With Easter on its way, hopping through all this thawing snow, I thought I'd try something a little experimental as well as seasonal with our textures. I was after an antique surreal scene, perhaps in the style of the old master Alfred Stieglitz 'Camera Work'. I used...
Paul Grand
brushes (with the law)
In my little old French house I have a kind of a studio, where the walls are still rough as I've not yet decorated . It used to belong to a Dutch professor of colour therapy. He's still in France because I keep getting his speeding tickets! Anyhow, he said this top...
The Chase
This is proof that it pays to keep your camera handy! I just managed to capture the lead figure before he was lost into shadow. The before image has already had the Painterly effect and a texture. I removed the green lens flare by painting the warm texture tones with...
Beach lookout
Back at the beach lookout, the same beach as the red boat picture and on the same day. I'd have to describe this as a bone effect. Firstly, I processed as below then finished with a final colour tweak. This removed the warm tones left by the textures. Finally, I...
retro red boat
Back down from the mountains, on our local French Mediterranean beach the other day. I spied this washed up boat with sea foam in one of our local salt water lakes or 'etangs' in French, which are just behind our sand dunes. To achieve this easy retro look I first...
snow hedge
Another grungy snow scene from the plateau at the top of our local southern French mountains. Shot towards the sun in raw mode with the polarizer lens. Lost Void - Opacity - Overlay @ 100% Lost Void (flipped vertically) - Opacity - Overlay@ 100% Colosseum Sienna -...
Valras from the sea
This is a view of my local resort of Valras. I don't go too often as its normally crowded with vacationers from up north, but winter offers off-season opportunities of sleepy dereliction! This image is taken from above the sea, on a rock Jetty. Its a kind of view...
smooth skater
In the north of France, Martine and I visited an ice-skating rink. As there were some kind of championships taking place we took our camera's and spent a very cold hour or two, shooting hundreds of ambient lit photographs. I'd never been to such a show before and was...
edge of the pines
After waiting for snow for much of the winter, I finally gave in and drove up into our local mountains in search of the precious white powder! After a great day and many worth while captures, this was the final shot, with a polarizer filter in raw mode. Taken during...
white barn II
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...