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.