This is an experimental shoot. I’ve been having a hate-hate relationship with my iPhone’s capacity to take photos, but this attempt seems to have worked. Maybe because I used CameraPlus on macro and took my time. The snake skins are twined around a white china goat on a restored chiffonier, both inherited from a special aunt. My resident python has shed the skins over a number of seasons: in the ceiling, retrieved for me by the white ant man; on the deck, still lying there embedded by weather; and near the gate leading from the back yard where it (I’ve met it, but have been hesitant to sex it, which involves probing its cloaca) has used the latticed wire to help it shed.
Once I have the photos, I spend a lot more than five minutes playing with them, firstly cropping, and using Structure in Snapseed. Then I discover the magic wand of Effects in LiPix and have great fun playing with it. Humour me!
The first lot are as they left LiPix: the second lot are double Structured in Snapseed: the third lot are double Structured and then Sharpened in Snapseed.
If you want to see a couple of pythons inhabiting their skin, you can follow these links
https://morselsandscraps3.wordpress.com/2015/09/13/the-view-from-saturday-lunch/
https://morselsandscraps3.wordpress.com/2016/02/12/weaving-the-lattice/
https://morselsandscraps3.wordpress.com/2016/02/20/visited-again/
Thank you again to Desley for this inspiring challenge. I don’t know whether I’m actually fulfilling technical requirements, but I’m certainly having fun. Everywhere I look I see things I want to spend five minutes with.
Wonderful images, and proof that I could do so much more with my own iPhone’s camera, if I bothered (as you have done) to pay serious attention to its potential. Bravo, you.
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Ummm. Thanks. But serious attention is overstating it a bit! It makes sense to use it because I carry it more (marginally) than I do my camera.
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Ummmm yourself! Serious, compared to me…
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That is very cool! I remember once when I was little, my brother and I found a pretty big snakeskin on our grandpa’s farm, but we never found the snake (probably a good thing!). My biggest problem with the iPhone’s camera is that I’ve found it has a hard time picking up red colors. I take a lot of photos of rocks and minerals and it’s a huge struggle to get correct colors. I often have to go in and edit the color balance!
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Fabulous! What a great post. And absolutely doing just the right thing. Those snake skins are amazing. And I LOVE the edits.
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The photo edits are superb! Love the last two and they would make gorgeous textile prints. As for the snake…
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Without the snake … no textile prints!!! I got very excited by the edits.
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Well I am happy for you to see the snake, just not very keen myself.
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Well, you’ve certainly had some fun, and that’s surely what this is all about! I rather like the editing effects, an interesting departure from the original snakeskin. And I do envy you having your Aunty Min….I went back to your original post from 5 years ago. She was certainly a powerful influence in your formative years
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You know me. Once I started playing around I couldn’t stop. My possession of an Aunty Min is envied by a number of people – her namesake (not the Min part), my eldest daughter, is shaping up to be another enviable aunt.
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Well done your daughter!
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I don’t know anyone else who could do what you’ve done for this challenge! Amazing photos and clever editing, it looks like complex crochet, You’ve excelled yourself Meg 🙂
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Because no-one else is a snakeskin-whisperer? Or because nobody else gets swallowed up in playing around with apps? I’ve been giving rockfaces similar treatment! I though you’d either like the crochet effect, or dislike the artificiality. I’m glad you liked.
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