Week 32 August 2013

Yet again I’m behind with the blog this time I was away for a few days in the Yorkshire Dales and returned to the source of this weeks image.

This image was an interesting “still life” arrangement in the back bar of the Richard iii pub in Middleham. The original shots were taken when I was there in May but worked on for week 32. There are a few pictures from that trip in my other blog http://dwarfe.blogspot.co.uk/ anyway back to :-

The Window Sill

Originally 3 shots stitched together a curves adjustment some dodging and burning and some colour tweaking and some texture added.

Week 31 August 2013

Much to my shame I have neglected my bike, so to rectify this I went for a short ride taking my camera.

On one of my stops I saw this Butterfly on this flower.

  Think this is a Peacock Butterfly.

Week 30 August 2013

Still experimenting with the iphone camera and edits on the Ipad

Went for a day out on the Embsy to Bolton Abbey railway image taken with ClassicPAN with vignetting and FrameRocket effect turned on. Then edited with Tiltshift app to selectively blur it.

Week 29 July 2013

I’m still running a week late with my blogs.

This weeks image was taken at Ripley Castle in North Yorkshire.

week 28 July 2013

This week I’m very late posting this blog so will be 2 posts close together. Another photo taken on my phone and edited on ipad. Taken with ClassicPAN edited with Photoforge and InstaGrungFx

week 27 July 2013

Saw a yellow field of Rapeseed that had lots of poppies and daisies around the edges. It was a couple of days before I could get to take some photo’s by this time a lot of the yellow flowers had dropped around were the poppies and daisies were. Took some shots I was quiet please with but as an after thought I took a few with my phone using the Hipstamatic app using the JOHN S lens and Ina’s 69 film. So this week my image is one of the phone ones.

Week 26 July 2013

Its beginning to look like I have given up on Photography but that is far from the case, just haven’t had the opportunity recently to capture anything I like. Have taken lots of snapshots of my grandchildren and the usual daily stuff.  But I have, as shown in other bits of this blog, started to draw on the iPad. When my Grand children we a little younger a series of photos was take by their father on his phone. In these photos they looked like they were been attacked and then defeated their Gruffello toys. So I had the idea of changing them into a mini comic book. So asked if I could use the photos as reference. At first I used a method I had used before in Photoshop but wasn’t too happy with results and decided to draw by hand but was taking too long in PS as didn't get enough time sat on my Lappy, So was put on a back burner.

Here is where the IPad comes in. First I used “Brushes” and made a rough colour sketch. Then opened the sketch in “InkPad” and inked in the outlines and blocked in the colours. I then put into an app called “halftone” and put in the dots. Opened in “Sketchbook Pro “ both the inkpad drawing and the halftone version and erased some of the halftone. This is the first frame and I have decided to miss out the speech bubbles and Pows ad biffs until I join all the frames as one piece. Have quiet decide how that will work yet might have to finish in PS or perhaps InkPad again. Then I’m going over lay some texture to make the pages look papery.

This is the first frame.

Week 25 June 2013

This weeks image is some luggage that was on the platform of Embsey Station near Skipton. Had gone out that way on a day trip only to find no trains run on a Monday untill August, the place seemed deserted and we were able to have a look around the platform. Fully intend to go back in August and have a ride on the train.

Week 24 June 2013

Yet again this week I have struggled for an image. Was only out on Monday at my daughters took a lot of snaps of the twins dressed as fairies but that's all they are snaps. This week I didn't do any drawing either too much other stuff going on. I decided on posting my favourite snap of the day but then it was of just one twin and didn’t want to leave the other out so again there are 2 shots.

The colour cast was because she was in a tunnel under a side.

to balance everything a shot of them both, its not everyone that has fairies at the bottom of their garden.

week 24 June 2013

Had a brief visit to Knaresborough this week mainly to get a Pub lunch. Before lunch I managed a quick walk up to the castle yard.

This weeks image is a window in the castle the shot it’s self is not remarkable its not even that well shot. So why post it here? Well about 5 years ago I had a Kodak bridge camera which I had with me on a visit to the castle with my daughter. At this point hadn’t got back into photography took camera to take the usual snaps. We went on the guided tour of the castle. Just inside the castle you can see this window from the inside. At that time the outside of the window was covered with ivy and I was taken with the sun shining in through the window and the ivy. The resulting photo again not the best but it spurred me on the learn more about photography and eventually to buy a DSLR camera.

Week 23 June 2013

Again I have been playing with the “inkpad” app for ipad. I’m enjoying learning how to use this and discovered I could import a photo to overlay as a texture. The Ipad is an incredible tool, been looking on line at some ipad artists. One of these being…Ron Letkeman

http://www.flickr.com/photos/14225021@N00/ this guys drawings are outstanding.

Have also started to experiment using a few different apps in one drawing. This weeks image is one of the ipad images I have been working on. Don't know why I started to draw a vampire. I started of in “Art Studio” and made a basic sketch then carried on in “inkpad” where I blocked in colours and did the inking also tried some shading using gradients. Then I imported a texture and added that. Afterwards took the whole image and ran through an app called “vintage”

The “finished” image but without the vintage effect.

image before the texture layer

Image after running through “Vintage”

Week 22 May 2013

Another shot from my Dales trip taken last Monday at Middleham Castle. We have had a long cold winter and it seemed to be ages until any colour was around again. Flowers have at last begun to appear everywhere. There were lots of fields full of buttercups and other wild flowers everywhere but it was the one growing in the castle walls attracted me the most.

Week 21 May 2013

I’m late posting this weeks blog as I have been away for a few days with very “ify” internet connection.
This image was taken on an old Olympus point and shoot this has been adapted to take infrared photos. I was up in the Yorkshire Dales at one of my favourite spots. Cauldron force at West Burton. Last week I had reworked an old shot of these falls to replace my first idea for trying the infrared camera. Had the camera in my bag at weekend and realised this could be a good spot to try this especially as I now have the means to get images of the camera.

Week 20 May 2013

This Week has been spent still playing with progs on Ipad. Did some more frogs using ipad and Artstudio. Have also been playing with photos re edited on the Ipad. So far not go very deep into it yet but there is lots of potential. Had original planned to post an infrared shot taken on an old Olympus point and shoot camera which has been converted of infrared took a few shots but so far not been able to look at them haven’t got a card reader that takes the memory card thats in it and I also haven’t got a cable for camera. So until such time as a cable arrives I will have to post an Ipad photo.

This is West Burton the waterfall there. Took the original a couple of years ago and used to play with. Used curves in one prog and then a filter in another to give a lomo effect then added a texture layer in Artstudio.

The original

 

   on with lomo and texture.

 

Just started playing with them, I like the original best still though.

Week 19 May 2013

This week again not taken many photo’s so this weeks image is one of my first efforts using a vector drawing app on my Ipad called ink pad. Although it doesn’t look much but has been a steep learning curve. Hadn’t done any drawing for years and it was the main reason I got a tablet to perhaps start again. This drawing was from photo of frog and went from there. Not an original concept I know but served its purpose of getting to know the app better.

that was first attempt but composition not right so I cropped in PS

this is what I finnished with

Week 18 may 2013

Wasn’t able to go far this week so this weeks offering is a tulip in the garden. At last the snow has gone and a bit of colour has arrived with the sun.

Week 17 April 2013

What better way to pass St George’s day evening than watching Morris dancers out side a pub?

This is Wharfedale Wayzgoose who were dancing with Briggate Morris.

week 16 April 2013

This week had a trip out to Jervaulx abbey and then ended up in a sweet shop in Masham yum!

Week 15 April 2013

This weeks image is not a photo I took this week but I composite I have been working on.
In the cause of trying to improve my Photoshop skills I have been reading allsorts of books one of which suggested making a tree house. This was about 18 months ago and the idea has been on the back burner ever since. There is one rule I set myself with any composites I have done is that it all has to be my own work as far as possible, as in all elements have to be from my own stock photo’s. Sometimes its not possible. For instance I did one that needed a human skull but I don’t happen to have one handy, For that picture and other I used free stock images from a photo magazine. For this reason this project has taken a while. At first looking for a suitable tree, and then windows and doors and other bits and pieces. That's why I can sometimes be found shooting strange objects, you never know when they will come in. Then looking at other peoples images I stole the idea of a story coming out of a book. This changed the idea totally. so its always a work in progress. Its still not finished as some cleaning up is needed and I feel as if I lost the plot some what. Perhaps I’ll rework this but more likely will start it again.

Week 14 April

Spring is supposed to be here. Weather has improved although until the weekend it had been colder than normal. Spent a few days in the Yorkshire Dales still a lot of snow on the tops. roads clear though. This weeks image isn’t the weather but sheep.

rest of photos will be in other blog and Facebook when I have sorted them.