"Fire MAN & The Mermaid"
OK I'll try to make this as simple as possible, I was sitting by the fireplace playing a video game before and I started staring at the fire log burning and watching all the neat shapes it was creating while the flames jumped around. Feeling in an artistic mood I grabbed the camera & fired off few frames to see what I could capture. This frame jumped right out at me and in MY HEAD it told a story with fascinating forms of light, fire & smoke and just by staring at it for a few seconds I saw the following story in the frame and found it appropriate for Halloween. See if you can visualize the images I see when I tell my story below. . . . . Boooooo Hoooo hoooo hoooooo (dreary organ music plays in the background) No Flame Ghosts were harmed in the making of this image!
There once was a male ghost laying in front of his TV and having had one too many beers, the last one laying by his hand he begins to fall off to sleep. He begins to dream about a mermaid who comes to comfort him dripping wet and places her back against his for support after her long swim to shore. Some of us dream in color, others in black & white but our ghostly man dreams in both. So the story ends with our ghostly man getting his mermaid and both live happily ever after, on Halloween of course ;)
ROTFL - I just felt like having some artistic fun with this one, if you look at the image in full color you can see the same images (which have been untouched & unmanipulated). When I looked at this frame that's what I saw but figured I would do a little selective color work to this to better show what I saw in the flames. The image was simply done with a few layers, the master in color and then I made a custom black & white layer above it, used a layer mask over those and then brought back the color parts of the flames I wanted to use to highlight the story in my head so it was easier to visualize in others minds. You can clearly see the man & woman back to back, the bottle of beer at his hands and the TV in front of him. I then let some of the orange flame color & highlights off the fire log come through on the bottom to give it some contrast & texture of what they were lying on. I liked how the woman's hair is highlighted & contrasted with different shades of orange & yellow flame heat and also contours her body nicely along with the man, bottle & TV all did the same naturally in the fireplace like this & makes it look likes it's suspended or floating. It's one of those light & burn 3 hr. fire logs I had lit and I just had a lot of fun making this abstract image for a change rather then just shoot a photo today.
Hope you all enjoyed my ABSTRACT MIND today, tomorrow I will be back to NORMAL LOL...... "HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE" ! Enjoy the kids and their GHOSTLY COSTUMES!
~BILL~
"Fire MAN & The Mermaid"
OK I'll try to make this as simple as possible, I was sitting by the fireplace playing a video game before and I started staring at the fire log burning and watching all the neat shapes it was creating while the flames jumped around. Feeling in an artistic mood I grabbed the camera & fired off few frames to see what I could capture. This frame jumped right out at me and in MY HEAD it told a story with fascinating forms of light, fire & smoke and just by staring at it for a few seconds I saw the following story in the frame and found it appropriate for Halloween. See if you can visualize the images I see when I tell my story below. . . . . Boooooo Hoooo hoooo hoooooo (dreary organ music plays in the background) No Flame Ghosts were harmed in the making of this image!
There once was a male ghost laying in front of his TV and having had one too many beers, the last one laying by his hand he begins to fall off to sleep. He begins to dream about a mermaid who comes to comfort him dripping wet and places her back against his for support after her long swim to shore. Some of us dream in color, others in black & white but our ghostly man dreams in both. So the story ends with our ghostly man getting his mermaid and both live happily ever after, on Halloween of course ;)
ROTFL - I just felt like having some artistic fun with this one, if you look at the image in full color you can see the same images (which have been untouched & unmanipulated). When I looked at this frame that's what I saw but figured I would do a little selective color work to this to better show what I saw in the flames. The image was simply done with a few layers, the master in color and then I made a custom black & white layer above it, used a layer mask over those and then brought back the color parts of the flames I wanted to use to highlight the story in my head so it was easier to visualize in others minds. You can clearly see the man & woman back to back, the bottle of beer at his hands and the TV in front of him. I then let some of the orange flame color & highlights off the fire log come through on the bottom to give it some contrast & texture of what they were lying on. I liked how the woman's hair is highlighted & contrasted with different shades of orange & yellow flame heat and also contours her body nicely along with the man, bottle & TV all did the same naturally in the fireplace like this & makes it look likes it's suspended or floating. It's one of those light & burn 3 hr. fire logs I had lit and I just had a lot of fun making this abstract image for a change rather then just shoot a photo today.
Hope you all enjoyed my ABSTRACT MIND today, tomorrow I will be back to NORMAL LOL...... "HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE" ! Enjoy the kids and their GHOSTLY COSTUMES!
~BILL~
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