Stormy Weather

[purplehaze]

This is my first attempt at posting an image via TapaTalk.

https://flic.kr/p/SaKMcL

The image started as a flash photography exercise, but ended up in the Adobe playground I have assembled on my new iPad.




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[purplehaze]

Okay, that was a fail. TapaTalk will let me enter BB code, but the Flickr app doesn't offer me the code that the browser does, and I don't know how to select and copy the code from the browser on an iPad. Time to read the manual, I guess.



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[purplehaze]

Third try:




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[mugge]

Janis, I love it. I like it when people do something out of the ordinary.
Cheers Ole

[bnnrcn]

Very nice treatment Janis I love the colors and the texture .

[Donald]

Third try

Well done.

And wonderful to see folk thinking out of the box and creating work that flows from their vision and imagination.

[Wavelength]

Excellent work; really liked its novelty

[Tronhard]

A really interesting and striking image Janis - excellent work! I would be interested to see it beside the original one.

[JohnRostron]

What a weird and wonderful Image! Congratulations on your imagination.

John

[IzzieK]

Godd job, Janis...is this fabric??? ... just curious.

[purplehaze]

Thanks for the encouragement, all; I had some trepidation about how it would be received.

The subject is a plexiglass sculpture that was designed to evoke a freighter cutting its way through the Northern Passage. It was a replacement for one my mother and I found at a Montréal art show many years ago, and that was damaged in shipping. The original was a lot nicer as it had deeper facets cut into it that served to really give you a feel of the layers of the ocean. We bought it for my father, who was in the grain business, as it reminded us of the grain boats that carried our prairie wheat out of Churchill to Russia and other northern countries.

Anyhow, I thought it would be interesting to shoot with filtered flash, so I put it in a light tent to eliminate reflections, and placed a blue filtered flash on one side of the tent, and a green filtered flash on the other. I shot it at a variety of angles and DOFs and with different lenses. The tent was a bit small to hold the thing, so I was somewhat limited in my options.

This is the image that I ended up processing, shot with the 70-200 mm, and not cropped. I think most of the texture came from one of the Grunge presets in Snapseed.

The more observant among you will perhaps notice that the boat is sailing out of the frame, rather than into it.

[Rita]

I really like images like this that are different. Good imagination!

[purplehaze]

Thanks, Rita. In truth, it was less the product of imagination than experimentation. But it was fun to do.

[Mike Buckley]

ended up in the Adobe playground

That's a very, very nice playground you have there, Janis!

[Rainforest]

Nice use of light and texture to create your stormy scene. Nicely done.