Nisqually River Valley Farm digital painting
Last weekend, I went up to the Yurt with yurtmeister Pat and Stan from Ohio and on the way home with Pat driving, I sat in the backseat and made some photographs with my Canon G9 camera "Pocket Pal".
Each time I drive the Nisqually River Valley, I see this scene and at least a couple times have pulled over to visually explore this landscape. I don't recall making any photos there in the past but this trip while cruising down the highway, I pointed the camera and pushed the doohickey.
I was experimenting using various ISOs and shutter speeds for different motion blur effects and for this image I jacked up the sensor sensitivity setting to ISO 1600 which for the G9's sensor is too noisy to use except for documentation type images and fine art... In this case, a digital painting.
I optimized the 1/2500 sec at f/8 RAW image capture in Photoshop Lightroom 3 and then took it into Photoshop CS5 for the 'painterly' digital manipulations including adding texture using the graphic pen filter with multiple direction pen strokes and embossing filter and affecting the image with multiply and soft light blending modes and did some cloning and other Ed stuff...
Here are the before and after versions:
before
Nisqually River Valley farm
Cascade Mountain Range
Washington state, USA
©2011 Ed Book
Peace
Each time I drive the Nisqually River Valley, I see this scene and at least a couple times have pulled over to visually explore this landscape. I don't recall making any photos there in the past but this trip while cruising down the highway, I pointed the camera and pushed the doohickey.
I was experimenting using various ISOs and shutter speeds for different motion blur effects and for this image I jacked up the sensor sensitivity setting to ISO 1600 which for the G9's sensor is too noisy to use except for documentation type images and fine art... In this case, a digital painting.
I optimized the 1/2500 sec at f/8 RAW image capture in Photoshop Lightroom 3 and then took it into Photoshop CS5 for the 'painterly' digital manipulations including adding texture using the graphic pen filter with multiple direction pen strokes and embossing filter and affecting the image with multiply and soft light blending modes and did some cloning and other Ed stuff...
Here are the before and after versions:
before
Nisqually River Valley farm
Cascade Mountain Range
Washington state, USA
©2011 Ed Book
Peace