This page shows some images that have been edited using "FastStone" software to reinterpret composition, colours and textures of original portfolio images.
It may reasonably be argued that this is moving away from the pure art of the photographic image to a different art form facilitated by advances in technology.
I was motivated to try this as a result of some images shown at a recent photographic group meeting.
Exploring different post production methods is another step along the pathway of developing an artistic style?
Please feel free to comment.
Painterly "Skyline"
Focus on shape, form and colour rather than detail?
"Exmoor Tree"
Minamalistic detail?
"Marsh tree"
Image broken down into five component parts -sky-hills-fence-tree-grass?
"Strolling"
Two strangers in context?
"Canadian Barn"
Blue caste emphasising tones and texture?
"Boats in Minehead harbour 1"
Emphasis on water textures and leading line of mooring rope?
"Boats in Minehead harbour 2"
Focuses the eye on the essential elements?
"Butlins Minehead"
Emphasises detail and form?
"The night garden"
Retrieve's an acceptable image from a blurred original?
"Sunset"
Reduced detail focuses on the play of light?
"Packhorse bridge Dunster"
Reduced detail focuses on the place of the bridge in the landscape?
"The ring"
Less is more?
"Minehead seaside grasses"
Attractive stem detail and sky swirls?
"Porlock Weir"
"Woods West of Selworthy"
The echoes of nudity in a woodland scene?
"The old tree"
Light shining through the centre and detail in the branches and surrounding growth.
"Winsford Hill"
This version emphasises the leading lines of the fence and the muddy track leading to the central puddle and brings our the detail in the tree trunk and branches?
Do these remind you of PRE-RAPHAELITE ETCHINGs ?
"Withypool Church"
Leading lines of path and railings focusing on open church door.
"Welsh Folly"
Detailed foreground contrasts with middle ground and main subject - less is more?
"Vicarage road barn"
"Fungi"
Natures change and decay.
"Beach sunset Western Australia"
Works in progress
(Trying to find how to add additional colours to the images below:)
"Textures over Dunkery"
"Dunkerys Blue mood"
A threatening figure in the clouds overlooking a group of moorside fields.