PHOTO ART: Mini-challenge #149 – Great Blue Heron (this time with image!)

[DannyRaphael]

Guidelines? Give 'em a rest!

Since I'm going on vacation and won't be back for a week, let's give providing the detailed steps a vacation, too. As a reward for so many fine writeups so far the how-to detail will be optional for this mini-challenge.

Still, limit your submissions to no more than two (2).

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PHOTO ART: Mini-challenge #149 – Great Blue Heron

Here’s another “mini-challenge” to play with in the Photo-based Art category until the next major challenge is posted here.

The base image can be downloaded by clicking the link below the legal verbiage.

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This image, which I'll acctually attach this time [thank you, Cheryl], begs for the Trimoon watercolor technique. You can use any technique you please, of course.

Enjoy.

Danny

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LEGAL VERBIAGE
K.Darling retains the U.S. and international copyright © not only for the original image, but also for any photo-art versions of it. Unauthorized distribution or use of this image without permission are prohibited.

[CJ Swartz]

He's broken free...

[jeaniesa]

Ooooooo - CJ, that's wonderful!

Jeanie

[Pam]

That's gorgeous, CJ! Very nicely done. You inspired me to go dark with this one. Here's a version done mostly with dark strokes...

Pam

[roger_ele]

Hi all - this was fun. I went for the first Herons.

Roger

EDIT> Somehow I got 2 duplicate posts, so I deleted one of them. Now I have half an image, so this edit is to replace the half image with a full image .... keeping my fingers and toes crossed

[vijayan]

CJ, it is very spiritual one .. like "shaddows of the forgotten ancestors"..
No word to discribe it......

Pam, Very good work and well balanced...

Roger, good work, glimphes to the outer world...

thank you....

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vijayan

[CJ Swartz]

Glad you liked it! The original image is wonderful, and inspired me to think of Liberty.

Pam -- quite lovely!

Roger -- You've captured the prehistoric feel beautifully!

[vijayan]

A Golden Heron is mooving to an opposite direction...

since the source of images are so clear I am not going to write it down..
All the submissions have turned in to the way of CJ, and it sparks well.
thank you CJ,
but this is very traditional....

thank you all

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vijayan

[CJ Swartz]

vijayan -- I've never before seen a golden heron. I am glad that I have now seen a beautiful one. I like the contrast between the golden tones and the blues of the sky and the water, as well as the golden city.

[Cheryl H]

I can see this has been a great image to work with. The images posted so far have been fantastic. When I first saw this one, I knew I was saving it for the Trimoon tutorial. I was right--the soft look is great on it. I was also wrong--the stronger, more vibrant versions posted here that I would never have tried are also stunning.

[Cheryl H]

Sometimes you just have to play.

[CJ Swartz]

Cheryl,

You're right -- your soft look is great, and your vibrant look is stunning!

I appreciate those of you who have learned to put Trimoon's techniques to good use.

[vijayan]

Chery , both of them are very good , But that Heavenly one with Electric Blue is Great....
CJ, thaks for your kind appreciation..

thankyou

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vijayan

[roger_ele]

vijayan

Wonderful golden heron, perfect balance to the blue colors and muted tones. Very striking with great composition! Congratulations.

Roger

[sweetmango]

Hello everyone!
This is my first try and post......so please go easy on me
I had lots of fun!
Artfully yours,
sweetmango

[roger_ele]

We won't have to go easy on you ... it is beautifull

The bird has the feeling of floating - the angle and the depth you have given to the bottom are probaby responsible for that. Love the mood.

Roger

[sweetmango]

many thanks roger for your kind words...appreciate it!

i must take the time and read thru all the wonderful offerings this site has available...you guys are just so darn talented!!!
and one is never too old to learn.......right?

artfully yours,
sweetmango

[LQQKER]

Hey all,

I used two filters to come up with this. Hardly worthy of the original, but it was fun.

[Cheryl H]

LQQKER--I'd guess fantasic machines paint engine for one, but what's the other one? It's a nice combo.

[LQQKER]

Sorry, I didn't mean to make you guess, I was in a hurry.

I used paint engine for the water. Played with it until I got something that looked correct for waves and shadow.

For the bird I used Adapt.equalize at a low setting.

[LQQKER]

Sweetmango,

The colors you chose are excellent. The bird does appear to be floating over the blurred background.

Although this is subjective, being art. I thought the eye was a little "too" pronounced. everything else looks very nice.

[gina]

Hi everybody,

Every entry looks great! It is such a beautiful starting point too.
I tried to capture the glistening of water and that seemed ok but I'm not quit satisfied with the heron. Perhaps it doesn't stand out enough from the background. Not sure, I'll try another approach.

bye

[vijayan]

Roger, many thanks for the nice compliments...

Sweetmango, yours is a very good work.. It gives the feeling of the bird floating just above a lagoon..

LQQKER, feel very artistic...

gina, Good texture and good patterns..very good..

thank you all

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vijayan

[tenneysmith]

I used Sabers Modula Painter filter which gave it a bit of purple/pink tint, gaussian blur with ampisoft simplifier applied twice, applied leather resurface in Splat and Texturized in Photoshop.

[tenneysmith]

Version 2 .....

Some of the things I did to this was to seperate the heron from the background and worked on them seperately. I reshadowed the shadow over the origianal but made it more distintive and although reblurred the shadow was more shaped to the bird. Some filters that I used were ..... Fantastic Machines Paint engine, Xero Lithograph, Amphisoft simplifier, PS7 Accented Edges

Cathy

[Cheryl H]

Cathy

Both of those are beautiful. The second is even better than the first. I look forward to seeing more of your work.

[vijayan]

Tenneysmith, the second one is very good. something like Pastel works..

regaards..

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vijayan

[annadarling]

This pales in comparison to the other work here, but it was so interesting to see how everyone made the original his or her own that I wanted to join the fun!

[vijayan]

Annadarling, very good Brown tone and it make the Heron as something like a hunter.... good work.
thank you.

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vijayan

[vijayan]

One Flair Bird.

Contains , Noise, light effets and lense flair...

thank you..

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vijayan