Challenge Photos from Week 36

52-Week Photo Challenge Week 36, Selective Color

Photo by Ada Levins

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Ada says : 

After trying a variety of subjects, I headed to the produce department and found this chard leaf. I left in both the red and magenta to fill in the veins better. I brought down the exposure and increased the texture. I love this lesson and look forward to using it again.

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Week 36 - Wonderland 

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Week 36, Wonderland 

Photo by Jo Ann Banks

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Jo Ann says:

I recently watched a tutorial with a "heads in the clouds" surreal composite and knew then I wanted to try this technique. My lovely model is my DIL Heather. How lucky am I to have two Heathers in my family? I took the photo of Heather in front of the siding on the house thinking it would be easy enough to extract her from the background. Then I placed her on the sky photo that I took from my front yard last night. I had to take out some distractions like trees and a house. In PS I added a cloud brush to the center. Then I extracted the hat and put it on its own layer and masked out Heather's face to reveal the clouds below. I moved the hat just over top. I used a bird brush that I made from a bird photo I took last year and duplicated and flipped the birds to make more of them.

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Week 36 - Repetition

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Week 36, Repetition

Photo by Maureen O’Neill

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Construction site billboards.

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Week 36, Repetition

Photo by Ricky Tims

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Ricky says:

Since repetition creates harmony and visual rhythm, I decided to go literally with the musical theme and shoot this 120 year old pump organ keyboard Edited in Prisma app with Wild.

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Week 36, Wonderland 

Photo by Ricky Tims
from the 2021 Critique Group

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Ricky says:

I love the little forest next to my house (affectionally named Mirkwood, a nod to The Hobbit), and I always think that it is filled with magic. I was fortunate to have Brian Lyon and Cory Annis here for the holiday weekend. We stewed on various ideas and I thought about creating a wizard. I dug into my fabric stash and found the yardage left over from making the Lizzy Albright cape. Don't be deceived, there is no back to the robe you see here, it's just draped over. My model is my neighbor, Steve, whose wife rolled with laughter when she saw the not-yet-edited version of her hubby. This image is a composite of four images and only one of them was taken at dusk (the trees and lights in the back), the others were taken in daylight. I added the photos of poppies from a couple weeks ago. The staff here is not really a staff, it's a dead oak that I painted red earlier this summer as a meditation stick in the forest. The main orb is all "created". The mid-sized lights are from my solar lights in the trees, and the tiny lights are also created. It was fun, and this red wizard is still currently nameless, but he might just show up as a chapter in the Lizzy Albright sequel - we shall see.

Smart Phone Photo Challenge - Week 35 

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Week 35 : Song Title

Photo by Marleen Hoffman

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Marleen says:

What a week. Been super busy with everything except photoing. Guess time flies while you busy doing stuff. Took some photos on my iPhone today and dedicated the time to play. Ended up using the PIP camera app. Minor adjustments and edits in photos and ready to submit for this weeks homework. Hope you found some time to play & recharge your batteries. Did you guess it? Time in a Bottle!

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Week 35 - Movie Title

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Week 35, Movie Title

Photo by Michael Novak

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Michael says:

Taken about 30 minutes before dawn--fyi. That info has nothing to do with the movie title. Basic Lr adjustments.

Did you guess it?

On the Waterfront

52-Week Photo Challenge Class: Week 35, White on White

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Week 35, White on White

Photo by Olivia Edwards

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Olivia says:

Sunday was laundry day so I was consumed with taking pictures of piles of sheets and other things. Later, when I opened the dryer door, I was mesmerized. I pulled up a chair and took lots of photos of the dry sheets tumbled together in the dryer. Using LR I got rid of the dryer light's yellow effect and whitened some of the shadows. I felt as if the sheets were swirling under water. Loved finding them!

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Week 35, Movie Title

Photo by Ricky Tims
from the 2021 Critique Group

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Ricky  says:

This will be easy peasy, but if you knew how much I'm hoping to just get a single reasonable ripe one - this was sacrificed for the cause.

Did you guess it? Fried Green Tomatoes.

Many years ago while teaching in the UK I was smitten by this quilt which had won Best of Show. I loved the images representing the ancient Desert Southwest and was impressed with the artist ability to nail these themes. Liz Heywood had researched the Anasazi (the ancient ones), and assemble this wonderful quilt. I’ve had this quilt hanging either in my office or my home ever since I purchased it. At the time, I was living in St. Louis, far from desert southwest vibes. Now, that region is my home.

You must take time to look at the detail images and see the machine stitching, the hand seed stitching...hidden, tiny prairie points, and so many other techniques. Even after all these years I still find things I never noticed before.

Challenge Photos from Week 34

52-Week Photo Challenge Class: Week 34, Power Of One

Photo by Lynn Watkins

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One basketball in the pool

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Week 34 - The Eyes Have It

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Week 34, The Eyes Have It

Photo by Marion Seasholtz

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Marion says:

Ruby our cat - I played around with her eye color, but decided to go with the actual color. Filter from BeCasso

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Week 34 - Simple Pleasures

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Week 34, Simple Pleasures

Photo by Deb Story

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Deb says:

My happy place this week when Western New York temperatures approached 90 degrees! BeCassp filter and Snapseed edits.

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Week 34, The Eyes Have It

Photo by Ricky Tims

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Ricky says:

This is my co-host, Alex Anderson. It's a triple exposure layered in Photoshop with each layer a different size and the Lighten blending mode creating the effect. I made adjustments to the original layer before duplicating. I wanted the impact of the eye to dominate, but the rest to feel a bit surreal or dream-like.

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Week 34, Simple Pleasures

Photo by Ricky Tims
from the 2021 Critique Group

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Ricky  says:

Simple pleasures, but also amazing technology. This is Hugo, in Portugal. The simple pleasure is putting your feet up and just enjoying a moment. But also, it's a pleasure, and an amzement to use visual technology to communicate when borders are closed and we cannot visit face to face. I asked to see "his view" and this was it. It's a screen capture of the moment and I cloned out my little thumbnail window showing myself. So essentioally, I took my photo in Portugal this week (smile).