Something different? Post your working with textures shots here.

[Camellia]

My attempt at Grunge. Image taken at the usual place, "Lake Somerset"

Hi Edwin

It's an Australian classic! It makes me think of bush fires and hot summers. Good stuff!

[Antonio Correia]

Edwin, this is very Paul Nash....with sunshine It reminds me of his piece 'We are Making a New World' with the blasted trees. I love it and it is perfectly composed with the tree's branches holding the sun. Excellent work.

I agree with you Steve. Very nicely done Very creative.
Paul Nash you mean this one don't you ?

[jolee6]

Cambodia palace.

[arith]

I think this is done a little too much; I'm not exactly arty like Antonio or Steve, mostly I try to just put a little life in the pic but this is way more than I'm used to unless it is obvious of course.

Is it too much

[mythlady]

Well, I think "too much" depends on your intention -- you can use textures extremely subtly, as a way of enhancing and bringing out details, or you can use them as in the pic of the ships with which I opened the thread, which in my way of thinking is no longer a photograph but some kind of graphic image. In that case, it's not "too much," because I achieved the effect I wanted.

Does everyone know that this kind of manipulation has a long tradition in photography, going back to Alfred Stieglitz and the Pictorialists? Stieglitz wanted to separate "art" photography from the "merely technical" (or from the snapshots of those with point-and-shoot cameras, which were becoming popular). The pictures in his journal, Camera Work, included manipulation of many kinds, including etching negatives in the darkroom to achieve the kinds of "grunge" effects some of us have been experimenting with.

[Wirefox]

Forgive my ignorance, but who's Paul Nash? I'm a big fan of Steve Parish, the famous Aussie Landscape photographer.

I agree with you Steve. Very nicely done Very creative.
Paul Nash you mean this one don't you ?

The very one Antonio. One of Britain's most influential early 20th century landscape artists and perhaps most noted for his depiction of the Western Front in WW1. Edwin, I try very hard to seek inspiration from other forms of art rather than other photographers. I do admire other photographers work (there are a few on here) but I try not to be influenced by them.

'We are making a new world'

[Antonio Correia]

... 'We are making a new world'

Are we ?

[Wirefox]

Nash was being totally sarcastic when he named this piece. I actually prefer Nevinson as his work reflects at total change in his belief about war. From a Futurist (Beauty exists only in struggle) to a realisation of what war means to the individual and depicting the horror of the trench warfare.

[Antonio Correia]

Just flowers...

[Wirefox]

Very dreamy Antonio, but I am not sure about the balance of the blending here a bit like this one. I just can't seem to get the effect I want...too tired now so I will take a fresh look in the light of day

[arith]

Blue 13%
Lumin 55
Pin 38
Gauss 111p
Screen x4

Flatten
Satin 11
Level 0-1=169

[mythlady]

Here's one I took at the San Miguel Mission in California.



I recently printed it out on watercolor paper, and it came out very nicely.

[Antonio Correia]

[Wirefox]

Excellent work Antonio. Really excellent I can gaze into these forever and see something different with each blink.

Elise you can almost reach in and take that lily...very nice indeed.

This is becoming addictive my humble offerings are all based on a basic theme but with slightly differing layering treatments.....

[Camellia]

Nothing as exciting as Steve's and Antonio's work.



This spot is right near my work and everyday I look at the benches and I think I want to capture that scene. I keep trying but haven't got just what I want yet. This scene is the closest I've come to it. Anyway, I read this tip about cross processing and thought I'd try it out. I then added a texture of a concrete stepping stone in our backyard.

Does it work for you?

[Tinman]

Flower with a tint

[arith]

Originally I got rid of this since it was taken a few hours after I returned from hospital; where I was reminded of my mortality, and I didn't take a shaver with me

But since others are putting depressing pics up, bet you can't beat this. I only had a jpeg and so far I don't get how to work towards something but I think the smoke and glass do it.

[Antonio Correia]

Excellent work Antonio. Really excellent I can gaze into these forever and see something different with each blink.
Elise you can almost reach in and take that lily...very nice indeed.
This is becoming addictive my humble offerings are all based on a basic theme but with slightly differing layering treatments.....

Well done Steve. You have a trend / way / project or like you called it a basic theme. Something I wrote about a few days ago.
Indeed I was too enthusiastic with what I did and I posted the triptych. OK I know it is a triptych already and not one single image but not consistent/persistent enough to be considered as a theme. And a theme is really the right direction.
Look herewith at what the editor of Silvershotz - Clive Waring-Flood - wrote in the last issue. I scanned the page for you to read.
And if you have the chance loot at the work of Fritz Liedthe - published in Silversotz Volume 7 Edition 1 the very same issue - and all his links. Look at the dimension of such a work. Consistent, solid. I am already planning to do something like this but for now I will not tell you about it. Sorry. Just not the moment.

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Nothing as exciting as Steve's and Antonio's work.

This spot is right near my work and everyday I look at the benches and I think I want to capture that scene. I keep trying but haven't got just what I want yet. This scene is the closest I've come to it. Anyway, I read this tip about cross processing and thought I'd try it out. I then added a texture of a concrete stepping stone in our backyard. Does it work for you?

Yes Raylee this works for me. I mean I like it. It is not among my preferences but I like it. We can't like everything can we ?
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David is that flower made on paper ? Looks pretty nice the way you are presenting it
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Originally I got rid of this since it was taken a few hours after I returned from hospital; where I was reminded of my mortality, and I didn't take a shaver with me But since others are putting depressing pics up, bet you can't beat this. I only had a jpeg and so far I don't get how to work towards something but I think the smoke and glass do it.

Well Steve, let me tell you frankly: Your picture doesn't impress me and doesn't make me feel sad or whatever. I can't see anything wrong with you in there my friend Wrong bet.
I understand - yes I do - that you would feel miserable at that time but that is your point of view. Try again Steve. Look at the picture with other people's eyes and pass to them how anguish of bad you were feeling at the time.
Make something really strong. I think I am being too harsh now but I know you from here for some time and I am sure you, not only agree with me, but you will not get mad at me either.
OK ?

[Wirefox]

Steve, this is an incredibly moving photograph. For me this is exactly what people photography is about. It is full of that real feeling and intensity that cannot be set up, acted or posed.

It is hard to show yourself to others at a time of such trauma and I do feel privileged to see such an open and frank image from you.

Steve

[Antonio Correia]

Steve, this is an incredibly moving photograph. For me this is exactly what people photography is about. It is full of that real feeling and intensity that cannot be set up, acted or posed.

It is hard to show yourself to others at a time of such trauma and I do feel privileged to see such an open and frank image from you.

Steve

Fantastic how different people can read images in opposite directions ...