in Photoshop Elements before, so I experimented a bit with this otherwise very dull photo of Henley Lake. So no, folks, it didn't really look like this. :)
Her 2013 Halloween costume--supposedly witch's attire tho reminded me more of a goth take on the French maid's outfit.
A re-edited Walking Dead promo photo featuring Hershel, incorporating a graphic novel effect.
Created in Photoshop using a gradient map and various filters.
Hershel photo: www.flickr.com/photos/92390205@N06/
A re-edited Walking Dead promo photo featuring Beth, incorporating a graphic novel effect.
Created in Photoshop using a gradient map and various filters.
Beth photo: www.flickr.com/photos/92390205@N06/
Over the next week or so I'll be posting photos from the Second Annual Harrisburg [PA] Zombie Walk held Saturday October 30, 2010, at the Harrisburg Mall.
This is a photo of one zombie in the walk. I cropped the image, applied a gradient map using Photoshop Elements, and adusted color/brightness/contrast.
I'm tangled,
like the curls of my love's hair,
like a snake encharmed,
I turn and twist.
What is this knot,
this dizzy maze, this snare?
All I know:
if I'm not tangled here,
I don't exist.
--Rumi*
Having natural hair is a love/hate relationship at times... but at the end of the day it's a part of who I am.
Rumi is an 13th Century Iranian poet, yet the words speak so well to some of the stuff I've been dealing with right now.
*This was translated by Zara Houshmand. You can find some more of his poems here: www.iranian.com/Arts/rumi.html
Tech: Canon A590 IS with a Hoya R72 infrared filter mounted. Handheld. DNG processed with Adobe Camera Raw. Lens correction done with PTLens. Additional post processing in PSCS3.
Alternate title: Adrift.
The unfortunate spaceman is a 40mm Marx figure from a Tom Corbett Space Academy toy playset. The rocketship is a wooden, handpainted model, probably from the 40s or 50s, that picked up at a flea market long, long ago.
Take a look at the image in the large or the original size view. (In the original size, of course you'll see my unrefined patches.)
You can use a Gradient Map to change color dramatically in a color or even a Black and White image in Photoshop CS. It is very simple to do. The tutorial is here:
photoplustutorials.blogspot.com/2009/12/gradient-map-in-p...
One from last year's term 3 photography assignment.
This shoot was great fun because I got to cover my friend in leaves ^_^
A re-edited Walking Dead promo photo featuring Carl, incorporating a graphic novel effect.
Created in Photoshop using a gradient map and various filters.
Carl photo: www.flickr.com/photos/92390205@N06/