Week 8: Reference 1/1
Overwhelming! That’s the quality of work I’ve seen in this mentorship. It’s been difficult, if not impossible to choose just one favorite.
From Edward Norton’s Jaws series, Marsha Leigh Jane Levine and Birka Wiedmaier’s stunning creations, Françoise Dhulesia’s amazing experiments, to Stephanie Cassiday-Krueger’s gorgeous images (this being my favourite) https://plus.google.com/117223458215550908230/posts/5a71t1PcJAB and several street photos, I’ve spent 7 weeks scraping my jaw off the floor.
I did try several different images. I think this could be pushed a bit more, but I know I’ll be away for the rest of the week and I don’t want to miss the deadline.
All through the mentorship, I never did get to try out any tiny planet imagery, so taking some inspiration from Karen Migliaccio’s sensational post-https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/photo/103230537267238998479/6433355574924301122 I give you
Vortex Banking
Instead of using an application, I created the background using the rotation blur technique we learned in the first week.
Blur with software got the sun and fountain into the image.
The birds came in on their own layers and finished it off with Color Efex Pro.
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This experiment you did here is stunning! : the rotation blur is perfect, the colors are gorgeous and autumnal, and the presence of the birds add to the overall mystery! Brilliantly achieved!
Thanks for the mention, Lucille! I have loved your work, it has inspired me. I have also really appreciated your humour and the way you were narrating your weeks in your Plus Posts!
This is stunning and a creative way to do it!! I’m happy you liked my image, thank you Lucille Galleli !!
Fabulous combination of ideas and tools! I love how you’ve brought these elements together to create a lovely reference in a different way. I’m glad you tried some of the others as well, definitely lots to love from everyone throughout the program!
How wonderful to see the birds caught willingly in that splendid vortex … splendid image! 🙂
This is gorgeous Lucille Galleli, this look has a wonderful dreamlike feel. Thank you so much for mentioning me. I feel the same about everyone. What a group to be together and share art.
Awesome!
Super result Lucille Galleli!
Lucille Galleli
A fabulous creation. The vortex is drawing everything into its space and yet the golden light makes it feel as if it a warm and fuzzy place to enter. Thank you for the mention and I remember the image you posted in your intro with the man and his swirling hair. Another bit of vortex only this time not spinning but moving upward.
Excellent stragedy to use your knowledge and tools to create this stunning image Lucille Galleli!! The rotation blur is perfect for the tiny planet effect and I love how your birds seem to fly in exactly the correct direction. In this swirling world of blurs, you have flown with strength ever forward…..
We have a destination and, hopefully, an arrival date??? ;))
So much creativity, mood and imagination in this one image, Lucille Galleli!
Ha ha! Jaws . . . Actually this was my first tropical snorkelling expedition where I didn’t see sharks. When I swam of the coast in Thailand, there were hundreds. Well this is a modern day take on Alfred Hitchcock’s – The Birds! Magnificent, a fearful vortex feathered fiends!
What a wonderful process. You built a very stunning image. So much energy and the birds are perfect.
Amazing image Lucille Galleli and thank you ever so much for admiring my photo you referenced here! You have brought to much fun and interest to this group. You have a wonderful way of walking us though your steps and your moods and it is reflected so well with your images! I just love the feeling of the circling birds and eternity represented here!
Thank you so very much, Françoise Dhulesia, Karen Migliaccio, Alex Lapidus, kay phelps Birka Wiedmaier Marsha Leigh Sonali Dalal Kitten KaboodleInc Jane Levine Carmen Mandich Margrit Schwarz Edward Norton Red Caldwell and Stephanie Cassiday-Krueger.
I’m so glad to have explored this new world of photography alongside you.
This is not an image I would have though up or tried, but your inspiration, Alex’s guidance and Heiko’s push the envelope posts have made me explore more avenues than I ever believed myself capable of treading 🙂
Carmen Mandich … aye cap! we do 🙂
Edward Norton…. hearing that there are no sharks where sharks are supposed to be makes me ever so sad.
We haven’t been very good to this planet.