View allAll Photos Tagged sliderssunday
This image is a tribute to Marc Chagall, a young artist who was traumatized by the world he lived in and through his art tried to rise above the horror of war. His paintings often reflected dream sequences of flying above the village he grew up in. The question is, did he succeed? The inspiration for this sliding is a photo I took of a coat, drenched in all the colors of the rainbow, this coat is now a part of Chagall's dream.Art critic Robert Hughes referred to Chagall as "the quintessential Jewish artist of the twentieth century". According to art historian Michael J. Lewis, Chagall was considered to be "the last survivor of the first generation of European modernists". For decades, he "had also been respected as the world's pre-eminent Jewish artist".[15] Using the medium of stained glass, he produced windows for the cathedrals of Reims and Metz as well as the Fraumünster in Zürich, windows for the UN and the Art Institute of Chicago and the Jerusalem Windows in Israel. He also did large-scale paintings, including part of the ceiling of the Paris Opéra. He experienced modernism's "golden age" in Paris, where "he synthesized the art forms of Cubism, Symbolism, and Fauvism, and the influence of Fauvism gave rise to Surrealism". Yet throughout these phases of his style "he remained most emphatically a Jewish artist, whose work was one long dreamy reverie of life in his native village of Vitebsk."[16] "When Matisse dies", Pablo Picasso remarked in the 1950s, "Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what colour really is".[17] Wikipedia
Taken recently on a wet day in Singleton Park when looking for water droplet shots. I have done loads of sliding on this shot - including blurring the background, adding a vignette and lightening up the clump of snowdrops to make it look like light was shining on them (it was most certainly not!) HSS!
Began as just a cell phone capture of a Hydrangea plant at the store. Then I gave it bits and pieces of several painterly effects.
... for Sliders Sunday
If you like anything on my photos, I'm very pleased... just share your kindness, I'm grateful in advance for your views, likes and comments... a lot of thanks :)
single shot light painted from without and within. High up in Death Valley. 115F in the valley, needed a jacket up here. Definitely dark sky.
For SlidersSunday I delved deep into the archives for this shot from the Spring of 2012. Using many different filters and layers, I came up with this simple diversion from the increasing drabness of Winter.
HSS!
A different angle taken from the top of Hotel Dieu, the hospital on the north side of the cathedral.A hospital has been on that site since 651 and has been ravaged by fire on several occasions
For the Sliders Sunday group. Base image created using a Canon PowerShot camera and processed using Photoshop, Fractalius and Quad Pencil.
Happy Sliders Sunday
#sliderssunday
May Day walk on the beautiful castle grounds of Schloss Charlottenburg. This is the back of the palace as seen from the Carp Pond located in the huge château park that nowadays is a popular public park and recreational area not only for the inhabitants of the densely populated West Berlin borough of Charlottenburg but for all Berliners. It was correspondingly crowded on this sunny, hot day that was also slightly hazy from Sahara dust (which is quite a frequent weather phenomenon his year).
When flipping through the images at home, I was quite surprised to see that the palace and the people in the distance were somewhat blurred (at least in the photos taken from this particular spot). Maybe my composition with the trees' branches in the foreground had "confused" the camera's autofocus, and maybe the combination of slight haze and bright sunshine had contributed to this effect as well. I simply don't know, especially because I had taken this image at F/7.1. Maybe this is one of the rare occasions when landscape focus stacking is required, something usually unnecessary with an MFT sensor.
On the other hand, I found the blur in the background quite charming because it conveys the heat, haziness, and serenity of that lovely day quite well, methinks. And it makes for a nice slider as well, true to the mottos "Blur is beautiful" and "Sharpness isn't everything" :)
HSS, everyone, and have a great spring/autumn week ahead!
Original photo below... then...
Photoshop filter "cutout" from the filter gallery,
then adjusted each of the colors swatches.
Added a simple face shape and hair
to resemble a Native American plus
some running horse silhouettes.
Happy Sliders Sunday!
A slightly older shot I wasn’t quite happy with... so I thought that could be a great opportunity to do some excessive editing! Unfortunately I didn’t have any chance to get on my computer all day, and so I just decided to do some editing on iphone - it’s my first attempt at a "Sliders sunday" image, and it is... well, I would probably call it a modest result! HSS anyway!
Wall mural in Galesburg, Illinois. Inspired by a Carl Sandburg verse, "nothing happens unless first a dream."
I decided to take Leilani's advice and do some sort of a series in this spot. I'll see how it goes :)
Happy Slider's Sunday :)
Laowa 7.5mm F/2
#sliderssunday
#Kaleidoscoping
Another one from what is going to be my new "Kaleidoscoping" series (please see first comment for the first picture of this series). I won't post / create all too many images in this style, and only infrequently, but it's great fun to make these crazy kaleidoscope-style image-flipping "mirror worlds". The single image from which I created this was taken during a spontaneous visit to the Deutscher Dom ("New Church", colloquially known as "German Cathedral", although it isn't a cathedral as such; today it is a museum for German parliamentory history) located on Gendarmenmarkt in the Mitte district at the heart of Berlin. What you see is the roof construction of the room right under the cupola (which can't be visited). In that room you can see architectural models of historical buildings from all parts of Germany that played an important part in German (parliamentary) history. I thought that the roof construction was interesting in its own right and took a few shots handheld (as I didn't have a tripod with me and they aren't allowed in museums anyway), using the exposure bracketing function (three images). Thus not 100 percent sharp, but "OK sharp", I think. In PS, I duplicated the workspace, copied the layer with the original image, and flipped that both horizontally and vertically, and then, in Lightroom, rotated the merged image to the left. The result, for me, looks like the heart of giant "sound machine" or "soundship" (a spaceship fuelled by music). I hope you like it :-)
Happy Sliders Sunday, Everyone, and have a great week ahead!
Ein weiteres "Kaleidoskop"-Bild. Ich werde hier eine kleine Serie erstellen, unregelmäßig, auch nicht zu viele davon, aber es macht einfach großen Spaß, diese surrealen Spiegelwelten zusammenzubauen - wenn es denn das Foto hergibt (im ersten Kommentar findet ihr das erste Bild dieser Art). Dieses Bild habe ich bei einem Spontanbesuch des Deutschen Doms aufgenommen, im Raum direkt unter der Kuppel (die man leider nicht besichtigen kann). Der Deutsche Dom zeigt ja eine Ausstellung zur deutschen Parlamentsgeschichte und in diesem Raum in luftiger Höhe kann man Architekturmodelle von bedeutenden deutschen Bauwerken, die im Zusammenhang dazu stehen, betrachten. Die Stahlkonstruktion des Daches war für sich genommen ebenfalls interessant. Das Ausgangsfoto ist aus der Hand gemacht (ein Stativ hatte ich eh nicht dabei und es wäre auch nicht erlaubt gewesen, eins dort aufzustellen), mit einer Belichtungsreihe aus drei Bildern, nicht 100%ig scharf, weil es nicht besonders hell dort war, aber "OK scharf", finde ich. In Photoshop habe ich erst die Arbeitsfläche vertikal verdoppelt, das Foto dupliziert, dann horizontal und vertikal gespiegelt und in Lightroom das zusammengefügte Bild nach links gedreht. Das Ergebnis sieht für mich wie das Herz einer riesigen Musikmaschine oder eines Musik-angetriebenen Raumschiffs aus.
Ich wünsche Euch einen guten Start in die neue Woche, liebe Flickr-Freunde!