I created this using filters and layers in Photoshop.
Chaos
Digital Art
Painted Milkweed
I create this image in Corel Painter from a photograph taken at the 14th Jamaica Bay Shorbird Festival yesterday. This image reflects my mood today.
Red-headed
This somewhat rare bird of Central Park has been very popular recently. Birders in the park have enjoyed sitting by the feeders in the Ramble, talking about the bird and photographing it. There is young Red-headed Woodpecker near 72nd Street on the East side of Central Park that has been there all winter. Neither bird has found a mate.
I took these with my Nikon D750 with a Sigma 150-600 mm lens. the ones that show two birds in a picture are composites.
Misty Iris
I began with a boring photo of some white iris flowers. Split it into muliple Iris and added a background to create this composite image. Adjustment layers, masks and blending modes in Photoshop refined the image.
Balclutha – September One Photo Focus
The rigging in Stacy Fischer’s photo of Balclutha, a full-rigged ship built in 1886 now in San Francisco, was quite a challenge to mask so that I could put in a different backgrround.
Created for Stacy Fischer’s One Photo Focus, September 2016.
I made an animated gif showing 3 versions: The original ship, one with no ice, and then one with ice.
London Mist – August One Photo Focus
Robin Kent’s original (below) was perfect. I straightened the Ferris wheel and darkened the sky in Lightroom. Then in Photoshop, added wisps of mist, and stars to make it mystical (above).
In 1956 when I was seven my mother and I moved to London. It was my job to light the coal fire in our flat at Queensborough Terrace, near Kensington Gardens. Central heating was not common then; therefore, London was a much foggier place. I remember fogs so thick it was hard to see a yard ahead. Coal fires helped create smog, a mix of smoke and fog. Yellow smog was tinged by the Sulphur in the coal. They were called “pea soupers”. The Great Smog of 1952 (Wikipedia) killed many Londoners. Dirty unwashed and untreated coals were eventually banned and smoke free coals and fuels used instead. Now central heating is the norm and fireplaces occasionally used to create ambience.
Created for Stacy Fischer’s August One Photo Focus.
Boats – June’s One Photo Focus
In David Croker’s lovely origianl didnt need much. I changed the time of day and mood first by casting a golden glow and then adding a sky with a soft lightning bolt which I refected in the water.
Created for Stacy Fisher’s June 3 One Photo Focus
Hotel – May 1 Photo Focus
To show it can be done, I took some extra time to remove the dead branches. Not 100% perfect but it will do.
I wanted to change the light and make it a bit more romantic. To do that I used two other photos, one of a sunrise and another of a flowery meadow. In Photoshop I masked parts of them off. I also used overlays; a photo filter to put a little blue back in and a warming filter. The screen capture shows how I masked the layers.
Created for One Photo Focus, May 6, 2016.