Something different? Post your working with textures shots here.

[carregwen]

I didn't think it was an issue of someone not being nice, rather, as Rob said, that the discussion was going to be more technical than simple commenting on the success of the photos involved. Would it be fine for there to be a "show-off" thread in the other section, but then more nuts-and-bolts discussion here, maybe?

Elise

I have moved the thread back to photo commentary. I have also changed your first post title to invite postings of similar shots (textures). Subsequent threads that are a reply will not have the new title, but the new title will show in the queues. It's not necessary to start a new thread.

If you want to edit the first post text to add a general invite, you can.

[Antonio Correia]

Hello Elise.
I have been trying to do something similar to what you have done in the first post.
Would you please drop me a line about the procedure ?
Thank you

[mythlady]

Hi Antonio -- I'm sorry, I'm not sure what you're asking me --

[Antonio Correia]

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Hi Antonio -- I'm sorry, I'm not sure what you're asking me --

Hello Elise
I would like to do something similar to what you have done in the picture above.
Can you please tell me how to ? Which texture did you use ? What have you done ?
Thank you

[RichB]

I thought I'd have a crack at this too, the underlying photo I took a couple of weeks ago and I used a couple textures off a free stock site that popped up in google.

[mythlady]

Hi Antonio -- I see now what you'd like. Unfortunately for that particular picture, I didn't keep track of the textures I used (after that I started keeping records), but I'm sure they came from the Flypaper Textures site. But what makes that picture distinctive, I think, are the filters I used in Photoshop -- I used "Paint Daubs" and "Posterize" to make it look less like a photo and more like a painting. On the Flypaper site was an explanation that I followed:

"To achieve the painterly effect, I simply use the 'Colour Noise filter' at a very low setting, then sharpen this with 'Poster Edges' Filter at around 10%.This pulls it together again, the other layers are those with various light levels at differing depths, I sometimes also use the 'Paint Daubs' or 'Water Colour' filters at a low setting and then Poster Edges @ 10% max".

I think you could find similar free textures (the Flypaper ones are not free) at Shadowhouse Creations. He has a lot of great things, including tutorials.

[carregwen]

Not sure if you call this a texture shot. I took the shot of the grave-stone, then got to wondering who John Richard was. I had another shot of a coach-driver in 19th century dress, so I blended the two layers and added some slight texture effects in CS.

[mythlady]

Rob, that's wonderful -- really, really nice. Rich, interesting effect on yours -- did you blend the two together, or did you leave it unblended to get the border effect on the outside?

Here's one I did after a recent "studio shoot" with a burrowing owl:

[Klickit]

El cuto, Elise. I have a real soft spot for owls and that, with him/her looking so directly at us, is a winner.

[nerakkay]

I think this work is beautiful! Thank you for sharing the information.
Karen

[mythlady]

Thanks very much, Kit -- I'm so fond of birds; they show up often in my pictures. That burrowing owl was actually a resident at a nature rehabilitation center, and I was with a group of photographers who were given access to that owl and a red-tailed hawk, who were leashed and with a handler. The burrowing owl likes to be on the ground, so he hopped off her arm and posed for us, and his leashes were not visible in that picture. He was also missing an eye, which is why he was at the nature center, but I gave him a new one through cloning . . .

[Camellia]

Rob, that's wonderful -- really, really nice. Rich, interesting effect on yours -- did you blend the two together, or did you leave it unblended to get the border effect on the outside?

Here's one I did after a recent "studio shoot" with a burrowing owl:

He's lovely Elise.

[Wirefox]

This one incorporates an old shot and some graffiti i captured yesterday

[Antonio Correia]

Well done Steve

I don't know yet but I may guess that this is the way I like to make these kind of pictures.
I like to have all the images from shots I've done to compose and not go and get them from sites.

I have to do more, much more to come to a real consistent conclusion.

[Wirefox]

Thanks Antonio

It is far more satisfying using your own images. When I went out yesterday I had textures half on my mind and came back with some reasonable shots from the local skate park.

The image above started as the following images. The light falling on the steel plate gave much better potential for a a 'texture'

[Clactonian]

Very good Steve. It just goes to show that by having an objective when out with the camera really works.
If you hadn't been looking for textures would you have necessarily spotted the graffiti? OK, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt - those sharp eyes of yours were bound to have seen the shot!!

[Antonio Correia]

Very good Steve. It just goes to show that by having an objective when out with the camera really works.
If you hadn't been looking for textures would you have necessarily spotted the graffiti? OK, I'll give you the benefit of the doubt - those sharp eyes of yours were bound to have seen the shot!!

Indeed. To have a theme / project whatever you may call it is really important.

The theme, neither necessary written nor strictly followed - but generally defined - is in fact a great help. (Does this sentence make any sense to you or have I un-explained myself ?)

I have to make some one of these days...

[Antonio Correia]

I was waiting for my wife to go out and have dinner with some friends and I decided to spend some minutes trying one of those images for the project "Decay".

I ended up on this one which is far too happy for my taste but I like it precisely for this reason.
It will not be inserted in the project for the moment.
Here there are some grafitty on the walls, Steve.

[mythlady]

Very, very nice, both Antonio and Steve -- wonderful images.

I just went to a workshop over the past two weeks, and one of the things we were working on were themes, which you might keep working on for a long time. But exactly what you said, that you go out with an intention rather than shooting randomly.

We also worked on "one camera, one lens" -- using a fixed lens and working within the limitations that that imposes. It was a great workshop -- I really enjoyed it.

[wilgk]

Indeed. To have a theme / project whatever you may call it is really important.

The theme, neither necessary written nor strictly followed - but generally defined - is in fact a great help. (Does this sentence make any sense to you or have I un-explained myself ?)

I have to make some one of these days...

You make perfect sense to me Antonio and I agree wholeheartedly - this for me is the joy/challenge I have in the 'themed monthly challenges' that we have here.
I often lack inspiration on it's own, but give me a topic and suddenly I can see potential...
the potential doesn't always tranlate into a good picture, but that is the fun.