Dew-droppy Photos :)

[Andestine]

Originally Posted by PMG

You had a play with 'effects' and found one you liked - its lovely to dabble - I've enjoyed it too .........

Hello Pauline

I seem to remember just how addictive it was at the time, and am a bit apprehensive of falling under its spell again Now you've posted those beautiful pictures I know it won't be long before I succumb to the siren call

I've seen some of your lovely photos at the landscape Gallery. I was stunned by the very first one I chanced on - a moody stretch of shoreline which I can't find again because I don't know how to work the Gallery yet Could you give me a link? I'd be very grateful (if I've described it well enough, of course)

Cheers,

Andestine

[PMG]

Originally Posted by Andestine

Hello Pauline

I seem to remember just how addictive it was at the time, and am a bit apprehensive of falling under its spell again Now you've posted those beautiful pictures I know it won't be long before I succumb to the siren call

I've seen some of your lovely photos at the landscape Gallery. I was stunned by the very first one I chanced on - a moody stretch of shoreline which I can't find again because I don't know how to work the Gallery yet Could you give me a link? I'd be very grateful (if I've described it well enough, of course)

Cheers,

Andestine

Actually looking at your wonderful coloured pencil genuine artwork makes anything digital a mere bit of fluff in comparison

As for the moody shoreline - well I'm stumped - I can think of the recent one with harebells on but nothing else is coming to mind - I've done a lot of photography on dull menacing almost hopeless days and usually manage to extract something - lets face it this is Britain - if we waited with a camera for only good light - we would be a long time inbetween!!!!

You could scroll back a post and click on at the bottom of my post where it says My Wab Gallery - but beware that would bring them all up and lead to long troll thro as there is a lot in there now - sometime if you have time to spare you might want to browse!

Pauline

[Andestine]

Actually looking at your wonderful coloured pencil genuine artwork makes anything digital a mere bit of fluff in comparison

As for the moody shoreline - well I'm stumped - I can think of the recent one with harebells on but nothing else is coming to mind - I've done a lot of photography on dull menacing almost hopeless days and usually manage to extract something - lets face it this is Britain - if we waited with a camera for only good light - we would be a long time inbetween!!!!

No, no! I love the dull, menacing, hopeless days and the photographs that come from them. Really. I never take photos on cloudless days and love getting out there on the rocks taking photos of storms as close to the waves as I can without getting washed off

You could scroll back a post and click on at the bottom of my post where it says My Wab Gallery - but beware that would bring them all up and lead to long troll thro as there is a lot in there now - sometime if you have time to spare you might want to browse!

Since I started posting here my daughter and I have spent many happy hours browsing through the Gallery I'll look up your web Gallery later and let you know which photo I'm talking about. Thanks so much for the tip

Cheers,

Andestine

[loripo]

I have a copy of an ancient piece of photo software from MS that I managed to keep, and that does various effects, but doesnt work on large images. Andestines Mothman looks a little like the watercolour effects in that and PMG's like the 'edged' effect. I really love the way that makes them look 'drawn' - not I totally agree like the 'real' thing though.
I put a copy in as samples

I save a lot of photos from the Gallery as my favourites - it would be nice to watch them as a slide show
By the way - I usually try this on 'rubbish' photos as the SFX covers up a multitute of mistakes!

[Andestine]

Lori, I'm going to have to try it now - I love the effects on those two above

But don't let that stop you picking up a brush . I found that when I first got a digital camera my sketching went out the window. Now I'm getting back into it again, but still find photography addictive, and can sit there for hours happily tweaking photos.

I know what you mean about the basic faux-drawing/painting effects in general. And it can't take into account all the changes an artist has to make when working from a photo either. Very beautiful in its own right though

Cheers,

Andestine

[Andestine]

Originally Posted by PMG

You could scroll back a post and click on at the bottom of my post where it says My Wab Gallery - but beware that would bring them all up and lead to long troll thro as there is a lot in there now - sometime if you have time to spare you might want to browse!

Pauline, I found it I like that one so much.

South Uist, Outer Hebrides - Wildlife Photography

Now *that's* the kind of shoreline I love to spend time on (never liked pleasure beaches )

I also found this one, which is wonderfully dark and brooding:

Grasmere Lake District - Wildlife Photography

The only downside of browsing through your photos was that they are so tempting, yet I had strict instructions from my daughter that I mustn't look at too many until she could join me for a leisurely look through at the weekend

And now I'll have to become disciplined enough to learn Photoshop. Can you recommend a good plain book for beginners?

Cheers,

Andestine

[PMG]

Originally Posted by Andestine

Pauline, I found it I like that one so much.

South Uist, Outer Hebrides - Wildlife Photography

Now *that's* the kind of shoreline I love to spend time on (never liked pleasure beaches )

I also found this one, which is wonderfully dark and brooding:

Grasmere Lake District - Wildlife Photography

The only downside of browsing through your photos was that they are so tempting, yet I had strict instructions from my daughter that I mustn't look at too many until she could join me for a leisurely look through at the weekend

And now I'll have to become disciplined enough to learn Photoshop. Can you recommend a good plain book for beginners?

Cheers,

Andestine

oh those! you do like them dark and brooding don't you?! Its really good to get your feedback - cos these are shots that I almost binned without any work at all but I told myself they are representative of the weather and how it looks at times - just the opposite of sunny and bright and decided to rescue them!

I'm sure there are books out there and hopefully someone on here with more knowledge than me will make suggestions. I don't get on well with instruction books of any kind ....... I'm better at either playing till something happens (and the trouble with this sometimes is you don't know what sequence of buttons you pushed to get where you are - so you can't always repeat it!!) its so quick on computers - click - hey presto - and something has altered and when you're on a roll trying something new you've pressed half a dozen and got lost in the process!! I'm by far better being shown something - I tend to remember someones voice when they tell me something far better than reading which I seem not to remember at alll these days....

As an afterthought if you go to my zenfolio website and into the Tips and Tricks Gallery - there are sev shots there that I have 'rescued' in photoshop and descriptions of how I did it which might just give you a heads up. Most of what I know I've picked up by myself or thro seeing something on wab and wondering how that was achieved and simply asking (everyone very helpful - none of that old fashioned meaness of 'I can do it but I'm not telling you' attitude here thank goodness!) Photoshop is a grand thing for creative people like yourself - you should have a lot of fun with it

Pauline

[Merrow]

Well I could only find one of my mossy photos on the computer and this one isn't my favourite - I think I should have left the colours natural but saved it and now can't revert it back to normal....

loving the other photos etc on this thread

[loripo]

Oh that's really beautiful, colour and all. Is that dew or sea mist? LIke with the flowers that droplets are so fins.

[Merrow]

All those photos were taken on 'soft' days - the one good thing about living in Ireland is that you get plenty of chances to take this kind of photo