Wordless Wednesday…ginkgo

Sally D’s Mobile Photography Challenge: Editing & Processing…windmill

I almost didn’t participate this week, feeling mostly brain dead when it came to thinking about editing.  I know photomontage is the new thing, which made me want to try something else, but nothing came to mind that felt fresh.  So I put together two versions of a photo of a Minnesota windmill taken while driving back from Wyoming (with an iPhone held to the side and clicked while I watched the highway) and two shots of feathery things that looked as if they would be blown away (literally) by the windmill. As Sally always asks, which do you prefer and why?

Sally D’s Mobile Photography Challenge: Editing and Processing…editing nature

After a break for travel and fun, Sally’s back with her weekly mobile photo challenge, open to anyone taking shots with non-traditional cameras.  These days, a phone may be the “traditional” camera, but in this case, any device not sold as a camera would qualify.  Sally, I hope you enjoyed your much-deserved break, but I did miss having a set challenge last Monday.  However, I not only survived, but had a wonderful Thanksgiving.  What I really wonder is this?  How can it already by the end of November???  At least now I can officially be excited about getting ready for Christmas.  🙂

On to the editing.  In the pair of photos of the leaf with frost, the first shot is the original and all the editing I’ve done is the frame.  I didn’t even enhance the color, which I would normally have done.  The second is edited with DistressedFX, then framed in Picasa.

The first of the following set of three is the original and the next two are done in Glaze.  I still find the iPhone too small for me to feel comfortable editing on it, so I do the editing on my iPad, then send the photos to my laptop.  It’s fun to play around with editing, that’s for sure, but there are so many options and combinations that it could occupy me forever.

I went for just a bit of Impressionism here, but much more out there for the second.

 

Sally D’s Mobile Photograph Challenge: Editing and Processing with Various Apps…

“A still life (plural still lifes) is a work of art depicting mostly inanimate subject matter, typically commonplace objects which may be either natural (food, flowers, dead animals, plants, rocks, or shells) or man-made (drinking glasses, books, vases, jewelry, coins, pipes, and so on).”  (Wikipedia)

For this fifth Monday, when we use themes from Week 4 to show various editing a/o processing techniques, I’ve chosen a still life.  However, I’m fudging a bit, as my still life is still alive.  My objects are natural (flowers and plants), but I didn’t pick them, only photographed them.  Nevertheless, I hope you enjoy them.  If it makes you feel better, imagine a dead rooster next to it, something that comes to my mind when I think of a still  life.  🙂

I apologize a tiny, tiny bit for all the photos, but I was having way too much fun with this and then I bought 10GB more space (as I was down to less the 1.5% left), so I went just a little crazy. Thanks for bearing with me.  Sally, if you would link me when you see this, I’d appreciate it.  I won’t be around much on Monday or Tuesday.  Thanks in advance.

Original

Focal B&W with highlights

DistressedFX

Focal B&W with shadows

FotoSketcher

DistressedFX