Spinning

[Judy Howle]

Spinning moth. I think it's a hummingbird moth. 3 textures applied, all blue tones and one with a "star field" look.

[Indranil Sircar]

Very much an OOTB composition, Judy. I like the spinning effect and the bands of colors which provides an illusion of depth here. Nicely processed.

[denise ippolito]

Judy, I don't usually do this but I am going to ditto Indranil he said exactly what I thought.. I also like the star field look.:)

[kostas nianiopoulos]

verry cool , i like the mood it has , good one Judy !

[Judy Howle]

Thanks everyone! I made several photos of the spinning moth but this was my favorite. I might do another one later.

[Christopher Miller]

Very neat image, Judy! Love the rippling effect and the star field texture. What exactly was the moth doing?

[Kerry Perkins]

Like it a lot Judy! So many interesting things going on. Love the rays of color crossing the rings of the ripples, definitely a cosmic look and feel. How did the moth fare?

[Judy Howle]

Thanks Christopher. The moth was trying to fly to get out of the water, poor thing. It was too far out in the lake for me to reach it so I left it there spinning around from the wing action.

[Judy Howle]

Thanks Kerry! It was still there when I left. Too far out in the lake for me to rescue it.

[Judy Howle]

I decided to try something different and to remove the vignette I had on the OP, so here is my re-do with a frame added. I used the same star field look texture and I found another nice blue texture and spherized it and reduced opacity 50% or so as it was getting too dark blue. It is pretty dark but looks much better on black. I also merged visible and ran pixel bender on it to make the ripples more interesting and lowered opacity to 50%.

How do you like the frame? I think it kind of stops the ripples from spreading out of the image.