“Pink Dogwood Blossoms” – Ancaster, Ontario
“A fine work of art – music, dance, painting, story – has the power to silence the chatter in the mind and lift us to another place.”
― Robert McKee
I could not resist posting one more dogwood image before the season passes. The image above was transformed into a painterly image using Topaz Impressions software in Photoshop. I can’t paint well and this plug-in allows me to create images in such a way as to satisfy the painter trapped inside me.
For me, it’s about how the image or moment made me feel and I try to convey that feeling through my images, be it a photograph or, as in this case, a painting or likeness to one.
How do you feel about this treatment?
Nikon D800
Tamron SP AF 17-50mm f/2.8 XR Di II LD As @ 32mm
1/60 sec, f/4.0, ISO 200
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I like what you did to the image. Yes, it has some additional texture like a painting, but you haven’t gone overboard in applying the effect, so it retains most of its qualities as a photograph.
Thanks for the feedback Mike.
Lovely shot.
Thank you.
I like what you did with this-it is a lovely image with a softness and a more impressionistic view of the blossoms-l I like applying painterly touches especially to nature and landscape photographs, in the hopes that the viewer is seeing how I *see*–
Thanks, exactly what I’ trying to accomplish.