PHOTO ART: Mini-challenge #98 – Lighthouse

[BillC]

This sure is the place to come to really learn what creativity is!
Jean - I really like the storm effect and your use of texture
Ken - very creative with the night effect and fog...
Tyeise - Like your 2nd version - something surreal about it
Alan - nice paint job!
Regards to all
Bill

[Blind Willie]

Great work all, so many different approaches and takes, it just amazes me at the quality of work you produce.
Two really struck me: Tyeise, stunning, simply stunning. Both are great but the second is really realistic. Ken B, I was thinking of trying a night shot, but so far can't seem to get it as flawless as yours, guess I have to keep plugging away at it. Great interpratation, just beautiful.
Blind Willie

[phili1]

Twins nice texture and effect.
Phyliss love your sky in number two and no 1 texture.
Charity no 1 has a very nice mistic effect.
Pam nice pencil
Lacto, very interesting cloud burst
Bill awsome how you do the lighting.
Danny, it looks like you hand painted it.
Alan, I really like no 2
Bill C super effect.
Tyeise both you and Bill have grewat ligting effects.
Ken how did you do the lighting in the toweer. I love the look.

Well I got some new toys, so I used a combo of about three filter.

Its called Burning sun

[phili1]

In soace they talk about a vortex, a black hole, on earthits the Bermuda triangle.

I used a couple of embossing features

[KayakBob]

Pam, I’m trying this sketch technique as soon as possible.

Charity, Great Fresco, Love the colors and just the right amount of detail.

Jean, Nice glowing edges. But wares the neon red dog, beer sign?


Changed brightness & contrast, used polygonal lasso tool to mask window.

Painted with low opacity yellow, and white in the upper right hand corner.

Then painted in the silhouette figure with the paint brush and various opacities.

Painted window glow with extra large brush, and low brush opacity.

[TwinbNJ]

Wow all of the submissions are WONDERFUL

--- all the effects and variations of day, night, fog, storms --- not to mention women in the window!

I wanted to brighten up the image and add some color. Used clouds to create the sky. Created several layers, one to bring out the flowers in the front. Then added 4 or 5 filters till I got a look I liked.

[TwinANJ]

Ok now three people have used a "Starburst" in working the light house I really like the effect. The question is where do you find it?

Phil the black hole is great and as stated above you can tell I like the starburst effect.

Bob.... Could not find the Red Dog neon
I guess at the light house they never heard of shades

Cleaver and just a little risqué. Daring!

Jill very good I like the background and how the flowers stand out. Your getting good at this stuff!

[Blind Willie]

Fantastic, I'm glad this isn't a juried competition. Simple rendition, adjusted levels to darken, added a raygun effect, darkened edges and dodged the rooftop, added serious fog and rain. I always seem to see things on the darker side.
Blind Willie

[phili1]

Jill thats a work of art, something you hang on a wall, very nice.

Very nice Blind Wille. Ok I have got to ask your renditions are real good but you need eyes to do it, where did the blind come in.


There is a storm brewing, the eye of the hurrican.

[Snoleoprd]

Hi all,

Here is another rendition, some blurring, some gradients, a little color shift and a lens flare. Kind of an early dawn or dusk effect and a slight amount of fog. And here you go....

[TwinANJ]

Snoleoprd very real. I like the added touch of the interior light. I think it comes off as more of a dawn look.

Jean

[pstewart]

Bill, I really like the “painted on glass” look of your lighthouse with the radial blur. I would just suggest that you center the lightburst at the light tower rather than in the middle of the frame.

Tyeise, nice job of “turning on the light!”

Ken, nice effect...low fog with stars still visible...guess that happens near the coast! I like the way you did the light beam.

Jean, artsy version of a storm...good job with colors and rough textures to create that mood.

Phili, that embossed one with the concentric rings in the sky is really a new look...I like it!

Bob, LOL! That will stop the ships all right! LOL!

Jill, nice brightening job! Love your treatment of the sky.

Willie, great job making the light, and I like the rain too.

Alan, great twilight look!

[siodhach]

Well ... it's been a while, but here goes.
I started off with pencile 2 and addded a few filters and te flag.

Don

[siodhach]

Well ... It's been a while

Don

[Blacknight]

REALLY nice effect! Brings out lots of interesting detail. One thing I would have done differently would have been to run the flag the other way (nice touch, the flag...)so that it wouldn't cover the lighthouse and more evenly balance with the other red in the lower corner.