Creative interpretations: Tropical Plant

Swampy · #1 03-07-2006, 02:41 PM

I was on a mission yesterday to get some pictures of industries and businesses in the south end of the county. There is a HUGE greenhouse operation down there and I caught this shot in macro mode.

Play and have fun..

NancyJ · #2 03-07-2006, 03:38 PM

wow... no takers so far, I guess I'll throw my hat into the ring first then

I'm trying to be more expressive and free form with my art, less clincal and precise and not obsess over going 'over the lines' etc, basically let it all hang out.

Swampy · #3 03-07-2006, 04:12 PM

Nancy... I just put it up about an hour ago.. LOL

palms1 · #4 03-08-2006, 06:48 AM

Like this photo Swampy lots of possibilities
Over hear it is called Peace Lily and is grown as a house plant it's botanical name is "Spathiphyllum" ( i will admit to looking it up as not that brainy and the common name will usually do for me !

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On this i used the ahb and pastels filter

Palms

NancyJ · #5 03-08-2006, 07:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Swampy

Nancy... I just put it up about an hour ago.. LOL

damn these pesky time differences.

Steve Conway · #6 03-08-2006, 08:32 AM

Buzzed flower.

Steve

Swampy · #7 03-08-2006, 08:47 AM

Palms... very nice. The plant is so simple it can hold up to a lot of manipulation. I can almost see brush strokes in yours.

Steve... I like the flower but love the way the background became so varigated in colors!

Steve Conway · #8 03-08-2006, 11:03 AM

A by-product of bringing out the edges I guess. There is more color there than I had previously noticed.

Thanks...

Steve

Quote:

Originally Posted by Swampy

Steve... I like the flower but love the way the background became so varigated in colors!

Nanls · #9 03-08-2006, 12:14 PM

All very nice effects so far.. pretty watercolor steve

Here is something a little different.
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palms1 · #10 03-08-2006, 12:26 PM

AAh Nancy very very cute

Palms

Kraellin · #11 03-08-2006, 01:11 PM

very cool. nancy

i went a bit differently also. the scientific name for this is 'cobrata serpantium royale'.

craig

PhotoVagrant · #12 03-08-2006, 01:28 PM

A quick effort with an Photoshop action

lkroll · #13 03-08-2006, 08:50 PM

Just trying some fine-art work this time. For those who have not heard about Pseudogrey, just click here. I used the 16-bit to 8-bit perl script by Alex Wilson for this version of Pseudogrey (I use a lot of variations, but went back to an oldy, for me that is, for this conversion; yes I'm a geek; lol).

By the way, the jpeg compression process does cause a lot of tone loss, but I was able to retain over 900 tones anyway (out of a possible 1786 tones).

edit:

Found some issues which I fixed. Also increase the number of tones to over 1000.

Kraellin · #14 03-08-2006, 10:38 PM

lk,

that's VERY cool!

how do you run or implement that script?

craig

lkroll · #15 03-08-2006, 10:52 PM

I use Perl2EXE (free version; some caveates using the free version since it adds a 2 second delay at the tail end of the conversion, but I'm cheap and can pay this price). I created the executable and created a shortcut to it on my desktop. I drag the raw file (needs to be 16-bit IBM Greyscale RAW) onto the shortcut and it executes. If you download the perl2exe program and install, you can use the compiled program (from the perlscript) here. Just place all these files in the same directory as Perl2EXE is located at and create your shortcut from the batch file.

Photoshop: I did do some enhancements prior to the conversion using Bruce's Action blened with the original.