Experiments

These are the prints that I've created while sitting at the computer late at night guided by my intuition. Most of these were originally one of my photographs that has been distorted and changed by the magic of PhotoShop. Click on thumbnail of image to see full sized view.

"Heat"

This one was fun using a photo of a sun-halo, then converting the picture using the "Difference Clouds" filter. Add "Lens Flare" in the upper left corner and some lighting and darkening of the trees using "Curves" and there you have it...an alien landscape!

These were photographs of an ocean sunrise and clouds until I found the book "Creative PhotoShop Lighting Techniques" by Barry Huggins.

This is a snakeskin that I scanned and played with using PhotoShop filters.

"Stained Glass Web"

What is it? A spider's web that Homer captured on film and I totally enjoyed changing around with PhotoShop filters.

Original photo.

All three of these pictures came from a blending of two of Homer's photographs of Maple seed pods. I threw in a butterfly just to see what would happen.

Original.

"Shadow Frenzy"

This is a surreal shadowscape using one photo of a fence at Hunting Island State Park. I copied the photo onto a new blank page, reversed it and pasted it back on the original. Then, using PhotoShop's blending tool under Layer Styles, I just blended the two together, switched the "Mode" to black and white and improved the contrast.

Two separate photos...

"Sea Blend"

...blended together, mode changed to black and white and more contrast. I also zoomed in on the sand dollar and cropped it.

One of Homer's great photos of a crab...

"Meltdown"

...turned into, well, SOMEthing!

"Lava Wave"

This is a small section of a watercolor painting that I scanned and "twirled" with PhotoShop filters.

"Birth"

This was a lot of fun to create. Using a black background, I just added "lens flare" in the PhotoShop filters, soft "paintbrush" in white and "watercolor" filter.

"Flow"

This was an actual watercolor painting that I did, scanned and highlighted the colors using the "Hue-Saturation" tool in PhotoShop.

Using "Flow" once again, I went totally berserk. I would explain which filters I used to get this image, but I've totally forgotten what they were!

"Sea Elements"

This was one my first experiments with layers in PhotoShop. I scanned a seashell (be careful you don't scratch the scanner) and added seagulls from another photo.

"Fire"

This one is a bit strange. Taking an original photograph of a camp fire, and adding it in shapes to another page, then using the "dry brush" filter in PhotoShop, it came out kind of Southwestern looking.

"The Road"

I've always liked this one. This was an original photograph of a country road near Columbia, South Carolina. added some darker clouds using PhotoShop paintbrush, highlighted the green and then used the "dry brush" filter. This particular filter is great for bringing out the textures in natural settings.

"Planetary Cliffs"

This was an actual tunnel on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Using the "Distort" Filter and "Polar Coordinates," the picture started to resemble some planetary cliff.