3/6/09
(*This should be a funny story for you) This quickly become one of my favorite POD captures I've taken in recent months and certainly #1 for 2009 so far and all because I had to visit the little boys room ! LOL I was working on some images downstairs in my studio when the pot of coffee I had consumed caught up with me and forced me into taking a quick potty break, I flew up the stairs & opened the door when I saw this beautiful sun light coming through the front window as the sun was setting in the west. It had a gorgeous (magic hour) glow to it and it was beaming right into my favorite room in the house (my formal dinning room) which I painted a deep barn red because I had seen it on CRIBS in many Celebreties homes and thought it looked very classy. The color goes great against any bronze fixtures like chandeliers, wall plates and furniture fixtures thus making it my favorite room because of the looks & feel of it.
The light was focused on this area which is a serving table with this plant on top of it and one of my old piano photos mounted above it. The light was hitting the plant leafs just right to highlight them beautifully along with creating shadows on the wall from the bush that sits in front of the window outside. I was blown away at the scene it created and RAN for my camera before I lost the light which was setting FAST ! I snapped off a few frames hand held and then continued my emergency run for the little boys room. After the pure joy of 'Taking Care of Business' there I made a bee line for the digital dark room.
I processed 80% of the RAW file in LightRoom 2 using the New 'Adjustment Brush' as a burn & dodge tool to bring the highlights of the light strikes on the leafs out and brought the shadows to a more pleasurable level, all using the Adjustment Brush ! If you have LR2 and haven't learned how to use that brush I highly suggest you do because it is one of the coolest tools out there and is an amazing Dodge & Burn tool that can be customized to any level you need, a BRILLIANT Tool to say the least. While processing it I knew I wanted to turn this into a Fine Art piece to sell so after some minor sharpening & Contrast adjustments I headed into CS3 to add some Fine Art touches using OnOne Photo Frames Pro 4. I STACKED 7 frames together to create my own custom EDGE with red bleeds picking the color up with the eye dropper off the wall color paint. I adjusted the size of the layers, added some hand toned shapes and applied the stack several times as LAYERS, erasing portions around the edges after each application using a layer mask until I had the look I wanted to enhance the edges and allowed the red color to bleed properly, then finished it with a black with red keyline frame. ~ That concludes are lesson for today, so be sure to take that bathroom break when mother nature calls, it could lead to an "AH HAH MOMENT" ~ Best Regards, Bill ~
The FULL Size version of this image is available as a 'Limited Edition' piece in my FINE ART GALLERY for purchase
"Flowers In The Shadows"
(*This should be a funny story for you) This quickly become one of my favorite POD captures I've taken in recent months and certainly #1 for 2009 so far and all because I had to visit the little boys room ! LOL I was working on some images downstairs in my studio when the pot of coffee I had consumed caught up with me and forced me into taking a quick potty break, I flew up the stairs & opened the door when I saw this beautiful sun light coming through the front window as the sun was setting in the west. It had a gorgeous (magic hour) glow to it and it was beaming right into my favorite room in the house (my formal dinning room) which I painted a deep barn red because I had seen it on CRIBS in many Celebreties homes and thought it looked very classy. The color goes great against any bronze fixtures like chandeliers, wall plates and furniture fixtures thus making it my favorite room because of the looks & feel of it.
The light was focused on this area which is a serving table with this plant on top of it and one of my old piano photos mounted above it. The light was hitting the plant leafs just right to highlight them beautifully along with creating shadows on the wall from the bush that sits in front of the window outside. I was blown away at the scene it created and RAN for my camera before I lost the light which was setting FAST ! I snapped off a few frames hand held and then continued my emergency run for the little boys room. After the pure joy of 'Taking Care of Business' there I made a bee line for the digital dark room.
* * "POST PRODUCTION" * *
I processed 80% of the RAW file in LightRoom 2 using the New 'Adjustment Brush' as a burn & dodge tool to bring the highlights of the light strikes on the leafs out and brought the shadows to a more pleasurable level, all using the Adjustment Brush ! If you have LR2 and haven't learned how to use that brush I highly suggest you do because it is one of the coolest tools out there and is an amazing Dodge & Burn tool that can be customized to any level you need, a BRILLIANT Tool to say the least. While processing it I knew I wanted to turn this into a Fine Art piece to sell so after some minor sharpening & Contrast adjustments I headed into CS3 to add some Fine Art touches using OnOne Photo Frames Pro 4. I STACKED 7 frames together to create my own custom EDGE with red bleeds picking the color up with the eye dropper off the wall color paint. I adjusted the size of the layers, added some hand toned shapes and applied the stack several times as LAYERS, erasing portions around the edges after each application using a layer mask until I had the look I wanted to enhance the edges and allowed the red color to bleed properly, then finished it with a black with red keyline frame. ~ That concludes are lesson for today, so be sure to take that bathroom break when mother nature calls, it could lead to an "AH HAH MOMENT" ~ Best Regards, Bill ~
* * "PURCHASE" * *
The FULL Size version of this image is available as a 'Limited Edition' piece in my FINE ART GALLERY for purchase
3/6/09
(*This should be a funny story for you) This quickly become one of my favorite POD captures I've taken in recent months and certainly #1 for 2009 so far and all because I had to visit the little boys room ! LOL I was working on some images downstairs in my studio when the pot of coffee I had consumed caught up with me and forced me into taking a quick potty break, I flew up the stairs & opened the door when I saw this beautiful sun light coming through the front window as the sun was setting in the west. It had a gorgeous (magic hour) glow to it and it was beaming right into my favorite room in the house (my formal dinning room) which I painted a deep barn red because I had seen it on CRIBS in many Celebreties homes and thought it looked very classy. The color goes great against any bronze fixtures like chandeliers, wall plates and furniture fixtures thus making it my favorite room because of the looks & feel of it.
The light was focused on this area which is a serving table with this plant on top of it and one of my old piano photos mounted above it. The light was hitting the plant leafs just right to highlight them beautifully along with creating shadows on the wall from the bush that sits in front of the window outside. I was blown away at the scene it created and RAN for my camera before I lost the light which was setting FAST ! I snapped off a few frames hand held and then continued my emergency run for the little boys room. After the pure joy of 'Taking Care of Business' there I made a bee line for the digital dark room.
I processed 80% of the RAW file in LightRoom 2 using the New 'Adjustment Brush' as a burn & dodge tool to bring the highlights of the light strikes on the leafs out and brought the shadows to a more pleasurable level, all using the Adjustment Brush ! If you have LR2 and haven't learned how to use that brush I highly suggest you do because it is one of the coolest tools out there and is an amazing Dodge & Burn tool that can be customized to any level you need, a BRILLIANT Tool to say the least. While processing it I knew I wanted to turn this into a Fine Art piece to sell so after some minor sharpening & Contrast adjustments I headed into CS3 to add some Fine Art touches using OnOne Photo Frames Pro 4. I STACKED 7 frames together to create my own custom EDGE with red bleeds picking the color up with the eye dropper off the wall color paint. I adjusted the size of the layers, added some hand toned shapes and applied the stack several times as LAYERS, erasing portions around the edges after each application using a layer mask until I had the look I wanted to enhance the edges and allowed the red color to bleed properly, then finished it with a black with red keyline frame. ~ That concludes are lesson for today, so be sure to take that bathroom break when mother nature calls, it could lead to an "AH HAH MOMENT" ~ Best Regards, Bill ~
The FULL Size version of this image is available as a 'Limited Edition' piece in my FINE ART GALLERY for purchase
"Flowers In The Shadows"
(*This should be a funny story for you) This quickly become one of my favorite POD captures I've taken in recent months and certainly #1 for 2009 so far and all because I had to visit the little boys room ! LOL I was working on some images downstairs in my studio when the pot of coffee I had consumed caught up with me and forced me into taking a quick potty break, I flew up the stairs & opened the door when I saw this beautiful sun light coming through the front window as the sun was setting in the west. It had a gorgeous (magic hour) glow to it and it was beaming right into my favorite room in the house (my formal dinning room) which I painted a deep barn red because I had seen it on CRIBS in many Celebreties homes and thought it looked very classy. The color goes great against any bronze fixtures like chandeliers, wall plates and furniture fixtures thus making it my favorite room because of the looks & feel of it.
The light was focused on this area which is a serving table with this plant on top of it and one of my old piano photos mounted above it. The light was hitting the plant leafs just right to highlight them beautifully along with creating shadows on the wall from the bush that sits in front of the window outside. I was blown away at the scene it created and RAN for my camera before I lost the light which was setting FAST ! I snapped off a few frames hand held and then continued my emergency run for the little boys room. After the pure joy of 'Taking Care of Business' there I made a bee line for the digital dark room.
* * "POST PRODUCTION" * *
I processed 80% of the RAW file in LightRoom 2 using the New 'Adjustment Brush' as a burn & dodge tool to bring the highlights of the light strikes on the leafs out and brought the shadows to a more pleasurable level, all using the Adjustment Brush ! If you have LR2 and haven't learned how to use that brush I highly suggest you do because it is one of the coolest tools out there and is an amazing Dodge & Burn tool that can be customized to any level you need, a BRILLIANT Tool to say the least. While processing it I knew I wanted to turn this into a Fine Art piece to sell so after some minor sharpening & Contrast adjustments I headed into CS3 to add some Fine Art touches using OnOne Photo Frames Pro 4. I STACKED 7 frames together to create my own custom EDGE with red bleeds picking the color up with the eye dropper off the wall color paint. I adjusted the size of the layers, added some hand toned shapes and applied the stack several times as LAYERS, erasing portions around the edges after each application using a layer mask until I had the look I wanted to enhance the edges and allowed the red color to bleed properly, then finished it with a black with red keyline frame. ~ That concludes are lesson for today, so be sure to take that bathroom break when mother nature calls, it could lead to an "AH HAH MOMENT" ~ Best Regards, Bill ~
* * "PURCHASE" * *
The FULL Size version of this image is available as a 'Limited Edition' piece in my FINE ART GALLERY for purchase
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