Distorted Flower V

Kim:

 

All four of your flower distortions appeal to the experimentalist in me -- although this one is my overall favorite by a very narrow margin.

 

What I admire here is your sense of restrained playfullness which is perhaps most noticable in the pinwheel effects. Also, the color palette seems just perfect with pale pinks, whites and a yellow/orange accent against a dark green background.

 

Finally, the thing which I like about all the photos in this series is the way you managed -- though your camera angle and manipulative techniques -- to maintain the essential textures of the leaves and petals. This lends the entire image a sense of depth and subtantiality.

 

Best --jim

You did it

Thanks for your kind comments. I love "playing" with PS, but sometimes people don't seem to like anything other than "real" photos, so it's nice to see others like the manipulated images, too!

I know you may not want to, but could you provide a little more information as to exactly how you are manipulating these photos within Photoshop? Just wondering... You certainly do not have to give away your secrets if you don't want to... Excellent work!

Very underrated photo, you have quite a talent here.

You really inspire me here. Beautiful work.

I use a distortion filter in PS, plus a lighting effect, as well. On this one, I also used the "twirl" filter only in some specific areas (used lasso tool to select them). You have to start with a "good" image, or it just doesn't work. PS will not "fix" a bad image with these filters I'm using here. Your original needs to be sharp with good lighting, although you can adjust levels to fix lighting somewhat. For each decent distorted image I get, I probably discard 10 others because they don't work. The cropping also affects what you end up with. I can take the same image and crop it five different times before I get what I want. So it's not clearcut and simple to do this, but I think it's an interesting take on common flowers. Thanks for taking the time to look!

Nice work, Kim!

You have so many elements working beautifully together in these images -the flow of the lines, texture, lighting and color.

I wish I could add more to the discussion on this, but the essential lyrics have already been song to this magnum opus!

Truly great - what a composition!

I've printed this one out 11x17 - looks pretty cool. I can barely remember now what all I did to it. Thanks for the comments.

Really, really nice Kim. This photo really stands on it's own well - the manipulation, even though obvious, isn't really much more than an afterthought (for me, at least.) Just got a call that my new camera (D70) is waiting for me at the store - now I'm more fired up than ever!

Thanks, Albert. Happy Shooting! I live for photography.

This is gorgeous, an up-to-date Marsden Hartley-type feel. This is one photo that makes me want to try different things.

Mark, if you've always wanted to be an artist, but lacked the talent, PS and/or photography is another way to express your creative side. I've printed these flower distortions out on canvas paper and they look like a painting.

It looks like we think alike in this vein! I, too, have a whole series of distorted flower pictures! www.dustylens.com

Aren't these things fun.

Steve, you are so WAY beyond where I am! You're what I want to be when I grow up. :)

Good technique and imagination; gives me some ideas; thanks;-

This is amazing. Very well done.