The Whole Nine Yards
This image of a Water Lily was taken at Homosassa Butterfly House, which is near our home. For some unknown reason, I thought of throwing the “whole nine yards” at it and see what would happen. Of course that would limit it to being an abstract, but I’ve done those before! So hope you enjoy!
Modification in PS4 and Topaz included; Radial Blur;Selective Color; Poster Edge; Accent Edges; Pinhole Camera; In-focus, Vibrance& Saturation, and a few other now forgotten tweaks.
Mark, I like this one. The colors and the slight zoom really do make this special.
Nice job with the whole nine yards! You must have had fun with it. I agree with Denise about the colors and the radial blur, also the simplified shapes. I love that inner frame--how did you do it? I wonder is the lily could be made to stand out more?
Thanks Denise and Anita for viewing and comments. Appreciate it.
Anita, the inner matte is the extension of the canvas and letting the radial blur drift outside the image area. I put my normal Blk and Wht edge on the image, before doing the radial blur, which gave the broken edge effect. I always extend the canvas to help center the radial point in the image. Then I cropped it, prior to the final framing, to fit the desired effect. Some of the effect of the inner matte is due to the processes of the following steps, as the radial blur was one of the first steps of the image.
It was one of the whole nine yard effects of this image!
Thank you for explaining your process for the inner frame/mat. I very much like the result!Originally Posted by Mark Fuge
Anita, the inner matte is the extension of the canvas and letting the radial blur drift outside the image area. I put my normal Blk and Wht edge on the image, before doing the radial blur, which gave the broken edge effect. I always extend the canvas to help center the radial point in the image. Then I cropped it, prior to the final framing, to fit the desired effect. Some of the effect of the inner matte is due to the processes of the following steps, as the radial blur was one of the first steps of the image.
It was one of the whole nine yard effects of this image!
I like the results you got from this too, Mark. Makes for a very interesting and unique abstract composition.
Beautiful composition, Mark. It has a poster look to it. Love the zoom effect.
Thank you Brendan and Indranil for viewing and comments. Appreciate it.
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