I was inspired by Cummings's work to create a couple of colourful pieces of my own. I liked how she was using different hues to create more quirky animals, so I used a picture I took of a robin and used a picture I found online as a texture. This was one of the photos I had previously taken a few days before, it was one the same day I took the picture of the Canada Goose descending into water. I thought the picture of the robin would be appropriate as despite the bright red chest, the rest of the robin's feathers are just a dull grey-brown colour. So I thought this was the perfect bird to tamper with and see if I could create a more vibrant creature.
In Photoshop I selected the robin's chest and then used that outline to crop the texture down to fit the bird's chest. I wanted there to be a difference in colours between the bird's chest and the rest of its feathers. Then, I lowered the opacity to have a double exposure effect. I used the same techniques I learned when editing my first shoot, which once again worked really well with this shoot.
I thought I ended up with quite a subtle result. The texture does add vibrancy to the bird and it doesn't take any attention away from the rest of the image. Although I liked this image, and wondered what it would look like if I gave the rest of the bird some quirky feathers, so I went back into Photoshop and repeated the same process again, adding a different coloured texture to the remaining feathers:
After having re-edited my photo, I realised that I much prefer the first edit as it's far more subtle than the second one. Having said that I do really like this second edit too, but I just feel the first one was enough and I didn't need to add more colour to make the image better.
Doing this gave me an idea for a different edit, I thought that rather than using vibrant colours as my texture, why not a different animal's fur? I used a picture I took of a squirrel at the pond near my house.
Then used a leopard print pattern I found online and subtly edited the texture into my image. The grey squirrel in my photo had tufts of red fur, and so I replaced them for the leopard print. I thought this would be more effective than if I made the entire squirrel have leopard print and I figured it would't turn out so cheesy either. I quite like the subtleties in my edits, which is why I always try and make them as subtle as possible.
Something I really love about this edit is how the leopard skin print matched the tail, even though I didn't edit it at all. I like how the same colours are prominent within it, which is what makes the edit work so well.
I did another edit very quickly trying to incorporate some techniques I learned from both Cummings and my previous artist Vyacheslav Mischenko. I used a picture I took of a Red Admiral Butterfly and changed the hues on the image. I also added some sparkle to try and make it all a bit more obvious that it was edited, but I'm not particularly pleased with the end results as I think the image looks tacky.
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| Nikon D5100 - Sigma 70 - 300mm f/5.6 |
In Photoshop I selected the robin's chest and then used that outline to crop the texture down to fit the bird's chest. I wanted there to be a difference in colours between the bird's chest and the rest of its feathers. Then, I lowered the opacity to have a double exposure effect. I used the same techniques I learned when editing my first shoot, which once again worked really well with this shoot.
I thought I ended up with quite a subtle result. The texture does add vibrancy to the bird and it doesn't take any attention away from the rest of the image. Although I liked this image, and wondered what it would look like if I gave the rest of the bird some quirky feathers, so I went back into Photoshop and repeated the same process again, adding a different coloured texture to the remaining feathers:
After having re-edited my photo, I realised that I much prefer the first edit as it's far more subtle than the second one. Having said that I do really like this second edit too, but I just feel the first one was enough and I didn't need to add more colour to make the image better.
Doing this gave me an idea for a different edit, I thought that rather than using vibrant colours as my texture, why not a different animal's fur? I used a picture I took of a squirrel at the pond near my house.
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| Nikon D5100 - Sigma 70 - 300mm f/5.6 |
Then used a leopard print pattern I found online and subtly edited the texture into my image. The grey squirrel in my photo had tufts of red fur, and so I replaced them for the leopard print. I thought this would be more effective than if I made the entire squirrel have leopard print and I figured it would't turn out so cheesy either. I quite like the subtleties in my edits, which is why I always try and make them as subtle as possible.
Something I really love about this edit is how the leopard skin print matched the tail, even though I didn't edit it at all. I like how the same colours are prominent within it, which is what makes the edit work so well.
I did another edit very quickly trying to incorporate some techniques I learned from both Cummings and my previous artist Vyacheslav Mischenko. I used a picture I took of a Red Admiral Butterfly and changed the hues on the image. I also added some sparkle to try and make it all a bit more obvious that it was edited, but I'm not particularly pleased with the end results as I think the image looks tacky.
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