Impressionist-style spring flowers
The next Utah Photowalk is Saturday at 5 pm. We're meeting at Thanksgiving Point to photograph the tulip festival, should the weather and blossoms cooperate.
I like to assign myself a little project for each Photowalk, and this time, it's to get familiar with some new filters I bought for my workshop at the Moab Photo Symposium, and to collect some more base images for my examples.
Today's image used no filters, just 9 exposures I made while jumping about in one spot. I stacked the images into layers in Photoshop above a black background. Then I used the screen blending mode for each layer to screen, dropping the opacity to 20%. Why a black background? One way to think of the screen mode is as if two slide projectors were pointed at the same black screen; what you see is the blended image; the black background serves as a blank canvas for my watercolor effect.
Hope to see you out at Thanksgiving Point. More details are at our Flickr site.
Comments (1)
Very cool effect. Monet couldn't have done better with a paintbrush!
Wish we could see Thanksgiving Point with a bit more growth, but we keep coming down there at the wrong time of the year.
Our Saturday has a forecast of 28 in the morning, 37 by afternoon. Hope your Saturday is better.
Posted by Phil | April 17, 2008 10:17 AM
Posted on April 17, 2008 10:17