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Art Every Day Month 10

Author: lilisokey

It's time for Photo Art Friday, and I tried something new again.

In Ann Baldwin's fantastic book "Creative Paint Workshop for Mixed-Media Artists" I saw her working with photos of which she used the negative. Luckily, on one page she explains how to get that negative look, because I had no clue but liked the look a lot (CTRL+i on a PC, or in PSE go to Layer > New Adjustment Layer > Invert). So I took a photo from a sunset in Bandon, OR and inverted it:

This is wonderful to use in a mixed-media piece (print it out on regular copy paper so that you can mess around with it). But I thought, there must be more that you can do to a picture like this. And I started to play around.

First I used Jerry's texture "Photo-Tints-Orange" (color burn at 100%), copied that (color burn at 50%) and then added Bonnie's texture "Acceptance" (darker color at 75%). Adjustment Layer for hue/saturation and I was done. I very seldom work with color burn or darker color blending modes etc., but I'm getting the hang of it - sure, the photos are exaggerated, but I do like the transformation.

At Bonnie's Photo Art Friday you can find many more super-talented photographers. I also link this to Art Every Day Month where you can find a whole bunch of wonderful artists.

Category: AEDM, Oregon, Photo ART Friday, Photoshop, texture 0 comments

Process of Elimination

Author: lilisokey

Many of you know how much I like to read Kat's blog The Kat Eye View of the World. At the moment she writes about a very interesting topic, the process of elimination. I use this a lot - either while I'm taking photos or afterwards with the help of Photoshop.

Here are a few examples, all taken in the port of Brookings, Oregon.

I really loved the colors of the buoys on this boat, but there was no way that I could get closer. So I took a picture of the boat...

and then cropped it until only the buoys were left.

Same here - I really liked the crab cage, the way it sat on the pier and was reflected in the water:

By cropping closely I also was able to eliminate the other more distracting reflections and the rope:

Or here, where it was the color again that caught my eyes, but it was too far away. I was able to crop out the blue house, and then I used the wonderful tools of Photoshop to get rid of the poles:

However, I got close enough to this boat, the "Earl Green"...

to get a close up of this detail...

and to get a closer look at the texture of the boat's paint:

If you want to see what other photographers did you can follow the link here.

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August Break #19 - Oregon Sky

Author: lilisokey

I'm still thinking of Oregon...

Linking to Skywatch Friday.

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August Break #12 - Emma

Author: lilisokey

Hi, I'm Emma.

I live on the Oregon coast, in a parking lot where there are lots of tourists who feed me. Nice folks. At least when the weather is good. You know, the weather is quite temperamental up here. Not always sunshine and blue skies. Many days it's rather cloudy, windy and pretty chilly. I kind of like it that way.

Okay, folks, there's a RV coming into the parking lot. Looks like they're going to have a picnic. I have to check out their sandwiches.

See you later!

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August Break #11 - Oregon Dunes

Author: lilisokey

During our trip up the West Coast, we camped in the Oregon Dunes and spent one day at the beach where I took this photo. To kick it up a notch, I edited it in Photoshop Elements and played around with textures. I ended up with three different photo by changing the blending mode of just one added texture.

In the top picture I wanted to achieve a pink after-sunset mood:

"Polaroid-7-vintage rose" by Shadowhouse Creations, Overlay at 70%

Levels adjustment

"Dustyrose" by Kim Klassen, Saturation at 50%.

Then I played some more and came up with a completely different effect:

"Polaroid-7-vintage rose" by Shadowhouse Creations, Overlay at 70%

Levels adjustment

"Dustyrose" by Kim Klassen, Luminosity at 50%

After that I created a more wintery scene that reminds me of glaciers and a really cold bay:

"Polaroid-7-vintage rose" by Shadowhouse Creations, Overlay at 70%

Levels adjustment

"Dustyrose" by Kim Klassen, Exclusion 100%

No big changes in the "processing", but quite some different outcome.

Here's the original, rather boring photo, straight out of the camera:

Which one is your favorite?

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Sunset Trees

Author: lilisokey

The trees you can find at the coast always fascinate me. I don't even know what they are called. Is it a Monterey Cypress? I have no idea. And really, is it so important? I enjoy their beauty anyway.

While in Bandon, Oregon, we were lucky to experience a gorgeous sunset without any incoming low clouds. Of course we took the opportunity to shoot away happily and capture this amazing light. I love the shape of the tree, the way they lean a little bit inland after enduring all the strong winds. Their silhouettes are just stunning and don't stop to amaze me over and over again.

Back home, I got this itchy feeling... and loaded a picture up to Photoshop Elements and started to play around with textures and overlays, until I got this. It somehow reminds me of Africa. We just need a cheetah hanging from one of those branches.

Here's what I did:

"Photo-Tints-Orange" by Shadowhouse Creations, blending mode at 100%

"Polaroid-4-bokeh" by Shadowhouse Creations, blending mode at 80%

"White Frame" by Shadowhouse Creations, blending mode at 20%

This is my entry for Inspiration Avenue's challenge "The Forest for the Trees".

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Back from the Sunset Coast

Author: lilisokey

We just returned form our two weeks trip up North on Highway 101 along the Oregon and Washington coast. It was a very relaxing, quiet trip - we didn't have any special plans or destinations that we wanted to reach. When we liked a place we stayed there for a while. There was lots of time for reading, writing and even sketching and painting. It was one of the most beautiful trips I ever had.

We explored fisher ports like this one in Brookings,