Abstract carnations taken for today’s Flower of the Day with a difference! 🙂
Abstract Carnations
Tag: digital art
Digital Colour Corrections
Sometimes I find it frustrating that my watercolour paintings (including this abstract leaf print) always dry so much paler (and less vibrant) than I might like, but luckily with easy digital manipulation I’ve discovered I can visually ‘correct’ the colour when photographing and saving it as a digital image!
Here is the original painting before and after whacking up both the contrast and saturation by 30 (whatever that numerical value represents!) – I’d wanted it to feel like a bright explosion of colour, not a dull disappointment… 🙂
Filter Effect Roses
Filter effect roses for today’s Flower of the day 🙂
Creative Blur
I’ve been messing about with one of the floral art images I posted the other day – it started life as an image of dahlias growing in the garden, turned into a negative using the green channel, then I’ve taken a zoom burst photograph of the resulting image on my laptop screen – et voila! Both creative and blurry! 🙂
Floral Art
When I think of garden art I think of playing about with photographic images to create artistic floral images like these – fun to experiment with, and often with surprisingly pleasing results! 🙂
Bright Colours
Bright colours to cheer me up on a Sunday, just because… I took a close-up picture of a vase of tulips on a long exposure while moving the camera diagonally, then turned the image from a positive to a negative… it made such lovely colours! 🙂
Variations on a Theme
Sometimes I take a photograph of something and think – nope, the difficult light and dull colour is all wrong, that’s just too boring an image to keep. But often there’s something about it that means I don’t want to trash it completely…
That’s what happened with this cactus flower sitting on my kitchen windowsill, I loved the shape of the flower outline but nothing else about the shot. So I uploaded the image to a free online filter site and played about with a few different filter effects until I found some I liked…
Here are my three favourites, variations on a theme of adding some colour without detracting from the pale flower shape – much better! 🙂
Kayak Water Polo
When walking along the Caledonian Canal at Muirtown Locks over the new year I saw a group of people playing what seemed to be kayak water polo in the canal basin – it was gray and raining, and the colours were really dull, so I brightened up the images with an online art filter post-processing effect 🙂
Zoom Burst Christmas Colours
Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week asks for images with holiday colours – so here are the colours of my Christmas tree, taken creatively as a variety of zoom burst shots 🙂
Just Blue
Another image for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge: Blue this week – a close up of the centre of a rose, made into a negative rather than a positive image creating a beautiful blue abstract look 🙂
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