Monday, October 14, 2013

Texture Tuesday on a Monday

It's been a while since I joined Kim Klassen at Texture Tuesday. I'm having a bit of a hard time keeping up with blogging at the moment - I really hope that will change very soon again!

Here's my contribution - another image from the National Heirloom Expo, "The Blue Jar".


The original photo really wasn't anything to rave about - too dark. But I liked the simplicity of it and that's why I chose it.

Here's the recipe:
- after a levels adjustment, I blended the image with Kim's texture "kk_appreciate" in linear burn at 50%; brushed away the texture from the blue jar
- copied it and blended in soft light at 100%; brushed away the texture form the jar
- added Kim's texture "chamomile", soft light at 75%
- after a hue/saturation adjustment I added a photo of mine and blended it in soft light at 60%, again brushing it away from the jar. The photo is a close up of the seeds in the head of a sunflower and you can see them mainly in the right half of the image.

To see more spectacular photos hop over to Kim's Texture Tuesday.

18 comments:

KB said...

What is truly beautiful. It's a wonderful choice. But I must admit that you have photo editing abilities that I can only dream of. But, seeing your end result, it might be time that I try to learn!

elizabeth said...

What a beauty this photo is now!!!

Elephant's Child said...

Oh wow. I have so much to learn - and thank you for showing me more to intrigue and tempt me.

Our photos said...

The photo is beautiful.
Have a nice day! RW & SK

Nina said...

Such a beautiful texture - and creative - using sunflower seeds, Carole! Thank you for the editing tutorial - I am often so curious about how these artful photos are being created.

Becs said...

Love this image. Beautiful in it's simplicity and I love the contrast of the blue jar and the corn. Great texture work and photo blending.

Seraphinas Phantasie said...

Hallo Carola,
das ist ein wunderschönes Herbstfoto, welches durch die Textur dazu gewinnt.
Viele Grüße Synnöve

Anonymous said...

This is a beautiful photo and texture!

Unknown said...

I love the composition, and texture work. I love wheat and blue jars too...

Deanna said...

I love anything in a blue jar...this is outstanding!!

La Vie Quotidienne said...

I always love to see what you do with textures ~ this is lovely.

Anonymous said...

This is a beautiful texture work !!

Kim Stevens said...

I love this simplicity of this too...and what's not to love about a blue mason jar! :)

Rosie Grey said...

I love the simplicity of this shot - wonderful composition and tones!

Cindy said...

so perfect for fall! Love the mason jar with the wheat...and that sunflower photo gives such a wonderful earthy texture to the entire processing...
Blessings!

EarlK said...

Absolutely beautiful. Wonderful.

Magic Love Crow said...

This is amazing! Truly beautiful!

Prairie Jill said...

Beautiful piece! I love the simplicity. The effects of the texture and your sunflower photo are perfect!