Last Night At the Beach

Several people out enjoying the evening.

 

Heavy surf.

 

I played with all these photos in Photoshop.

 

I think this is my favorite of the evening.

 

Drama!

 

Goodnight.

 

The Color Orange

The challenge this week for Collage Obsession is using the color orange.  This is a digital collage, and I created it using parts of the following photos. 

Day Lily

Jellyfish, North Carolin Aquarium

Sunset, Atlantic Beach, North Carolina

Me, St. Maarten, circa 1980

This was fun to do.  Hope you enjoy it!

Gulls At Sunset

Gulls, Sunset, and Gulls at Sunset were all taken on the same trip to the beach.

Sunset

Sunset

Somewhere along the Portuguese coast - taken from the deck of Tropic Moon.

Strange Sunsets

I call them "strange" sunsets because of what I did to them in Photoshop. These are "after" and "before" pictures, and all were taken in Greece. The first one is at the island of Simi.

Original

This harbor in Rhodes, where we were moored.

Original

At the island of Paros.

Original

Chania, on the island of Crete. Guess I was getting tired of sunsets at this point because I went a little extreme in Photoshop....

Original. Again, these are from slides taken in 1987-1988. Earlier post with pictures from the Greek islands: here.

A Most Useful Sunset

If you read yesterday's post, Changing the Background, you'll know that I'm playing with a Photoshop technique called "multiply." I've continued to play. I paired the above sunset photo with several of my other photos and got some pretty interesting images. The results aren't just from the "multiply" button - I pulled in some other techniques as well, but the one thing they have in common is that I used the sunset photo in all of them.

I took this photograph on the golf course behind our home. The water was perfectly still.

I used the sky part of the sunset to produce this image. I also made a second copy of the sky and flipped it upside down to use for the reflection of the clouds in the water. I tell you, you can fake almost anything!

A shot of my favorite pier at our local beach.

Again I used just the sunset sky to color this image.

A dock I photographed on one of my walks.

This time I made use of the water as well as the sky. Looks like a storm is brewing!

This is my paternal grandmother, Rosilia, at the age of 15. I'm working on a composite that uses her image, so I had already "isolated" it from the background. She'll be in a cemetery and I plan to call it "Grandmother's Ghost." Since that project is still in progress, I decided to give her some time-off and take her for a visit to the beach.

It was a lovely day and she enjoyed herself!

Misty Haze

When I went to the beach on New Year's Eve, I was too early for the sunset. I headed down the beach for a walk and in the far distance I saw what looked like fog. It wasn't the kind of day for fog, so I figured that it was some kind of haze. I hadn't seen anything that looked quite like it before. During my walk, I'd stop and take pictures, sometimes using the "zoom" on my camera. When I got home and worked on the photos in Photoshop, I got some really interesting effects.


Using "auto-levels" on the first picture, I came out with this blue version.


Using the first picture again, I clicked on the "equalize" function and got this neat picture.


Here's another of the original photos - I'm getting closer to the buildings in the distance.

Auto-levels gave me this version.

And "equalize" produced this golden image.

I didn't walk this far, so I must have zoomed in for this photo.

Auto-levels.

And "equalize." This one makes me think I'm in the Sahara rather than at the beach!

One last image. I wasn't the only one out for a walk on this beautiful day! When the sun was setting, I took the photos that I posted a couple days ago in 2009's Last Sunset. I really couldn't have asked for a nicer ending to the year.