One last go with the techniques of Anna Czekala before moving on for a bit. I did a bit of a mashup with this one by using Anna’s techniques to create the wild background and then added motorcycles I shot at my friend Chris Shaw’s “White Knuckle Ranch” a few years ago. After that, it […]
Project 52 – Week 16 – “Make Your Own Path” Read More »
Week 15 and it’s yet another composition with something that flies! I don’t know why I’ve been doing so many things that fly over the last couple of weeks (ducks, butterflies, pelicans, etc..). This is another one that is inspired by the techniques of Anna Czekala. There are two pictures here, as you can probably
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This is an interesting little piece that popped up out of nowhere. I was watching some training that was looking at some of the art of Anna Czekala. It was so cool cause she would take a rather hum drum picture, sometimes two, and Copy, Move, Warp, etc… those pictures until she got something really
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Welcome to Week 14! Some weeks I really like what I created and other weeks are kinda “meh”. This week is a “meh” kinda week. The one kinda interesting thing in this piece is that there is only one picture that was taken. I took the picture of the pelican probably 12 years ago in
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– Welcome to week 13 of Project 52! If you read my last post, you know that I have been struggling a bit emotionally with Adobe’s AI. Don’t get me wrong, it’s some fantastic technology that I can find millions of uses for. I did use it a bit in this composition. First I will
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Adobe has integrated AI into a new tool in the Photoshop beta called generative fill. It has several things it can do that are pretty cool. For one thing, if there is something in the picture that you want to get rid of, you can do a loose selection of it and press the generative
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Apparently, my seasons are off. My last post was something that looked like it should have been done around Halloween. This one looks like the dead of winter! I thought I might give you a quick tour of the main parts that created this composition. Let’s start with the house. The house in this one
Project 52 – Week 12 – “The House On Keller Hill” Read More »
Go ahead and say it. This is completely out of season. I get it. But the skeletons caught my eye and I wanted to play with them. I shot the skeletons in New Orleans probably 12-13 years ago on a wonderful trip with my best friend (RIP Justine). The background is a picture I took
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This week was quite challenging for me artistically. I tried to pull off a couple of ideas, and they just didn’t work. I tried quite a bit but it just wasn’t working. So in a bit of frustration, I started looking at the work of Sarolta Ban. Sarolta Ban is one of my absolute favorite
Project 52 – Week 11 – “Home Sweet Home” Read More »
This is one that I actually had an idea for and didn’t go chasing digital bunnies to see what would happen. I started out with the idea of wanting to have books sitting on top of tripods made of keys. A little pun about the key to knowledge. I ended up putting it in a
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