The Lookouts by bmac62
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No grunge per se, but I was able to use a few things I've learned in the grunge process to bring in a puffy cloud background where there was none, use a layer mask to pop the crows or starlings out and fiddle with opacity.
Thanks for looking...layers do have a lot to offer if you've not used them before.
Bill:)
It was my intent to do some blending of the cloud layer and the tree layer...for a different effect.
Comments (35)
Very well done
Wish I had time to fool around with the exotic stuff...nice result here..
Ohhh this is good Bill... its great to see you playing! My Osprey photos; the sky was BORING in those, so I added storm clouds and lightening, using the overlay thing :) fun huh? :P
Well I think you have done a great job Bill. I love crows as they always seem to be smarter than me!
very good work with almost conflicting light & textures, one of the joys of blending & layering. The clouds leave a quiet veil over the shot, giving normally clear leaves & branches a kind of soft through-a-screen feeling. And your popping the birds through the layers is impressive. Those are some of the subtler aspects of manipulation, and it can take thought & time. And by bringing the birds forth like that, you've played with normal perspective: Ie, drawing the mid-ground right to the fore, and leaving foreground—with the cloud layer—in a kind of abyss. Thereby you get perspective to play tricks on us! Some great prints, like Japanese prints of previous centuries, did this with drawing & painting, flattening the background to make it feel like design-art or abstract art. You got that feeling here. And i like the ripples of shadow in the lower right corner too. Hope you do this more---the more you do it, the more it'll speak to you...this is a very sensitive job. I'd have struggled with those birds, believe me...