Artsy fartsy stuff

[NV Whino]

Checking out Flicker with this.
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[GentryDixon]

1. Nice.

The second photo is very mysterious.

[NV Whino]

2. Thanks.

I was going after the look in the last photo, accidentally clicked on a different filter, and said, "Oh, that's cool."

[Curmudgeoness]

3. I like them all,

but the first one is my favorite. I love the way that everything just fades away with all the lines. Fog is really fun.

[Mira]

4. These make me feel like a little girl again

Post war Germany. Dreary weather. Old vineyards.
I like - but now I have to look elsewhere, I don't do maudlin.

[NV Whino]

5. I'll try for cheerful next time.

[Mira]

7. I realize now I may have been harsh

but so was every damn thing, emotionally, that got triggered. I reacted to that trigger.
The photos are wonderful, especially the one with the trees staggered in layers of dimensions. I have a painting I did years ago with a sun radiating a bit through such trees and fog, gave it to an old boyfriend, and I wish I had not.

[NV Whino]

8. Not to worry

I've been trying to get more emotion into photos, making them more art than photo. I fully understand the kind of reaction moody photos such as these can bring forth, and I'm sorry they pushed some unpleasant buttons for you.

[ManiacJoe]

6. I like #3.

What were the processing steps you used?

[NV Whino]

9. I started with overexposing the color original.

I use On1 software, and they have some wonderful filters and presets.

I knew I wanted the bleached out, grainy, sepia tone look so I converted to a brown toned image, lightened it more, added film grain and a white vignette. I think I did a little blur, too.

The second image, which is the opposite from what I was going for, was obtained by a quirky finger that selected the wrong filter. The options on these filters are so many and so varied, I could probably come up with 300 or more variations of this image. It's daunting at times to play with them. I have found, in order to not get lost in the filters, I must have a pretty firm idea of the end result that I want before I start.