Textured photographs
by Mark ~ November 10th, 2008. Filed under: Photoshop Tips, abstracts, art, artistry, creativity, leaves, nature photography.
I was searching through my Lightroom catalog today for a client who was looking for some leaf images and came across this one I had completely forgot about. This is an image where I was playing with some blending modes and a texture. The layered file date is from Dec 2007, and the base image was actually shot in 2006. I have always wanted to spend more time playing around with texture/image combinations, and this old experiment reminded me how interesting they can be. . I always thought these types of images had a certain dimensional feel to them.
If you aren’t familiar with how this is done, it starts with a base image, and on another layer a photograph or some rendering of a texture. . By using the blending modes in Photoshop between layers, some selective masking, and even more layering – you can come up with some very creative combinations.
Anyway, I didn’t want to leave this just sitting in a forgotten folder, and thought I would bring it to my gallery today.
November 11th, 2008 at
Oh, dear. Just as I was getting accustomed to spending less time in Photoshop.
The color choices are marvelous. Wonderfully rendered. Are you still doing any of this type of work? I enjoy all your images, but I hope we will see more of this work.
November 12th, 2008 at
Thanks Anita. It is one of those things that has interested me creatively, but I just haven’t dedicated the time to spend doing it with more images. Soon though I will introduce some more.
November 13th, 2008 at
Nice Mark. I like the tones as well as the texture. It is exciting when you make an image that seemingly defies the limitations of a two-dimensional medium.
November 13th, 2008 at
Hi Mark, this is absolutely beautiful – as all your work – the colour blue adds some ethereal aspect to this photo as well as the textures – that look like some spiderwebs – add even more delicacy.
November 14th, 2008 at
Excellent work. I am going to have to give this a try myself. Thanks for the inspiration.
November 14th, 2008 at
It ´s a lovely picture. I ´ve just bought myself a new camera.. I guess you could call it an early Christmas present. Anyway, I ´d like to be a bit more creative with my pictures, I ´m going to look into all the different ways I can make my pictures a lot more interesting!
Lesley
November 14th, 2008 at
Thank you very much.
Petra, I thought the same about the blue area.
November 15th, 2008 at
Mark….I really like the feeling of depth that has been enhanced via the layers. Love the colors as well.
December 2nd, 2008 at
Hi Mark – glad to have run into your site! Your photography is beautiful and I especially love the background of your blog – wow – what an effect!
As for texture photography I experimented a little but have a long, long way to go still. Your picture is beautiful here and I am glad you did not leave it hidden in a folder but shared it with the world