Images of the arty kind

[SusanS]

Hi Cliff,

I love the lighting in Yorkshire seven.  Is it natural or have you tweaked it? 

Susan

[ranunculus]

Decidedly tweaked, Susan ... artistic license is permitted and encouraged in this particular thread!   

[SusanS]

Decidedly tweaked, Susan ... artistic license is permitted and encouraged in this particular thread!   

ahh, but how did you do it?

New to this technology lark, can barely get my photos off the camera let alone play with them once they are on the pc. 

[ranunculus]

Hi Susan,
The original image is attached.  I utilised iPhoto for the Mac.  I simply added a sepia tinge in 'effects', then tweaked the saturation and the highlights (just a little), and then tweaked the 'boost' by a factor of three.  The posted image is the result.
Some may well prefer the original, others enjoy the 'arty' version ... simply a matter of taste. 

[David Nicholson]

.............. Yorkshire is such a beautiful place.

Angie

..... and produces such beautiful people too .......

Cracking images Cliff and I'm with Anne in the homesickness stakes.

[SusanS]

Hi Susan,
The original image is attached.  I utilised iPhoto for the Mac.  I simply added a sepia tinge in 'effects', then tweaked the saturation and the highlights (just a little), and then tweaked the 'boost' by a factor of three.  The posted image is the result.
Some may well prefer the original, others enjoy the 'arty' version ... simply a matter of taste. 

Thanks Cliff. 

Will definitely have to have a go myself.

[Paul T]

Cliff,

I'm with Mrs McMark on this..... definitely well worth viewing.

McMark,

Maybe next time you want her to see something and you're unsure of the reception, you could always send a link to her computer?  That way she wasn't forced to move the 2m perhaps unnecessarily.  I really like the idea of his and hers computers, in the same room.  Not sure I have room in my office to do it unfortunately.

[Stephenb]

Anyone happen to have a picture of the Yorkshire village, Mytholmroyd? I would like a picture for an article I'm writing
 

[David Nicholson]

No pics Stephen but it was a place where some of my wild oats were sown-happy memories! Cliff Booker might have some.

[cohan]

lovely images of a lovely area, cliff! love the stone walls (so much more poetic than our barbed wire and the atmospheric misty shots...

over the last months i have been having fun playing with various filters and other manipulations in my freebie photo editing software..nothing terribly sophisticated, but it can be fun to see various things that can be done to an image, from subtle, painterly effects to quite abstract..here are a couple of recent ones...
(more here where you can see them in series:
http://picasaweb.google.com/cactuscactus/November212010Artsy# )

[ranunculus]

Anyone happen to have a picture of the Yorkshire village, Mytholmroyd? I would like a picture for an article I'm writing
 

How soon do you need the image Stephen?  We get across there every so often, so I could take one, but of what?

[annew]

Really nice, aren't they , Cohan? It makes me wonder why we bother to paint sometimes.

[daveyp1970]

Really nice, aren't they , Cohan? It makes me wonder why we bother to paint sometimes.

Talking of painting Anne i have just seen yours on ebay and i must tell you they are incredible and a steal at the price,you are a very talented lady.

[Armin]

Cohan,
I like the alienated images of the rose! It is almost like a watercolour painting.
Which free SW did you use?

[Lori S.]

Nothing "arty" about this one.... it's just last week's cut flowers, ready for the compost pile, but I still find the colours really enchanting and even the wilted petals add to the feeling somehow...