New Idea For Digital Photography Series
I live in Santa Fe, New Mexico where digital photography ideas get easier each day because I find help in the natural landscape and native southwest imagery. For instance, last night I took a photograph of the sunset. The sky was filled with big billowy clouds that were lit from beneath. The fading sunlight brought out the soft blues and browns. The land below was nearly black.
The stark contrast between the earth and sky gave me an idea to introduce an offbeat fence in the
foreground to brighten it up and showcase it.
The fence would be unique because I would build it from quirky fence parts from a photo I took recently in Buffalo, NY.
To the left is the Buffalo, NY image.
In Photoshop, I cut out the spotted door, the white bed frame to the left of it and wire mesh fencing to the right and placed a blending mode on the new image.
Then I used the sky from the first image above as a filter and the resulting image is below:
Using the sky as a filter is something I discovered by accident a couple years ago. It's a bit easier to accomplish in a complete image rather than one cut up like this.
In the last photograph can you see how two images were layered together? This is just the beginning of the process to create a combined image. The last thing I do to an image often leads me to the next step. In this example the new gate does not have enough contrast, The white bedpost does. It picks up the golden brown of the land integrating itself into the photograph. There is more work to be done, but I have a clearer idea of what works. It wasn't my original idea, but that's alright.
This concludes my first official post to my blog.
My aim is to present this brief overview of my process in order generate questions from you the reader. What interests you.?
~Would it be the use of the sky as a filter?
~Or cutting into an image and layering it over another?
~Or how I choose my subject matter?
~Or step-by-step help with digital photography or Photoshop?
I can help explain the intermediary steps and images in all cases.
It will take just a moment for you to post a question to this blog.
Even quicker to write me directly: ruth@ourdigitalphotographysuccess.com
The stark contrast between the earth and sky gave me an idea to introduce an offbeat fence in theforeground to brighten it up and showcase it.
The fence would be unique because I would build it from quirky fence parts from a photo I took recently in Buffalo, NY.
To the left is the Buffalo, NY image.In Photoshop, I cut out the spotted door, the white bed frame to the left of it and wire mesh fencing to the right and placed a blending mode on the new image.
Then I used the sky from the first image above as a filter and the resulting image is below:
Using the sky as a filter is something I discovered by accident a couple years ago. It's a bit easier to accomplish in a complete image rather than one cut up like this.
In the last photograph can you see how two images were layered together? This is just the beginning of the process to create a combined image. The last thing I do to an image often leads me to the next step. In this example the new gate does not have enough contrast, The white bedpost does. It picks up the golden brown of the land integrating itself into the photograph. There is more work to be done, but I have a clearer idea of what works. It wasn't my original idea, but that's alright.
This concludes my first official post to my blog.
My aim is to present this brief overview of my process in order generate questions from you the reader. What interests you.?
~Would it be the use of the sky as a filter?
~Or cutting into an image and layering it over another?
~Or how I choose my subject matter?
~Or step-by-step help with digital photography or Photoshop?
I can help explain the intermediary steps and images in all cases.
It will take just a moment for you to post a question to this blog.
Even quicker to write me directly: ruth@ourdigitalphotographysuccess.com
posted by Ruth Bilowus Butler @ 9:48 PM
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7:23 AM,
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11:40 AM,
Ruth Bilowus Butler said...
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Post a CommentHi Ruth
I liked the photo, and I liked your illustration of the sky as a "filter" (Is filter different than "background"?) But you cracked me up when you asked if the reader can see the difference.
Leonard, Oak Park, IL (macony)
Hi Leonard,
Thanks for stopping in and having a chuckle.
re; difference
It was more of a question of seeing the layering process. Not seeing the difference, but
seeing one image resting on top of the other. Because once you realize that then there's more.
Such as, giving the top layer some transparency or erasing the glass in a window thus exposing the image below it.
Filter is different from background.
I'm speaking of the way the light filters through one image changing the appearance of the one beneath.
I'll post one or two examples a little later.
Thank you for your observations and post, Leonard.
I trust everything is going well in Oak Park?
Ruth
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