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Texture Tuesday "Heavy Edit"

Tuesday, June 14, 2011 · Posted in Kim Klassen, Las Vegas, Photography, Texture

This is my entry for this week's edition of Texture Tuesday over at Kim Klassen's Cafe.

Not everyone will like the edit I did on this photo as it is very heavily edited. I have been playing around with trying to create digital art and I happened to create this effect by accident. This photo was taken in the conservatory of the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas.

Using Photoshop Elements 9 I first did a levels adjustment and then I ran Nero Nelly's Vespa Action on the photo. I then added Kim's newest texture Mayzee to the photo. I originally set it on the soft light blending mode and was going to adjust the opacity but I had forgotten to click on opacity so it started moving between the blending modes and when it hit the difference blending mode I thought to myself "hey, I like that". I think it has a special effects feel to it so I adjusted the opacity slightly to 97% and left it there. What do you think, is it cool or is it a little too much?

For reference here is the original photo so you can see how different they are.

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Soft Beauty

I took these shots yesterday at the conservatory inside the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas. We had been in Las Vegas for four days and I was incredibly lazy and didn't take my camera with me at all during the first three days. The last day we had a couple hours to kill so I took some shots of the flowers here because they were so beautiful and because I love taking flower shots and also because I have a new 35mm macro lens I wanted to try out. I thought these flowers were delphinium until I googled delphinium this morning and these flowers look nothing like the ones that came up, so if anyone knows what these are and wants to let me know I would appreciate it.

These shots were taken using my usual 14-45mm lens or the new macro lens. I was told I would need to shoot the macro with a tripod but since that wasn't an option here I just shot anyway and I am quite happy with the results.