April 09, 2012

gilding the lilly, or taking it a few steps too far


click photo for full-size image
photo by Donald Kinney

Well, I was probably wrong, but after I decided on this as yesterday's banner image, I began experimenting with a few ways to accentuate the drama.



click photo for full-size image
photo by Donald Kinney

Again, not that the image is hopeless to begin with, but when I do have a hopeless image my first trick is to "posterize" the image; limiting the number of colors from many to a few.



click photo for full-size image
photo by Donald Kinney

Okay, back to reality...
I'll leave you with a peaceful scene from Rodeo Beach.


CLICK for the very "best" of my work on my photo website.

2 comments:

John @ Beans and I on the Loose said...

Church on Easter Sunday? Nice to see you changing your evil ways. :)

Civic Center said...

You stay away from those hard drug Photoshop Filters. I gave the unphotoshopped version an A.

 
under construction