Diana Magor, MPSA, APSA  

Alien spaceship approach by Diana Magor, MPSA, APSA

February 2022 - Alien spaceship approach

February 2022 - Diana Magor, MPSA, APSA

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February 2022 - Diana Magor, MPSA, APSA

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I love playing with creative images even when they don't all work. This started out life as a railway station sign in Tasmania. I did my usual double twirl technique and then I used another technique which creates 'bubbles' of the altered image. I had to blur the join line to make it less obvious and then I coped the original bubble multiple times , reducing the size each time and placing them further and further away from the centre. I added a flooded base and cloned the straight line to make it not show, then converted to mono -this is Nik wet rocks and then cropped to a nearly square shape.
It didn't take very long to do and I like the effect. So do you all like it as well? I can let you know more detail if you want to have a play yourselves. Not everything works but I have a variety of different, mostly colour pictures now

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13 comments posted

Stephen Levitas   Stephen Levitas
I like everything about the color version:
1. The colors.
2. The spirals.
3. The background.
4. The flooded base, with its straight line.
5. The interaction between the colored spirals and the background.
As to the monochrome version, I like the spirals and background just fine, but I preferred the straight horizon line of the colored version, so I don't care for the softened line of the monochrome version. I really liked the full view of the colored version, so having seen that, I don't care for the cropped monochrome version.
These are strictly personal reactions, coming from my eye as I look at each version.   Posted: 02/03/2022 16:54:38
Diana Magor   Diana Magor
Thanks for the comment, Steve. I felt the colour version was too stark and therefore looked like a composite whereas the mono looked more embedded and so more the finished article. The straight horizon was definitely the bit which I didn't like! I do enjoy the spirals and the colour and the fact that it looked like I had a shadow from the incoming spaceships, but I still think the mono is an improvement. Each to his own!   Posted: 02/06/2022 04:50:25
Tom McCreary   Tom McCreary
I am not much of a creative photo person, but what you created is very interesting and hard to imagine that it came from the sign. To me, the color version has too much color, so your conversion to monochrome is good. I agree that you should crop off some of the color image, but I think that you should have left all of the small bubbles coming in. I used Photoshop the convert to mono, and played with the color sliders.   Posted: 02/06/2022 10:23:50
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I like the monochrome version as I find the color version has too many distractions. The colors and the horizon line don't work for me as well as the monochrome. Making the swirls continuously smaller and on an angle is great, and flooding the bottom tops off the effect.
I would love to know your technique.   Posted: 02/12/2022 07:59:13
Diana Magor   Diana Magor
When our visitor has gone I will email you on how I did it.   Posted: 02/12/2022 08:47:15
Sophia Schade   Sophia Schade
(Group 5)
Hi Diana, I am a member of group 5 and mostly a nature photographer... But I wanted to leave you a note! What a fabulous artistic photo! Congratulations on making me think differently about my photos! I would love to learn how you did it! Congrats you have accomplished your goal!   Posted: 02/14/2022 05:30:50
Diana Magor   Diana Magor
Thanks! Glad you liked it. I will be sending the instructions to Lynne at some stage so I can let you know when they are there. I haven't worked out where to put them yet since they are a bit long for uploading here.   Posted: 02/14/2022 06:54:59
Diana Magor   Diana Magor
I have added an instruction on the bulletin board on how to do both the original twirl and then the bubbles   Posted: 02/14/2022 11:47:53
I like the color but cropped similar to the black and white would be better. It is an interesting effect.   Posted: 02/19/2022 18:17:11
Wes Odell   Wes Odell
Yes, indeed: I like what you've done and the composition therein.
  Posted: 02/20/2022 12:10:40
Diana Magor   Diana Magor
Well, it's a change from straightforward conversion to mono isn't it?   Posted: 02/20/2022 13:51:01
Wes Odell   Wes Odell
Yes, definitely, but as time passes, boredom can set in, so we explore new and crazy avenues.... and that's refreshing.   Posted: 02/20/2022 14:09:06
Diana Magor   Diana Magor
True!   Posted: 02/20/2022 14:25:14