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The moral dilemmas one faces as a blogger! Once I’d been tempted to play around with effects and filters (using Lunapic) I knew I was lost. There was no way I was going to put the genie back in the bottle. And yet, once I transformed a tree shadow, I began to wonder. It was splendid without any fiddling and LucidGypsy’s quote from Satish Kumar confronted my desire to post mutations, especially tree-related. But, being a Scorpio, I rather fancied them. As with every moral dilemma I have ever faced, I remain ambivalent and go ahead and do it anyway. I’m hoping this excess will cure me of interfering with nature.
The tree before I interfered with it
Needlepoint and painted
Cartoon and newsprint
Equalise and painted
Implode and cartoon
Fire and water
Colour gradient and vignette border
Gradient (I think) and thermal
I’d love to hear rationales for this kind of transforming, and I’d also like to make a tally of favourite effects. So please vote!
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The original photo was very well seen and such a lovely pattern to play with. I do like the water image, all those sparkling ripples make it look almost like an underwater scene. Now I will have to explore lunapics…
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Watch out! It’s dangerous. However, I’d love to see what your artistry does with it.
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I had to go back just to check once I knew I was voting 🙂 But I’m seriously boring and not much given to ‘toying with nature’. She does a pretty fine job on her own and you found a good shot anyway. So, lecture over, I’m going with Needlepoint which enhances but not distorts. 🙂
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I think I agree, but I got caught up in playing (blame you! after all I’d have had no toy without Lunapic). I’m a bit partial to Gilly’s cropping too. Needlepoint – was that what you used on one of your headers? Or was that canvas?
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Pretty sure it was canvas, Meg, but like you and Gilly I often forget what I’ve done to achieve the effect. Not so much an effect as a fluke 🙂
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With this lot I saved the image twice, once captioned with filter or effect! How’s that?
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Oh my lord! Show off! You’ll be joining Photo 101 rehab soon and blazing a trail 🙂 🙂
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I just cropped out the excess path!
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A classic case of not seeing what you’re not looking for, and missing the simple things. I was looking for something else!
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Actually all I would do with it is this, https://lucidgypsy.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/megs.jpg?w=960
But I don’t know if what I’ve done will post here 🙂
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I’m hopeless at detailed looking. What did you do? (It looks as if it posted. Check it out.)
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Well it is an interesting pattern to start with so… I like the newsprint as it brings out so much more of the shadows and I like thermal because it is so obviously processed and transforms the pattern into something that looks like the Okavango Delta. Gradient is pretty and would make a lovely textile print for curtains or cushions. The only one I really don’t like is fire because it hides the tree shadow pattern.
And yes, I noticed the bench 😀
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Of course you noticed the bench! I didn’t notice it, so I wasn’t hiding it – it was hiding! thank you for spending time looking and preferring.
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I seem to have antennae wired for benches 😦
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Ha! I’m a Scorpio too, and excess seems to be part of the deal. I do like the original image best. On the other hand 😀 …I also like the vignette border and the thermal image. Oh the fun we have with our pix, Meg.
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Hello fellow Scorpio. We do indeed have fun when we should be, in my case, learning Polish … knitting … writing something a bit challenging. I too liked the thermal image. It’s a good effect for disguising photos of the twins!
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Well it’s all grist to the mill – the playing is usually heading somewhere, even if it’s not immediately obvious to self or others. Thermal twins. Now there’s (a slightly alarming?) thought. Who knows what they might get up to 🙂
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One of the first things my son-in-law said to me after they were born was “Meg, you realise your grandchildren will probably marry robots”!
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😀
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Me too! (Scorpio) 🙂
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Oh this is too funny, Jo 🙂
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Love your experiments – after all, we can learn from play!
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Thanks Sue. I was inspired in part by your four-ways series, but I’ve proceeded purely mechanically. You proceed artistically.
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Thank you very much!
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I like the original best. No contest.
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Your response doesn’t surprise me at all. I was leaning that way a bit too!
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Good to know you are a Scorpio – I have a Scorpio ascendant.
I looked at the quote you mentioned and can’t really see that you are dishonouring the tree by your creative experiments.
Gauguin once said ‘do not try to represent nature – rather stand in front of her and dream’. Using nature as a starting point for creative expression is a time honoured route taken by many artists and poets.
Of all your experiments I like the one with the orange path the best. It looks like the path is dissolving into another realm.
Keep experiment I say, 🙂
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Thank you for taking me seriously, and for the Gauguin quote, and thanks too for your preference, and the reason for it. It gives that one a dimension I hadn’t seen, and your preference fits with what I know of you.
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You’re welcome. I understand your issues will representing nature – I go through these dilemmas too. Gauguin’s quote is one of those ideas that truly inspires me.
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