“There’s More to Seeing ... ” Eve’s blog

Winter Grass

Sat, 26 Dec 2009 22:30:46 -0700

I am entranced by the combination of straight and curved lines formed by this winter grass. In their native color, the grass fades away into invisibility in front of this adobe wall. In manipulating the color in Photoshop, it was exciting to change the color so that the blades of grass took on an inky quality that made them stand out from the background. This image is half of a diptych.

Ripples

Fri, 4 Dec 2009 11:37:54 -0700

I am still tweaking the bits of blue in this, so that they will show up a bit better than they do now. This is one image from a triptych I am working on, from a photo of ripples and reflections in a pond. This third of the triptych is turning into a study of lights and darks. I love the vertical rippling lines that wave through this image.

Hoover Dam Rust (1)

Thu, 8 Oct 2009 15:52:21 -0600

On a recent road trip with some friends to a Photoshop World Conference in Las Vegas, NV, we stopped at the Hoover Dam. If you have not been, I recommend it highly. It is an astonishing and mesmerizing site! A new highway is under construction near the dam--in the background in the photo to the right. The construction is fascinating to see, though I’m not sure I’d ever be able to drive across that bridge, once it is finished (this tiny photo does not capture how HIGH that highway is!).

Naturally, I found some rust to photograph while there. The image above is the Photoshopped result of one of those photos. I am not sure I am quite finished with this image. I would like to cool it down just a tiny bit, without losing the mix of vibrant colors.

Coyote Fence (2)

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 15:24:52 -0600

Here is a bit of the coyote fence that encloses my back yard. This turned in to an exercise I had not expected: It was a challenge to push some contrast into the image, which, for some reason, seemed to have a mind of its own and wanted to resist my efforts to highlight some lights and darks.

Suwannee River Rust - Hinges

Fri, 4 Sep 2009 15:24:23 -0600

At the rate I am going, I will be working on images from my Suwannee River Bridge shoot for another decade. Here is another one: I have not posted them all, but this one makes more than a dozen different images I have created in the series so far. In this one I used many, many more layers in Photoshop than I usually do. I broke out and then replicated bits of the bridge in a new way. Then I created many layers as I tweaked bits of rust here and there in an effort to soften a few of the many hard edges in the image as it was originally constructed.

Dappled

Thu, 3 Sep 2009 07:45:02 -0600

I spent a lot of time on this image trying to balance warm and cool tones and lights and darks.

Suwannee River Bridge Rust (6)

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 12:25:50 -0600

I’m still working on the series of images from the photos I took in March of an old suspension bridge that used to span the Suwannee River in Florida. I am finding out that there are lots of us who love rust!

Cyan Shards

Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:16:52 -0600

I am posting a picture of rust that is NOT part of the Suwannee River Bridge rust series. This is an image done from a reference photo of rusty scars on the back of a truck I spotted here in Santa Fe. I manipulated the color using the curves settings and the hue and saturation settings. Here is the original reference photo ...

Suwannee River Bridge Rust (2 L&R)

Sun, 12 Apr 2009 20:05:43 -0600

Here’s some more rust.

As I mentioned in my April 4 blog, I took several dozen close-up photos of rust on an old suspension bridge that once spanned the Suwannee River (but which now has been relocated to a park adjoining the river). This diptych cones from one of those close-ups. You can see a photo of the entire bridge here: http://www.munsonstudios.com/Munson_Studios/Blog/Entries/2009/4/4_Suwannee_River_Rust.html.

I will post some rust images derived from other source material here soon.

Ranchos de Taos (Gold)

Fri, 10 Apr 2009 10:34:35 -0600

It is obligatory (well, *almost* obligatory) for New Mexico artists to do some version of this building. This image, in this Photoshopped iteration, is a HUGE improvement on the fairly drab original photo from which it was created. The purple/blue flare just to the upper left of the center of the image, is actual lens flare that shows up in the original image. The rest of the flare spots were added in Photoshop. I also manipulated the original color and removed some power lines from the background. I entered this image and the Suwannee River Rust image discussed on April 4 in a local show--the first public exhibition of any of my Photoshopped art photos.