Was intrigued by "assignment color" and thought of the great color of an expensive Bordeaux such as Latour or Lafite Rothchild and combination color of a great Montrachet, such as Chateau d' Yquem. Yumms, the wines out of my reach, however, the colors I could afford. So, I start off in CS4 with File>New and used size 1024 x 800 px with white BG. Then I changed BG & FG to my interpertation of the 2 wines, then Filter>Render>Clouds, then fiddled with opacity and blur. Has a photo of some Pitisporam, so I sized it about 20 px smaller than original, using Move & holding down shift to put it exactly in center of rendered clouds, then I fiddled with eraser at very low opacity and blended into original, looked OK, but not what I wanted so I resized photo of Night Blooming Cereus flower I had taken yesterday morning and moved it onto original with wine border of about 15 px.fiddled with opacity, blur etc until I liked the look of it. Then I resized photo of 2 Hummingbirds playing, a Broadbill & a Black-chinned taken at Madera Kubo the day before, this I moved into center of original. First I used eraser at different opacities to outline Hummingbirds. Where I used QM in the past to selectively sharpen head, eyes etc I used QM to blur this time. To get results I thought I was thinking about I used Clone, curves and blur to fiddle while Rome burned,
When I was finished I didn't like border, so I cropped it out.
Comments welcome and always appreciated.
Uncle Gus aka Mad Artist
All photos taken with Olympus E-520 IS, Zuiko 70-300 ED and TTL Flash
nice work and vision....one case where a centrally placed element in the comp works well.
By far prefer #1 where the hummers are darker and appear more part of the image.
For my taste, #2 is a bit ghostly.
very nice overall.
Last edited by Dave Phillips; 05-31-2009 at 09:18 AM.
Hummingbird Abstract
