Mike Cowdrey, MPSA
January 2025 - Emerging
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About the Image(s)
The background is a shot of flower stamens from the garden taken with a macro lens. Into this I have cut and pasted a shot of a mallard duck that I took last month as it flew down to the lake. I treated this to a couple of Topaz Studio 2 filters at low volume, but Unfortunately I didn't make a note of the actual ones! Lastly I gave the image a frame of the stamen colour!
3 comments posted
A very nice Altered Reality image. Interesting subjects and a strong composition and nice colours. Posted: 01/09/2025 17:25:32
This is an interesting composite. It sort of seems to me that the duck is too small in comparison to the flower. I'm curious -- was your intention to show a duck emerging from the center of a flower? Or, to show a duck emerging from the center of some unrecognizable, colorful object that was propelling it forward? Or something else? Your title suggests to me that adding some movement might give it more impact. I played with radial motion blur on the flower and bird separately so there was less blur on the bird than the flower. Maybe this is way off of what you were aiming for, but I had fun playing. I love the lively colors in the image. Posted: 01/14/2025 23:59:09
I agree with Jan that the duck seems small. Also the image has the duck emerging, but there is a flower part behind the duck that would block that. Jan's idea of adding motion seems to work better. With the motion added the duck becomes the center of attention. Posted: 01/15/2025 19:48:47