12/5/11

texture tuesday: celebrate

Kim Klassen is once again hosting her Texture Tuesday with the theme of celebrate.....I started the holiday season off with a traditional-to-us games night for friends and family (we played bunco for hours).  I made a couple of flower arrangements to add to the decor so my celebrate photo is a macro of part of the arrangement.


Just a simple processing was all this shot needed I thought - first I duplicated the image and used soft light at 80% to up the contrast.  Then I used Kim's Music Lovin' texture at color burn 50% to pump up the color and add those grungy edges.  Those ornaments are pretty reflective and caught my tripod, my kitchen lights & cupboards, etc.  I'll really have to work on positioning them better next time :)

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Then I participated in Nancy's Texture Tuesday with a different prompt - she added some new freebie textures (visit her on flickr) in a garage series and wanted to see what could be done with those.  I used 2 of her garage textures and arrived at this:

starting:

Addition of 2 of Nancy's textures:

One of her textures used at saturation, really reduced the saturation and the other one brought in all the grungy spots.  I erased (at 40%) much of the spots on the white wall and side of the boat - it was a bit strong on this particular image.  Visit Nancy at All Pulped Out on Tuesday to see how others used her garage series.

16 comments:

  1. Beautiful shots Terrie. Those flower petals almost seem translucent!

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  2. It is so much fun playing with textures, isn't it? I love your edits. :)

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  3. love the reflections in those Christmas ornaments...the texture adds such wonderful tones

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  4. Lovely texture choices and applications! I always learn something new when visiting other blogs and seeing their techniques. Thank you for sharing :)

    Kathy

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  5. Great work again! Valerie

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  6. Beuatiful macro shot, Terrie. And wonderful celebration story! Lovely use of texture, too, as it makes the ornaments look old-fashioned. Perfect.

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  7. Both are excellent.
    I love grunge.

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  8. Terrie, I love what you did with both of these. The macro of the centerpiece is just stunning.
    I also worked with Nancy's textures and loved the result. Your boat turned out great!

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  9. Elegant macro photo. I'll have to check out Nancy's textures. Thanks for sharing.

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  10. I do love the reflections in the ornaments.

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  11. both are wonderful, and it is a joy to play with nancy´s textures!

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  12. The texture work really made your boat shot stand out! Nice work!

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  13. sounds like you had a fun game night! love your arrangement and treatment. i will have to check out Nancy's textures the boat is wonderful!

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  14. wonderful processing and lovely compositions. i always enjoy nancy's textures, too. thanks for sharing. {visiting from TT}

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  15. Beautiful images and effects...thank you for sharing! I actually loved that the reflection of your tripod and kitchen could be seen in the Christmas ornaments. :)

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  16. Anonymous6:25 AM

    beautiful processing of the boat photo !


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