And now, for something completely different... inspired by an article in a Photoshop magazine I was flipping through at Chapters today... which gave me an excuse to go back and play around with an old image of Lisa.

Let me know whatcha think.


(Click the image for a larger view)






Kinda... out there, eh? lol

I'm a day later than I meant to be on this, I've just had a busy few days.

But, I do have a photo to share. I took this photo from our back balcony a few days ago.

Actually, the photo is the result of 3 individual photos taken in rapid succession, one at a set exposure, one a stop under-exposed, and one a stop over-exposed.

I then went to town on some selective enhancements in Photoshop...

I stacked the 3 images in seperate layers and selectively masked out certain parts of each layer.

I did some selective curves adjustments, some selective sharpening and softening, some selective Shadow/Highlight adjustments.

A touch of Nik Sunshine filter was added, and a bit of "Painting with Light" , and the result is as you see here. The final image is made up of 13 layers in Photoshop >_< )

As always, click the pic to see a larger view, and comment/critiques are welcome.

My Photo of the Week entry this week is a response to Chica's Photo Projectz challenge... to put together a collection of my photos representing all the letters of the alphabet.

I decided to use all existing photos I have on my hard drive / backups ... if only to give me a good excuse to look back through older photos.

I'm not sure I chose the best method to create a slideshow (I used Photo Story 3) ... but it worked anyways. It only outputs in wmv format (Windows Media) ... so if you can't view that file type let me know and I'll try to convert the file somehow.

Anyhoo... without further ado... here it is... save this file and play away (right click the link, save as...

http://www.othersi.com/storage/alpha...tslide.wmv



*** EDIT ***

I uploaded the video to Youtube... hopefully those who can't watch the link above, can see this video. The quality of it is horrible, but better than nothing...

After my episode last Friday, Lisa and I headed out camping for the weekend, and we both enjoyed a very relaxing couple of days sitting around the campfire, hiking around the scenic trails, and just recharging.

I didn't take a ton of photo's but did have my camera along and got a few keepers.

I'd actually started with the intent of carrying out Chica's challenge of 'documenting' my day, taking a photo of whatever I was doing every hour or so... but after the first 3 or 4 pictures, the regimented schedule just wasn't meshing with the relaxed weekend, so I gave up. (sorry Chica! :p )

Anyways, I haven't done anything 'special' with these photo, they are just a couple from the weekend that I thought captured the location well.

The first one is a capture of an amazing view.

The second one, I just liked the lighting of it.

Another Sunday has snuck up on us, and while I've got a few minutes I wanted to post my 2nd PotW entry.

Last weekend was the annual May Days parade and festivities, and Lisa and I joined a couple friends to watch the Rutland parade.

It was a pretty good parade this year, as it's also Rutland's 100th birthday, so everything was "bigger and better" ... the parade lasted a good 1 hour and 10 minutes or so.

Now... it's still a "small town-ish" parade, so there was nothing extravagant, but there were quite a few interesting floats and groups of people wandering by.

And, of course, I had my camera.

This image was my favorite of the bunch. I'm not 100% pleased with it.. mainly because of the angle from which I took the photo, I ended up with a couple spectator heads at the bottom of the frame that I'd rather not have there.

But despite that, I like the photo. I like the look of the trio... I like the candid appearance of it ... I especially like the facial expression of the waving boy.

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And today is a bit of a twofer day ("two for one" day).

While I was editing the photo, I started playing around with various filters and masking effects, etc... and stumbled across a look that I thought was interesting. So I ran with it, tweaked it, played around some more, and ended up with the following:

*CLICK IMAGE TO ENLARGE*





Please leave your comments and let me know what you think (good and bad).


And, on the topic of me fiddling around with a photo and stumbling across a heavily-filtered look that I ended up enjoying... I'd like to try putting this idea out there as a challenge to other photo/photo-editing buffs out there.

Take a photo you like... and play around with it in your favorite editing program to come up with a heavily filtered look that you feel adds to the image and leaves you with an entirely different (when compared to the original), but enjoyable, result.

If you try this out, please post a link to the result (the original, and the edit) in a comment here so I can check out your work. :)

Have fun and thanks for passing through!