road to the old house

i love seeing isolated old abandoned houses like this-- my pulse quickens as i envision it

filled with cast-away antiques. like always tho, i only came away with photos.

Preciosa, colorista, pictorica.

stunning splash of color and highlights. Delicate and beautiful processing. Not my stye but can recongize its grace.

 

Love it,

Evan

Wow! Very unique and this looks like a painting on linen, so soft and makes one want to see that house down the path and behind those trees! Well taken!

I love the stuff in your portfolio ... and it's rather different than in your "old" portfolio (the forgotten password one). On some of these images, it would be nice to see the original image and then a description of what you did to make it look so painterly. :-)

thanks to all you good folks for having a look. an hour south of this spot is mesa verde national park, an hour west canyonlands, northwest has arches national park and everything east is the san juan mountains. this is a fun summer road to run the dogs.

 

lou ann, my 'trade secrets' aren't all that mysterious: in the darkroom it's the sandwiching of exposures; in photoshop it's the superimposing of layers. try photographing the texture you want to see in your landscape, import it into PS and then fool around with the blending modes, saturation, opacity, etc.

 

rather than show the humble origins of MY photo, i pulled a photo of yours-- a sweet image from your excellent france collection (one that i wish i could've taken)-- and subjected it to (almost), the identical effects as shown with my "road to old house". it has six layers of effects. with yours i added one additional layer: a photo of tall grass for the foreground.

 

tho i intend no expression or implication that my tweaking is better than your original-- it's just a different way of processing.

 

cheers and happy experimenting!

Ah ha, I've discovered a PS Artist extraordinar! Funny what a person will discover when they follow a "road". Your imagery feels like impressionistic paintings by the old Dutch masters. And being one that appreciates the area of which you speak where are all the Arches and Hoodoo's and Red rock canyons?! A different image from that fabled world....and I like it very much.

Whoa! I totally missed that, and I'm so sorry that it's taken me so long to get back to you with my appreciation. I'm glad that Susan commented so that this image came up on my "follow up comments" again.

 

Thank you for showing me what you did ... that happens to be MY absolutely FAVORITE image from France. What you did makes me want to have MPIX print it on canvas!

 

Thank you again - I am working on learning about image compositing. Looking forward to the journey!