The beautiful colours of a peacock.
Our red eyed tree frog climbing his way to the top!
This was taken late 06 on a south bound snow mission in new zealand, it was blowing 90+km wind, my friend would not get out of the car, so i had to put my tripod hard up agaisnt me and hang on!!!!.....................hard work pays off eh??!!....
The wonderful thing about this photo is that it’s a corner that is no longer there. I spotted this “eye” while walking along in Soho, NYC back in early 2005 and now there is a new Andre Balaz condominium building. So…I’m glad I took the shot now. After all…I’m sure YOU have an eye on someone…so it may give you a “lift” by just looking at it, right? ;)
Gorgeous isn’t he? This fellow was watching us from the top of a tree.
I Love this work,I had so much fun creating this art work , we all have been a FOOL or know some one who is a FOOL in our life time. / —-—-—-—-—-—-—-— / Rhana Griffin / wrote a great Poem also called the FOOL , I love it and goes very well with this art work . / , Thank you Rhana , please do visit her site to see more of her work. / THE FOOL In the corner sits a fool, / her head, once held so high / now hangs between her knees / as hot tears of shame / fall silently to / drip onto her feet. In the corner sits a fool / her golden locks, / once tossed in confidence / now fall victim / to the rough hacking of the / shears held in her hands. In the corner sits a fool / the flowers of praise / once heaped upon her / now lie dead, turning to dust / borne away on the winds / of her own self disgust. In the corner sits a fool / her fine raiment / once worn so proudly / now ripped to shreds / by the talons of the many / whose den she accidently stumbled upon. In the corner sits a girl / broken but… / never beaten, / who belatedly realises / she has been played for a / fool Her tears now spent, / she raises her head defiantly, / fixes a baleful stare / upon the cause of her suffering / and whispers… / never again
Drawn 2008. Age 21. Pencil only – 2H,HB,3B. Drawn on smooth bristol board. This is my first horse portrait. It was a commissioned drawing and the original belongs to a gentleman called. Mr. J. Eagles.
I’m all about the easiest way to get from A to B and the process in this tutorial of making the eyes sparkle and shine in a portrait, is …
I’m all about the easiest way to get from A to B and the process in this tutorial of making the eyes sparkle and shine in a portrait, is definately easy. You could use this on animals as well if you wanted. You can download the image below to practise on if you like, just click through for the larger image. Open the image in Photoshop, and click on the little ying yang symbol at the bottom of the layers palette to create a curves adjustment layer. Do not adjust any setting, just click OK, then change the layer blend mode to Screen. Click on the mask, and then press Ctrl + i on your keyboard to invert. Or you can go to Image>Adjustments>Invert. Double click on the writing (Curves 1) to change the name of this layer to Iris. Click on the ying yang symbol again and click on curves, don’t change any settings just click OK. Change the blend mode of this layer to Multiply, click on the mask and hit Ctrl + i on the keyboard to invert the mask. Rename this layer Pupil. You should end up with something similar to the image below. Making sure that the foreground colour is white, that you are working on the ‘pupil’ layer mask, go and grab the pencil tool making sure that you are using a hard edge. You can simply press B on the keyboard to access the brush tool and to further scroll through to select the pencil tool use Shift + B on the keyboard. You’ll probably have to zoom in on this image to about 200%. Place the pencil over the pupil and use the right bracket key on the keyboard to increase (or the left bracket to decrease) the size of the pencil till if is covering the pupil and then click once. Go and do the same thing on the other eye :) Still using the pencil and adjusting the size accordingly, go over the outside band of the iris – the dark bit – I don’t know what they are called :) Look at the image below for an idea of what I am doing. At the moment this will look really dark, but we haven’t finished with it yet. Still on the Pupil Mask go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur and perhaps use a radius of 1 on this image ….. it will be different on a larger image of course. Then take the opacity of the layer down to whatever suits you. I used about 25% which I can go back and change at any time because I have used an adjustment layer. Lets work on the Iris Mask now. With your f/ground set to white and a soft edged brush (adjust with the bracket keys to suit) and making sure that you are working on the mask by clicking on it – we’re going to look at the specular highlights first. This image has quite a few and I’ve chosen to leave the largest ones alone, just click once on some of the smaller ones. This is going to look pretty weird when you first do it :-) Just remember that you are working on a mask and by pressing X on the keyboard you can paint out any of the work you want to change – just remember to press X to switch back to white :) Still working on the layer mask, go to the top option bar and reduce the opacity of the brush to 50%. Now zoom in and paint over the Iris, because of the layer stack it won’t make any difference if you paint over the darker adjustments you just did. I took the opacity of the layer down to 50%. You could go ahead now and sharpen the eyes with your favourite method, or you could continue to adjust and enhance the eyes. I went ahead and added a bit of depth to the eyelashes. There is a tutorial on it HERE Once I was happy with the eyelashes I merged the layers … then I decided he might look nice with different coloured eyes :) I used a Selective Colour adjustment layer to turn his eyes green and finally flattened the image, duplicated the b/ground, set the blend mode to overlay used Filter>Other>High Pass to do some sharpening, and took the opacity of the layer down to 50%. And here is the end result – have fun :) EDIT – Here is a comparison image. 1st is the original – 2nd the enhanced – 3rd the colour change.
Bonnie is hiding in some garland!! : )
Hand with “third eye” holding flower. Photo based illustration.
Seated yoga, in extra dimensions.
The main background is the plaster texture inverted. The splatter texture is overlayed on the viewers right. The 02 FAC texture was uploaded into the texturizer and applied to the face with the effect erased from the eyes and cheeks so it is most evident on the lips, nose and forehead. The 01 FAC texture was darken-layered around the edges of the image after I colored it magenta using the hue/saturation slider. The remaining elements are parts of my photos, model is my wife Candace who is my greatest inspiration.
Myself. / Last day of 2008. Taken with the Point and Shoot, Canon Powershot Experimenting with bokeh textures
This young lady has just been spotted by an Aquascutim Talent Scout and I was asked to take some shots to send to London…just thought I would share this with you…. The Freckes do it for me.
This is Isaac, he was rescued from the local pound here in Leitchfield Ky. We rescued him at 14 weeks. Isaac is an Australian Shepherd. He is partially deaf and almost blind. He is the victim of very bad breeding , which is the reason for so many problems. At first I thought he was a mix but when I showed him to a breeder here she told me that he was pure, but the victim of a lousy breeder. I was told he is what they call a “Lethal White” which is the result of breeding a merle to a merle that can produce some beautiful pups but around 25% of pups will have problems as Isaac does but many times much worse. They will destroy those pups at birth, therefore the name! He was left on a chain at 9 weeks of age when his previous owners just moved away and left him there. Their next door neighbor didn’t help him or call anyone for 4 days. Poor little guy was skin and bones with no food or water left for him. The day he picked me out, was the first time I had ever been to our local shelter, went there looking for a female adult large breed such as a Doberman, because I had just lost my best girl of 19 years. I felt him looking at me even before I saw him, fell in love with him, went home told my husband about him, he made it clear to me that I must have lost my mind, because Isaac was everything that I swore I would never own. He was male, plus coat, medium size, puppy, well that went well. Was there early the next morning to take him home, I found out that day was to be his last day there, lucky lucky us! He is the most wonderful little guy we could ever hope for. He thinks we are pretty cool too!
This is my beautiful friend Nathalie, in a Tara-style portrait….all photos and textures used my own, with the exception of the original photo of Nat. :) The brightly coloured background image is a pastel drawing my girls and I did together a few weeks ago. All images combined using Photoshop Elements 2.0. Canon Powershot A480 point and shoot for butterfly and textures. Proudly New Zealand-made. :) Uploaded July 27, 2009. SOLD – Four greeting cards of this image, July 2009. Featured in The Patchwork July 27, 2009. / Featured in All The Colours Of The Rainbow July 27, 2009. / Featured in #1 Artists of RedBubble July 27, 2009. / Featured in Eye Macros July 29, 2009. / Featured in Accentuate the Eyes Aug 4, 2009. / Featured in The Scavenger Hunt Aug 16, 2009. / Featured in The Divine Feminine Aug 25, 2009.
sales so far – 1 sale :) / / A recent drawing, coloured in Photoshop / This little miss is sipping on a cup of tea, enjoying her brand new hairdo!! Her pet bird sits atop singing sweet tunes…and other birds have come to rest upon her pinky finger and on her shoulder A sweet card or print for your girlfriends’ birthdays and special occasions.
Mikey taking a second look at a lens that now moves LOL / New Camera….he notices everything.
I previously had this photograph on Redbubble. I removed in August. I’m reintroducing with some layered enhancements of the original. The photo was taken of a window display while touring the city, New York City, that is. / / / Featured in Buyer’s Club 10-12-09 / Featured in Eye Macros 10-14-09 / Featured in The World As We See It 10-17-09 / 318 views 11-9-09
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