Flip and Blend - Nov. 2010 and Beyond

12/22/2010 08:22:15 PM · #376

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Is everyone (ETA: except Marion, of course)bored with this subject yet? I'm not.

Probably everyone is getting ready for the Big Day.

Anyhow: The variation this time is the "Effects" area with drop shadows, inner and outer glows, etc. etc.
In #1, after doing the flip n blend, I made the oval and put it on a separate layer (for the uninitiate Control F does the trick), and applied the options, making sure to change the drop shadow color to blue. Then worked levels on both the background layer, and the layer containing the oval to make a nice contrast, before flattening.
In #2, I first selected just the tent and put it on a separate layer, and applied options as above - in this case also adding 'texture'. Then did the flip n blend to the entire image & rotated.

Many possibilities for originality here, I think. May play with this one for a while.

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Canon 12x IS USM (S3 IS built-in Lens) -- 36-432mm (35mm EQ)

12/23/2010 01:25:15 PM · #377

Originally posted by sfalice:

Is everyone (ETA: except Marion, of course)bored with this subject yet? I'm not.

No, just haven't been getting out to shoot much. Yesterday I went by the hospital; they're building a new one across the street, with lots of interesting lines to work with. I started with the big crane ... note that the last three are exactly the same edit, but with different sets of Curves adjustment layers applied.

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Canon EF 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 DO IS USM

12/23/2010 06:10:22 PM · #378

The Amaryllis this year is a beautiful red. Curious, to contrast with the ones I did last year.

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cpanaioti

Canon EOS-40D

12/23/2010 08:43:25 PM · #379

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Nikon AF-S DX 18-105 f/3.5-5.6 ED VR

12/24/2010 11:53:42 AM · #380

Hare are some more experiments with the procedure I outlined last time:

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Notes are on the images.

jomari

Nikon D7000

12/24/2010 03:49:03 PM · #381

Merry Christmas, everyone!

12/25/2010 11:07:45 AM · #382

Merry Christmas everyone!

Canon 12x IS USM (S3 IS built-in Lens) -- 36-432mm (35mm EQ)

12/25/2010 09:32:53 PM · #383

More shots from the other day at the construction site:

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Source:  The first four variations are the same edit with different Curves adjustments:

12/26/2010 12:29:21 PM · #384

Digging deeper into the Effects menu, here are some more. Originals are in the notes section of each one.

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Here's roughly how I did them:
1. CAUTION: If using flip n blend do it BEFORE making new layers

2. Select a color or shape from original, and put it on a new layer (Contol J)
3. Return to Background Layer and select the same color or shape
And then INVERT the selection. Put on a new layer
4. Use Effects palette as wished on one or both layers
5. Use Polar Coordinates separately on one or more layers including the background layer

6. Flatten

Note: If I ever re-shoot the tiny bottle on which the pretty girl resides, I'll probably try to get her whole face in! Then, nearly all of the images I have been working with are random samples very blindly picked from original 'shooting date' files that have never been processed.

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Canon EF 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 DO IS USM

12/26/2010 04:56:32 PM · #385

Watching Lord of the Rings. "D

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cpanaioti

Canon EOS-40D

12/26/2010 06:00:43 PM · #386

Flipped horizontal, blended with hard light
Reverse polar coordinates
Flatten
Flip and blend using hard light
A bit of magic happened, then ....
Flatten

Select center pattern
Duplicate layer, create layer mask
Duplicate layer with mask
Apply regular polar coordinates to one layer and blend with hard light
Apply reverse polar coordinates to other layer with mask and blend with lighten
Here's where I can't remember what I did, but here's what the result is:

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cpanaioti

Canon EOS-40D

Canon EF 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6 DO IS USM

12/27/2010 09:43:11 PM · #387

jomari

Nikon D7000

Nikon AF-S DX 18-105 f/3.5-5.6 ED VR

12/28/2010 11:38:23 PM · #388

I've neglected this thread for a bit, so now I'm going to overindulge from the one original

to all the following,

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Canon 12x IS USM (S3 IS built-in Lens) -- 36-432mm (35mm EQ)

12/29/2010 01:11:34 AM · #389

Originally posted by jomari:

I've neglected this thread for a bit, so now I'm going to overindulge from the one original to all the following...

Interesting ... just before I saw your pictures I was processing this window-plus-shades, also full of straight lines ... ;-)

Variations:

12/31/2010 07:26:55 PM · #390

Okay - I'll seal the envelope for 2010 with this final December piece.

started from

Nothing unusual in the treatment: Four different isolated areas were tortured individually and then had their colors changed. The huge file was then flattened & reduced to less than 1/2 of it's original size and here 'tis.

Happy New Year!

Sony 24-70mm F4 Vario-Tessar T* FE OSS

12/31/2010 10:18:18 PM · #391

the original

*H*A*P*P*Y***N*E*W***Y*E*A*R*

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Bear_Music

Samsung Galaxy S24 Ultra

12/31/2010 11:10:08 PM · #392

In celebration (?) of the global warming crisis, I give you "Flip 'n Flood", my last of these until 2011...

jomari

Nikon D7000

Nikon AF-S DX 18-105 f/3.5-5.6 ED VR

01/01/2011 12:12:55 AM · #393

01/01/2011 12:04:05 PM · #394

starting image

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Canon 12x IS USM (S3 IS built-in Lens) -- 36-432mm (35mm EQ)

01/02/2011 02:23:16 PM · #395

Isaac didn't make it to midnight New Year's Eve, but I couldn't sleep and hadn't taken any pictures that day, so I took a few to mess around with until I could crash ... interestingly, the differences in the first batch are all from using different bending modes, the second batch all color-shifts.

I've also been thinking that some of the repeating patterns made (especially) by the Polar-to-Rectangular transformation, made real small and placed end-to-end, might make an interesting border ...

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Source:  Variations:

01/08/2011 02:19:06 PM · #396