Joan Field, FPSA  


Fantasy World above North Lake, High Sierra CA by Joan Field, FPSA

February 2025 - Fantasy World above North Lake, High Sierra CA

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Title: Fantasy world above North Lake, High Sierra, CA

How I did It: Our camera club used to take weekend trips into th eSierra at prime leaf time. This trip had perfect leaves. TTo lencapture the experience, I came up with using spheres to clpture the surrounding landscape and aspens. tThe spheres were created in a program that no longer exists for the Mac, anyway. In addition to making great spheres, it also had oil painting and other apps. I think it had an animal in its name. If anyone is familiar with it, I would like to know.a. its history,, I used some of the terrirory near the lake to create the spheres and brought then in as separate layers, created shadows I think. Flattened the image when I was satisfied with the placement of the spheres.
If anyone has found an app that will make a good sphere, [lease let me know. The spherize command in Filters for the Mac does a very poor job. I had searched the out once extensively and could only find sphere creating. Info that took may steps. Why no-one thought to make an action of it, I have no idea. So, if any of you know anythjogn about sphere-making, please pass on the info to me. I would bleu very grateful. Apologies foer the typos.


4 comments posted




Bob Wills   Bob Wills
Hi Joan, I'm not a n Apple user, but I see you use Adobe in your bio, so https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/make-a-sphere-on-an-old-mac/m-p/9447222
might help if you have an older Mac. I like the concept of using spheres. If you do get some help making them, I might transform the size and move them to match more to the areas they represent. Beautiful landscape with or without the spheres.   Posted: 02/09/2025 18:10:18



Ian Ledgard   Ian Ledgard
A very artistic backroud which would have stood on it's own merit. The addition of the spheres takes it to another level.Great work, but afraid I cannot help on the software side as I am a PC user.   Posted: 02/12/2025 17:20:29



Gunter Haibach   Gunter Haibach
WOW - great picture. Like everything about it. Strong composition, great colours.   Posted: 02/14/2025 17:23:12



Robin Mellor   Robin Mellor
A new view of the Sierras. Very alien landing. I like the concept very much. I used to make spheres in Photoshop but no longer use it, having switched to Affinity Photo 2. I bet there's a YouTube video about it, somewhere.   Posted: 02/19/2025 11:39:27



 

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