Showing posts with label floral. Show all posts
Showing posts with label floral. Show all posts

Thursday, November 29, 2012

10 permutations; revelations of backlit symmetry

Ten permutations of a single image, 
using the PicFrameApp along with Snapseed...
continuing to play with cropping and symmetry...


(scroll to the bottom to find out what you're looking at, 
or to confirm your guess)



























Below,
the "source material," 


Above, the result of editing 
the 'original,' below,
an unfurling tulip in a vase on our coffee table,
backlit at sunset:


Tulip. Sunset. Surreal.



Sunday, November 4, 2012

evening light, on the coffee table...

My wife bought some tulips the other day, put them in a vase on the coffee table...

While watching the news this evening, the flowers were backlit as the sun set--got the iPhone out for an 'inside-the-flower' shot...and then thought I'd play with it using snapseed. So, a before-and-after shot:


...used the drama, grunge, and center focus tools, and also a bit of the selective tool to 'de-brighten' a couple of items in the background to make them blend in with the dark background caused by using the 'old lens' option in the center focus filter.