Robyn
01-26-2008, 08:28
Well my usual wierd sense of humor has taken me on yet another damned fool crusade.
I do a bit of video production work and have always been fascinated with the "composite" still images" and paintings.
Recently I got a 10MP DSLR to fill in the gap in the hardware and then it was time to step up to the big leagues and get me feet wet in Photo shop.
A friend had version 6 that he was not using any longer and offered it as a gift.
Hmmmm this was starting to get interesting.
I was cruising through some pix that might lend themselves to the learning curve and found a shot of the Pacific Ocean that we had taken a couple years ago.
It was a nice shot but with nothing particularly noteworthy in it.
The day was heavily overcast and the ocean was rough with loads of heavy surf.
The spot we were standing was a low bluff that rolled down to a spot near the waters edge.
There were tire tracks in the dark sand from a rig that had been there not long before.
I decided to drop DaHooooley into the frame and see what I could do with the tools.
The process did not take long to figure out but it was still pretty boring and needed something.
Now keep in mind that I am still cruising through this giant rollaway of tools (Photoshop) and every drawer has something new to play with in it.
After about an hour of just poking and experimenting I found some kewl little toys and decided to have some fun.
A day at the beach is what resulted and left me giggling a lot. The more I tweeked on it the wilder it became and the better I liked it.
My goal with some time is to create composite pictures with many incongruent items all blended together.
I love photoraphy and the computer tech makes the possibilities almost endless.
Now mind you I have spent my share of time fighting with the electronic magic boxes to get everything working.
Finally had to set up a computer just for video and photo work to get rid of all the gremlins.
Possibly a hand crank on the puter would help. Hmm maybe I should remote mount the PMD. :D
Just though I would share and let others titter a bit too.
Best
Robyn
I do a bit of video production work and have always been fascinated with the "composite" still images" and paintings.
Recently I got a 10MP DSLR to fill in the gap in the hardware and then it was time to step up to the big leagues and get me feet wet in Photo shop.
A friend had version 6 that he was not using any longer and offered it as a gift.
Hmmmm this was starting to get interesting.
I was cruising through some pix that might lend themselves to the learning curve and found a shot of the Pacific Ocean that we had taken a couple years ago.
It was a nice shot but with nothing particularly noteworthy in it.
The day was heavily overcast and the ocean was rough with loads of heavy surf.
The spot we were standing was a low bluff that rolled down to a spot near the waters edge.
There were tire tracks in the dark sand from a rig that had been there not long before.
I decided to drop DaHooooley into the frame and see what I could do with the tools.
The process did not take long to figure out but it was still pretty boring and needed something.
Now keep in mind that I am still cruising through this giant rollaway of tools (Photoshop) and every drawer has something new to play with in it.
After about an hour of just poking and experimenting I found some kewl little toys and decided to have some fun.
A day at the beach is what resulted and left me giggling a lot. The more I tweeked on it the wilder it became and the better I liked it.
My goal with some time is to create composite pictures with many incongruent items all blended together.
I love photoraphy and the computer tech makes the possibilities almost endless.
Now mind you I have spent my share of time fighting with the electronic magic boxes to get everything working.
Finally had to set up a computer just for video and photo work to get rid of all the gremlins.
Possibly a hand crank on the puter would help. Hmm maybe I should remote mount the PMD. :D
Just though I would share and let others titter a bit too.
Best
Robyn