Nancy and I are back again with a Team-Up Thursday diptych. This week’s theme was yellow, and we both went for flowers. Neither of us took them outside in Rochester, though, as it was still snowing here this morning. We’ve gotten lots of rain and several days of snow showers recently. Fortunately, not enough to cover the ground, but still . . . it’s April!!! Mine (on the left) was taken at the Highland Park Conservatory and Nancy was lucky enough to visit Longwood Gardens outside of Philadelphia on her recent trip.
I’m playing along with Kim Klassen’s texture link-up again this week. Playing with textures always seems to end up low on the list of thing to do, so this is a good incentive.
I actually used the recipe Kim listed on her blog last week for this: Silence/Soft Light at 100% opacity, SweeTreat/Soft Light at 100% opacity, and a very slight adjustment to the midtones in Levels. Here’s the original. The texture seems to do more to the saturation of the image than anything else. Just a softer look.
funny thing about textures – I like them when used to create an “artsy” image… but not sure about just changing the color/focus of the image – I do most of that in PSE with my goal always being to get as true-to-life as possible. Which photo do you think is truer-to-life?
Truthfully, I’m with you. I prefer the original, but I do enjoy playing with them, and maybe I should have kept at it longer. The challenge was to use both textures so I kept it to that, but I didn’t try a lot of different blending modes which might have given it a different feel.
Gorgeous – all of them!
The weather certainly seems to be going mad….we have the other extreme to you…..we’ve got the type of weather we’re lucky if we get in August!!!!!
Lovely – I look at the textures as different outfits for different occasions. Loving the flowers!
I like both of the photos – the first does not look textured, and I mean that as a compliment!
I always thought that snow should be gone after Tax Day, even in upstate New York.
Rinda
I like both looks. I agree the texture gives it a softer look.
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