Out of the Box Image of the Week for the week ending November 2nd, 2012: Dennis Bishop - Burning Bush Blur
Congratulations Dennis!
This is from an in-camera blur that's been waiting four years to be processed. (No, I'm not catching up. Much to the contrary, actually.) Since starting to work on this a couple days ago, I've been wondering whether it really needed any post-processing, at all. Somewhere in the distant past, I had an ancestor in the hills of West Virginia. Family lore has it that he didn't have a first name for several years. Finally, because he kept tinkering around with things, he was named Tinker. If it is true, I must've gotten an overdose of his genes because I just couldn't post this image without doing something to it.
Nikon D2X, ISO 100, f/7.1, 1/10 sec, 105mm macro lens
post-processing
- Adobe Camera Raw -- Temperature, Tint, Clarity, Saturation, and Luminance
- rotated 180 degrees for composition
- Flypaper Textures -- two different textures, one at Color blend mode, the other at Soft Light
- Joel Olives Texture -- Screen blend mode
- duplicate of background layer at low opacity
- Vibrance adjustment layer
- Nik Color Efex -- Darken/Lighten Center, Vignette (purple)
- Fractalius -- Embo at Normal blend mode, Glow100 at Screen blend mode, both at very low opacity and gradient masked with highest visibility at top
- Fractalius -- two B&W presets based on the old Sketch, both blurred and Multiply blend mode
- Alien Skin Snap Art -- Stylize Line Art (turquoise), two layers at Multiply blend mode, one blurred
- background and texture layers stamped and flipped horizontally, low opacity
- Photo Filter adjustment layer -- green, gradient masked with highest visibility at top
- olive green border, Luminosity blend mode
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