THEME - A Greenie Looking for Dave

[Cheryl Slechta]

I'm trying to clear up some space on my computer and found a greenie for the theme. I used DAP Benson on it at a reduced opacity.
Thanks for looking

[Dennis Bishop]

Very nice verticals and diagonals, colors, too. And I really like the pose. Very well done all the way around.

[Diane Miller]

I like the picture and the effect -- they go very well together.

[Nancy Bell]

I really like the texture with the DAP Benson effect. And great compositional diagonals with the heron and the perch. Herons can remain motionless for long times and I like the subtle tension between the statue-like look to the heron amid the motion created by the swirls and colors in the bkgd.

[Diane Miller]

Cheryl, are you using Auto Painter on an iPad or the like? I have it on my iPhone but never tried it on a picture from the big cameras. Just checked on it and saw that there is a version (apparently simplified) from the Mac app store that will run on the "real" computer. Just got it and will try it if I dig out before happy hour, which I probably won't.

[Jackie Schuknecht]

Really nice Cheryl!

[Cheryl Slechta]

Hi, Diane, sorry I just saw this - I have DAP on my desktop - I had no idea they had an app. I wonder if it's the same - Dynamic Auto Painter. I don't use it often but I always dust it off for Dave Phillips week

Cheryl, are you using Auto Painter on an iPad or the like? I have it on my iPhone but never tried it on a picture from the big cameras. Just checked on it and saw that there is a version (apparently simplified) from the Mac app store that will run on the "real" computer. Just got it and will try it if I dig out before happy hour, which I probably won't.

[LinzRiverBalmer]

Honestly not sure how to comment or critique for this theme week... Everything is so unique it's up to personal interpretation.


this is lovely, like it all, wish there were a bit more of the blues around the beak.

[Diane Miller]

Cheryl,

From what I read quickly on their web site, I think for the PC it's a regular program, but Mac is, by their own bragging, "different." (And they're proud of it, although they seem to have toned down the bragging over the years.) Translation: a lot of developers won't touch recoding their programs for the Mac OS. So from the website the Mac version looks like a simplified one. I can't find many controls that let you change things. I'll pull out the iPhone and compare them, but from what I remember (haven't used i for a while) it's about the same.

I like the look you got using it as a layer with reduced opacity. It gets a little heavy-handed for my tastes, left to it's own.

But thanks for reminding me of it! Worthy of more exploration.

[Randall Farhy]

Another beauty this one is. There are a good number of textures and lines at work here and it is a well suited subject for the effect. The altered BG is a compliment to the overall scene though i'd be tempted to crop the top just a little bit more.

[Cheryl Slechta]

Thanks, everyone for your comments. I really have only scratched the surface of the features of DAP because I don't use it that often. If you uncheck the box that clears the image when it's finished you can add another artist or effect which I will do sometimes - let one run a little bit and then switch to another. It's also nice to run it and use it just for the background of an image at a reduced opacity. Dave was a master at it.

[Anita Bower]

I like everything about this image except for the light-toned vertical through the middle. It was the first thing I noticed.

The subtle colors are beautiful and work well with the processing. Nice position of the bird. The vegetation at the bottom grounds the image.