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Old 07-16-2003, 04:28 PM
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PHOTO ART: Mini-challenge #149 – Great Blue Heron (this time with image!)

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.

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Old 07-16-2003, 08:34 PM
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He's broken free...
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Old 07-16-2003, 09:54 PM
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Ooooooo - CJ, that's wonderful!

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Old 07-16-2003, 10:21 PM
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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...

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Old 07-17-2003, 12:34 AM
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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
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Old 07-17-2003, 03:47 AM
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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...

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Old 07-17-2003, 10:33 AM
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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!
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Old 07-18-2003, 01:25 AM
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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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Old 07-18-2003, 01:59 AM
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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.
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Old 07-18-2003, 06:38 PM
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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.
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Old 07-19-2003, 01:18 AM
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Sometimes you just have to play.
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Old 07-19-2003, 01:27 AM
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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.
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Old 07-19-2003, 07:28 AM
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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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Old 07-19-2003, 03:09 PM
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vijayan

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

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Hello everyone!
This is my first try and post......so please go easy on me
I had lots of fun!
Artfully yours,
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Old 07-19-2003, 11:48 PM
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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.

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Old 07-21-2003, 01:38 PM
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Smile

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?

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Old 07-21-2003, 09:30 PM
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Hey all,

I used two filters to come up with this. Hardly worthy of the original, but it was fun.
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Old 07-21-2003, 09:59 PM
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LQQKER--I'd guess fantasic machines paint engine for one, but what's the other one? It's a nice combo.
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Old 07-22-2003, 04:56 AM
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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.
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Old 07-22-2003, 05:07 AM
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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.
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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.

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Old 07-22-2003, 10:52 PM
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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..

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Old 07-24-2003, 06:40 PM
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Wink Heron my way

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.
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Old 07-24-2003, 08:25 PM
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heron version 2

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

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Old 07-24-2003, 09:06 PM
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Cathy

Both of those are beautiful. The second is even better than the first. I look forward to seeing more of your work.
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Old 07-24-2003, 11:14 PM
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Tenneysmith, the second one is very good. something like Pastel works..

regaards..

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Old 07-25-2003, 12:00 AM
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Heron

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!
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Old 07-26-2003, 06:02 AM
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Annadarling, very good Brown tone and it make the Heron as something like a hunter.... good work.
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Old 07-26-2003, 06:06 AM
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One Flair Bird.

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

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