Tuesday.
I’m doing a course with Fibre Arts Take Two called Embrace the Journey. This is taking me out of my comfort zone with painting on fabric and paper. Here I am using moulding paste on an old book page to add texture to the page and strengthen the paper so I can print the flower photo over it. I combined them in Photoshop to see if I liked the result before printing. The whole idea for me, is to add physical texture to my printed images.
Tuesday.
The last Textured Tuesday of 2023!
A couple of images from Loch Lurgainn combined and altered in Photoshop then made into a PNG (a see through file) and then I played around with painted papers from a course I’m presently doing with Fibre Arts Take Two and different Blend Modes in Photoshop. In all I’m quite pleased with the results. Painting is not something I like to do so this has been a stretch but the results are starting to speak for themselves.
Tuesday.
I’ve been playing around with wet cyanotypes for the last week or so. I liked some and others not so much but combining them in Photoshop in layers with other images can make things look so different.
Tuesday.
Home for all of Dec and Jan so I started a course which I hope to find useful to add dimension and actual physical texture to my photographs. It’s with Fibre Arts Take Two (FATT) an Australian team who run all sorts of fibre type related courses. The one I’m doing is called ‘Embrace The Journey’ and uses painting, fabric, collage and substrates to print photos onto. Somewhere in this mix I hope to find something I can use. Very early days of painting, so I layered some of my painted pieces over a cyanotype to see what would happen and played in Photoshop. It’s not the physical texture I’m looking for but I have to do more of the course before we print onto a textured surface. That will be exciting and scary!
Tuesday.
Balnakiel Bay is a fairly protected inlet so compared to the other beaches on the northern coast had very little waves. The tide was also out which gave us beautiful reflections on the sand. Perfect for ICM (Intentional Camera Movement) to get watercolour type images.
Tuesday.
The waves were pumping at Balnakeil Bay and I had a fabulous time capturing many shots but I also took images of the running water coming across the sand from the small rivulets leaking beneath the sand dunes. These I took on a slow shutter speed and then upped the colour in proccessing.
Tuesday.
There was enough movement in the waters of Lybster Harbour to make the fishing boat reflections interesting. Particularly the red one whose reflection looked like scattered red leaves across the water.
Tuesday
All the images below use the same three photos combined in layers in Photoshop. The crabapples are from Findhorn and the other two from Cromarty on the Black Isle, both in Scotland. Some have a photo repeated or left out but they are basically the same, I use the layer blend modes to make all the differences in the final image. It’s a rabbit hole you can go down and not come up for hours, it’s so much fun and the varitations are endless. These an only a few I came up with from the original 3 photos.
Tuesday.
Two very different images of the Winding Walks Woodland, each giving a different impression of this lovely little wooded area.
Tuesday.
Leaning over the back of the boat I could capture the wake and include the reflection of the boat in the calm water. The only thing disturbing the water was the movement of the wake expanding out from the propeller under the boat. Every turn of the propeller is the same but the angle of the boat and the slight swell and the previous wake waves all go into making every image very different to the last one.
LEE CLELAND 