photo art Friday - black & white

This week Bonnie at Pixel Dust Photo Art is hosting a black & white edition of Photo Art Friday.  How fun.  Typically when I think about editing a photo, I think about colors and textures.  Well, I got rid of the colors, but played with the texture.  I layered a photo with a texture of peeling paint on top of the original photo and erased the backgound leaving the car in the foreground covered in texture.  It was a fun prompt from Bonnie to try something new.

vintage car in Maine with a texture of peeling paint

The rain here in Massachusetts is finally letting up.  Happy Friday!

Photo Art Friday featuring bokeh

This Friday Bonnie at Pixel Dust Photo Art is showcasing photo art that features bokeh.   I took this photo of a bright orange poppy in my garden.  I added a bokeh image, increased the opacity and edited using photoscape and pixlr.

poppy photo art with bokeh

Thank you very much for taking the time to check out my work.  Be sure to visit Photo Art Friday to see more photo art bokeh !!

poppies

Spring is finally here .... and so is the pollen.  The pine trees were releasing big billowing clouds of  pollen this morning and everything is covered in green dust.

The first poppy in my garden decided to pop open.  I only have one blossom, but it is a beauty.  I went to the local garden center on Mothers Day and wandered around taking photos of flowers, and found more poppies there.



poppy in my garden with a bit of bokeh in the background

garden center poppies

poppy seeds close up 

the irises are gorgeous everywhere too !! I love spring flowers

Happy Memorial Day weekend  - I hope it is lovely wherever you are.

Photo Art featuring a horizon

This week Bonnie, the host of Photo Art Friday at Pixel Dust Photo Art, suggested creating and posting a piece of photo art featuring a horizon.   I enhanced and saturated the colors of my photograph of a boardwalk at a salt marsh located in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.  I added a postcard from the Graphic's Fairy and an opaque layer of texture.  Then I added a border from pixlr (another free photo editing software).  I chose this photo as my horizon subject because it looks like the boardwalk is never ending as it disappears into the horizon. 

Have a wonderful weekend!

Photo Heart Connection for April

Twas the last day of April

  

And all through the local garden shop

Nature was stirring and starting to pop

When in the middle of the perrenials there arose such a clatter

We took a closer look to see what was the matter

When what to our  wonderous eyes should appear

But a mother robin flying out and her beautiful eggs so dear

Happy Wonderous Spring - my April photo heart connection...

Please visit The Kat Eye View to see more Heart Connections for the month

Amber

Took this photo of a little cutie in Concord on Patriots day. 

Edited, and changed to a sepia tone.  Added a layer and ended up with beautiful red hair which made me think of my dear friend Joanne and her oldest daughter Amber.  Played a little more with editing to make this look like an old photo.

 The name Amber is of course perfect for a female with amber hair♥  Love you Jo, Amber and Meg !!

Experimenting with shutter speed

The Wayside Inn Grist Mill features a waterfall which was the perfect subject to use in my practice to learn more about shutter speed.

F-stop:             f 5.6

exposure time:  1/100 sec.

ISO speed:       ISO-200

F-stop:             f /4

exposure time:  1/160 sec.

ISO speed:       ISO-200

F-stop:             f 6.3

exposure time:  1/30 sec.

ISO speed:       ISO-200

F-stop:             f 14

exposure time:  1/6 sec.

ISO speed:       ISO-200

The slower the shutter speed the more blurred the water will look.

I guess it is a matter of personal preference.  I think it's a neat effect.  My Mother didn't really like it at all.

I've been taking part in a class given by Elisha Snow called Mastering Manual Mode.  It has really forced me to get out of my comfort zone and get to know my camera a lot better.