Hello after a long hiatus. I’m here to share some photos I took at low tide in Coronado California. The seagulls were scattered here and there on different positions on the rocks. Some were in the air as well, but they weren’t flocking around a food source, it was more of an individual hunting and resting situation. Anemones and some shell fish occupied the pools, and people and dogs enjoyed the sunset.
I think I finally figured out how to work with water as a colored texture. I like the idea of textures, but I wanted the water color. The key was to select just the subject from the photo you want to paste onto the texture. For the pinecone I did this with freehand select using my digital pad and pen. For the bush I used select by color, copy, paste, as many times as I could stand. I was okay with a little bit of an abstract bush. It’s not all filled in, but that allows more water to come through.
The pine cone was very small! I put it on a post to photograph it. I should have changed off my telephoto lens, but I managed to clean up the slight blur on the cone afterwards by using sharpen. The bush is from the East side of the Sierra, growing at around 5,500 feet above sea level. (Lake Tahoe is 6,000.)
The first photo has GIMP Colors->Auto->White Balance and Auto->Color Enhance applied. The second picture is the actual exposure. Using a point and click, fully auto.
How nice not to have to get serious.
No need to schedule a meeting.
No wondering when,
of four hundred and sixty
To Dos
one will fall through a crack.
And show up on my review.
No more having to be reasonable
or confine my passions to the acceptable.
No getting narrowly defined.
Though you made it worthwhile
for you (all y’all) accepted my narrowly channeled passion
and let me experience
work with
love.
Now I slipped through a crack
and I am free from work.
Copyright © 2013 Nia Simone. All rights reserved.
Enjoy good Mexican food and a great view across the street from Commons Beach in Tahoe City.
The feature photo has no photo enhancement.
This is the same photo with Corel Painter Essentials Auto Painting->Detailed Watercolor applied. Beautiful but why…
so faded? How to enrich it in Corel Painter Essentials, don’t know, so… (good ‘ol) GIMP, Colors->Auto->White Balance followed by Colors->Auto->Color Enhance. Satisfaction.
This next one has Photoshop Essentials Enhance->Auto Smart Fix applied because the poppy was too out of focus and this tool improved it enough to make the photo work. Intention was poppy in focus, grass blurry but opposite achieved. (Working with LCD display in bright sunlight without knowing the camera that well, and in a hurry.) Nonetheless, this composition makes the photographer happy.
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Nicci Carrera 