Posted 10 years ago
VioletOrange
(150 items)
I know - better keep my day job. I'm in one of those strange moods and this is the result. All photos amateurishly "enhanced".
Photo 1: Still Life of old $10 soda bottle, a $15 Italian glass vase, the previously posted Anton Lang bottle vase, a dried "snowball" and that great snack combination - cherries and garlic.
Photo 2: Still Life of an old coffee grinder, an opium bottle and an old beer bottle from a now defunct Wheeling, WV brewery.
Photo 3: Still Life of ice fishing lures and what you will be eating if you think I can catch supper.
Photo 4: The place we visit most often in town - no, not the antique shop - our local vet - with 20 cats and 4 dogs we are their best customers.
20 cats!! Inky, I think I found a source for targets!
Love the third photo best and the I like the thought of it as... settled back after enjoying the fruits of your catch!...and as for the fourth the your local vet!...I'm right there with you but! baring the door and save them all from blunderbus!...not that I really!!! think he would hurt a...thing!!!...:-)..I have a garden full of different hydrangeas, love garlic and cherries so love the first one too!...all are good!..:-)
inky,
I'm not worried about blunderbuss2, meet CHARLIE, our feral alpha male:
http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g394/violetorange/charlie_zpsbb3e389a.jpg
Actually, we have enough stray cats here. Sadly, the police frown on discharging guns around tourists. We really do have a stray problem. Ones the Animal Shelter can't get the Chinese restaurants catch.
OK, Violet Oranje, I'll turn control back to you it you are nice about it. My question is, what did you manipulate in the pics. Did you pull-up diff. pics & assemble them as one pic? Give a hint.
blunderbuss2,
There is a stray cat problem most everywhere. Those we can't take in for various reasons, diseases that are contagious and incurable, e.g. Charlie has FEIV and we just lost Meeky to FEIP, we feed and medically care for . . . and neuter.
I'm not very skilled at digital photography. All of these photos started as just regular photos and then I used Paint Shop Pro to manipulate them. Nothing requiring much skill. Most were simply "posterized" and/or "eroded" - to various degrees. Also I sometimes use "saturate" and "sharpen".
With the third photo I also used a tool that allows you to trace over one portion of a photo and copy what is being traced to another place on the photo, e.g. I copied the top red ice fishing lure to the bottom by the sardine can.
In the first photo I added darker purple to the prunts on the Italian vase and with the garlic that was too white for my taste - I outlined/isolated the cloves and then made them darker without changing the rest of the photo.
I need to try some of that. Uh, I don't mean neutering cats. Have it but never tried it. Have to read-up on it.
Here are the two original photos:
http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g394/violetorange/20131225_10_zpsc5a70955.jpg
http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g394/violetorange/StillLife-Fish_zpsb1ebe5b5.jpg
Mostly subtle changes but now we know what you changed.
Here is a side-by-side of the vet photo, before and after:
http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g394/violetorange/Vetmerged_zpsf9307b77.jpg
Subtle but gives more depth.
Lol!...love him ...devil cat..he would keep me away!...:-)
inky,
Charlie now has an insulated "igloo" and (for the winter) a heater and a heated water bowl. He comes inside for his meals, sits in one of my art deco leather chairs and lets my wife Mary Ann carry him around.
Agh-ha!...lol!...so that's how you tamed him..a spoilt, softy devil cat ...:-))).... or maybe you!! are all under his spell..:-)