Having started this image months ago I abandoned it. Jill reminded me of it and so I reluctantly had another go! I used the original textured image and simply added more. It created this picture up on Fickr. Unfortunately the quality was too small as a ‘keeper’ being only 72 dpi, so I started again. […]
Apr 25, 2010 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: antique Liasons, Cyprus Haze, France, Necropolis, Paul Grand, Tex Box 1, Tex Box 2 | Comments Off on Canal avenue
Another one of my “out the car window” shots where I’ve had to do a little “cleaning” of the pesky fence posts that appeared in the raw image -what would we do without photoshop 🙂 This was taken in the early evening light on our way home from visiting family in Central Otago over Easter. […]
Apr 08, 2010 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: Algae, Necropolis, New Zealand, peach blush, Tex Box 1, Tex Box 2 | Comments Off on Power Line
Goodness, how time flies on the net! Last week we received an email asking for fuller recipes of our early images from way back, at the time of last summer’s launch. It came as a surprise to me as I couldn’t remember our early blogs being so minimal! Thus, to rectify at least one post, […]
Jan 30, 2010 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: barn, Elysium, France, Leaky Garret, Necropolis, Paul Grand, Tex Box 1 | Comments Off on white barn II
A freezing walk on our local French beach with friends and their dogs over the weekend, produced this simple image. The glow of the cold mid-winter sun warmed by applying several flypaper textures and this time, no colour tweaks!I’m typing this whilst looking out over gently falling snow flakes,Europe and this, our northern Mediterranean coastline […]
Jan 08, 2010 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: beach, Caramel soft, figures, Flypaper Textures, France, French, Languedoc, Mediterranean, mid-winter, Muscatel.cold, Necropolis, Paul Grand, Raw Linen, sand, Tex Box 1, Tex Box 2, vacation | Comments Off on Homeward bound
I was emailed a few weeks ago, asking how to create a mist effectwith textures. My tardy answer is now shown here (sorry Bob!) This image was captured on the mountains last January.I’d not used these particular images because although I shot them in raw, It still had blown out areas.However, with our new textures […]
Jan 03, 2010 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: apple blush, bright, France, French, Getty, grunge, Languedoc, Leaden Hall, Mediterranean, mist, moody, morning, mountain, Necropolis, Paul Grand, pines, sun, Tex Box 1, Tex Box 2 | Comments Off on morning mist
From Jill and I we’d like to wish you all a gilded Bonne année!Its funny how the best shots are never planned!Yesterday, as it was sunny, I went for a drive in search of fresh images.Its continually maddening that all the best views are from our motorways and they are impossible to access without doing […]
Dec 31, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: apple blush, Caramel soft, Colosseum Sienna, Flypaper Textures, France, French, Getty, grunge, Languedoc, lost void, Mediterranean, mid, moody, moon, Muscatel, Necropolis, painterly, Paul Grand, telephoto lens, Tex Box 1, Tex Box 2, tree, trees, vacation, winter | Comments Off on Moon tree ~ Bonne année !
I’ve kept this one back a few months because it was a first try-out with the as then unpublished; Lost Void & Lime Plaster textures.Its just a shot of Geraniums & ivy on our north facing window ledge.They caught the sunlight glancing off the stone house windows opposite.I liked the way this texture combination gives […]
Dec 29, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: apple blush, Flypaper Textures, France, French, Geraniums, glass effect, Green, ivy, Languedoc, lime plaster, lost void, Mediterranean, Necropolis, Paul Grand, photoshop, Still Life, Tex Box 1, Tex Box 2, window box | Comments Off on Geraniums
We drove past this windmill many times on the way to the beach,situated on a hilltop overlooking the Mediterranean salt marshes.Thankfully we managed to stop a few times at sunset on route home to capture it on camera.I was lucky because it was cut down this year, it was really sad to see the top […]
Dec 07, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: big sky, coast road, derelict, Flypaper Textures, France, French, Getty, grunge, hill top, illustrative, iron, landscape, Languedoc, Mediterranean, moody, Necropolis, old, old time, painterly, pastel, Paul Grand, post fence, salt marches, surreal, Tex Box 1, Tex Box 2, trees, umbrella pine, vacation, Vendres plage, vines, vineyard, wall, water pump, windmill, wire | Comments Off on Wall Story
On the same day but taken just before the last ‘Reflected Light’ posting. This is inside our Beziers Park of the poets, decorated with many stone carved busts. Its made up of two pictures, merged in photoshop, as my Autopanopro was playing up!A more finished/textured version of this image is on my Flickr site. As […]
Nov 29, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: apple blush, Autopanopro, autumnal, bust, Caramel soft, Flypaper Textures, France, French, landscape, Languedoc, Mediterranean, merged, moody, Necropolis, painterly, park of the poets, Paul Grand, photoshop, poet, Raw Linen, statue, surreal, Tex Box 1, trees, vacation | Comments Off on Bust and tree
Whilst on the way to the beach yesterday, with a slight sea mist over the vineyards.I came across this derelict farmhouse in a sea of golden vines.‘Chasse Gardee’ I’m told, means strictly licensed hunters only. Apple Blush – Soft Light Opacity @ 29%Raw Linen – Overlay Opacity @ 100%Necropolis – Overlay Opacity @ 39%Caramel Soft […]
Nov 15, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: apple blush, Caramel soft, clouds, derelict, distance, farm house, farmers field, Flypaper Textures, France, French, golden, grunge, landscape, Languedoc, moody, Necropolis, no hunting, no shooting sign, painterly, path, pathway, Paul Grand, poles, Raw Linen, Ruin, stakes, track, trees, vacation, vineyards, warning | Comments Off on ape
Another human for our professional readers!Taken on a professional Portrait shoot with French Artist, Martine Roch a couple of years ago. This one was never used but I now like the little surreal looking figure with a bucket in the corner!It was shot in that cold, sharp April light, the shadows being so dark, it […]
Nov 12, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: Artist, beach, blond, breakwater, Caramel soft, carrying, carrying on, concept, Contra jour, figure, figures, Flypaper Textures, France, French, Getty, golden, Languedoc, leaving, lone, man with buck, Martine Roch, mature, Mediterranean, moody, Necropolis, painterly, parting, Paul Grand, pink, portrait, Raw Linen, reflected light, reflector, Sea, single, strong, surreal, surrealist, Tex Box 1, uplighter, vacation, woman | Comments Off on Life goes on
Quinces are such beautiful fruit, well not to eat raw, but cooked they’re delicious,quince conserve, quince paste….yum!As well as being nice to look at they have such a lovely fragrance -a bowl of quinces can scent a room. Another photo from last autumn, these quinces are from my tree and were turned into quince paste […]
Nov 02, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: basement, Dunedin, farmhouse, fruit, Getty, group, grunge, indoors, Jill Ferry, lonely, moody, natural light, Necropolis, New Zealand, Orient Express, quinces, rustic, Still Life, three | Comments Off on Quince Trio
This is in the south of France in my local languedoc area.There were many old windmills, but these are fast disappearing.This one overlooks my old village as seen from a farmers side road.I’d never seen it before the other evening! For this bucolic sunset scene I used three flypaper textures,two of them doubled.Bruised Saffron Soft […]
Oct 24, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: apple blush, autumn, big sky, Bruised Saffron, clouds, decay, depression, desolate, distance, dramatic, farmland, Flypaper Textures, France, French, Getty, golden hour, grunge, landscape, Languedoc, left, lone, lonely, lost, Mediterranean, moody, Necropolis, Necropolis Soft, old, old times, outmoded, Paul Grand, postcard, published, red, rural, rust, surreal, Tex Box 1, undergrowth, vacation, vista, wind, windmill | Comments Off on Gilded
During the golden hour, I came across a vineyard bordering a pine woods, and had to stop for a quick shoot.Its a simple two texture combo, Caramel Soft (full blur) with the soft light setting @ opacity 92%.Necropolis again with soft light @ 100% opacity and fill @ 79%.A slight vignette was also used to […]
Oct 22, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: arch, Caramel soft, concept, countryside, forward, Getty, golden hour, grunge, Languedoc, Mediterranean, Necropolis, over the hill, path, Paul Grand, pines, published, rustic, summer, Tex Box 1, trees, umbrella pines, vacation, vineyard | Comments Off on over a hill
I rediscovered this one when I was hunting for something to process earlier, my archives are full of things I’ve forgotten about -mainly because I have such a hard time finding anything!Anyway…after much playing with different texture combinations and then tying to get the tone “just right” this is what I came up with.Necropolis -Overlay […]
Oct 10, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: bottle, Bruised Saffron, dark, flower, Flypaper Textures, grunge, indoors, Jill Ferry, moody, Necropolis, New Zealand, Raw Linen, rose, Still Life | Comments Off on Rosa Antiquus (with recipe)
I spotted this wonderfully lit building whilst coming out of a Beziers art gallery one Sunday afternoon, the weather was a little washed out and everything looked bleached gray except this eighteenth century building painted a cool shade of ocher.Naturally, when I uploaded it was washed out too..:-/So out came the rich flypaper textures to […]
Oct 07, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: Beziers, bleak, bordom, building, Caramel soft, city, concept, depressing, Ed Hopper, Elysium, France, French, gray, green shutters, grunge, Languedoc, local, moody, Necropolis, painterly, Paul Grand, Pompeii Stucco, Raw Linen, sky, stone, sunday, surreal, Tex Box 1, winter | Comments Off on l’ennui du dimanche
A simple use of Flypapers Raw Linen in full blur mode.Blend hard light Opacity was 100%, fill Opacity @ 94% Necropolis texture was used to finish.Blend soft light 48% and fill opacity @ 57%. Just these two textures were used to create an almost ‘sepia effect’ of a visitor, perhaps from the past.
Oct 03, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: concept, Flypaper Textures, France, French, Getty, illustrative, Languedoc, lone, man, Mediterranean, moody, Necropolis, photoshop, Raw Linen, sand, Sea, sepia effect, shaw, soft, strange, stranger, surreal, Tex Box 1, vacation | Comments Off on visitor from the past
This is a favorite view of mine, taken from St Nazaire cathedral in Beziers, looking N/West. The water mill is best seen in winter because the trees obscure its view. In this image I wanted to be rid of the pesky houses at the bottom, so I simply cloned them out! It took over one […]
Oct 02, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Flypaper Tex Box One, Uncategorized | Tags: filter, Flypaper Textures, France, French, grunge, landscpe, Languedoc, Liaisons, Mediterranean, Necropolis, Paul Grand, photoshop, poster edges, river, Tex Box 1, vacation, valley, view, water colour effect, water tower | Comments Off on View from St Nazaire
In this quick and easy tutorial, I’ll illustrate how I transformed this photo of honesty in a bottle into something more painterly and rich. Mouseover the photo to see the before and after effects. The first texture I tried was Pompeii stucco, an easy-to-use texture that adds depth. I opened the texture in photoshop and […]
Sep 29, 2009 | Categories: Tutorials | Tags: antique bottle, atmospheric, honesty, interior, Jill Ferry, moody, natural light, Necropolis, New Zealand, painterly, Pompeii Stucco, rich, silver dollars, Tutorial | Comments Off on Honesty (texture tutorial and recipe)
For this misty mountain top landscape, I used just two flypaper textures, Raw Linen @ Linear burn setting 46% and opacity at 63% although I liked it, I didn’t need the texture, so I blurred it with Gaussian blur for a smooth finish. Necropolis was used in Overlay @ 55%, Opacity 56% So we come […]
Sep 26, 2009 | Categories: Tutorials | Tags: colour balance, colour change, desolate, fog, France, freezing, French, Getty, gloomy, grunge, high altitude, Languedoc, lone, lonely, maritime alps, Mediterranean, melancholy, mist, mountains, Necropolis, Paul Grand, simple, sliders, snow, Tex Box 1, tree, Tutorial, vacation, winter | Comments Off on Mist in the trees tutorial
Used my old favourite Necropolis in this one! This is the seedhead of the weed Plantain, a common plant in pastures and lawns but in my eyes at least very photogenic.
Sep 11, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: dark, Dunedin, grunge, Jill Ferry, Necropolis, New Zealand, plant, seed head, Still Life, Tex Box 1 | Comments Off on Plantain
Local clouds often stream down from the distant black mountains,sometimes they can form into violent thunderstorms,but mostly die back by the end of the day. The texture was ‘Necropolis’ but used with a very weak setting.
Sep 09, 2009 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized | Tags: beach, cloud, France, Getty licensed, Languedoc, Necropolis, Paul Grand, Tex Box 1 | Comments Off on Drama in the Sky
