Sharing Outcomes - Flowers

dinasset · **Posted:** Fri Sep 12, 2014 12:10 pm **(#101)**

a new experiment (darkening and saturating colours)

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Issabella · **Posted:** Sat Sep 13, 2014 11:09 am **(#102)**

I like your last outcome Dinasset, In my opinion it has strength. :bigthup

dinasset · **Posted:** Fri Jan 16, 2015 9:07 am **(#103)**

Stimulated by SallyAnne's challenge on creating a "painting look" of a photo (challenge to which many -me too- partecipated), I like to spend some time in doing that on some photos of various types.
Let's start with flowers.

original

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"paint-look"
because during my tests - varying some steps or parameters - I came out with mainly two different "nuances", I called them "acrylic" and "aquarel"
in both cases they simulate "painting on paper"

acrylic

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aquarel

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nothing brilliant, maybe (I hope) contributors to SallyAnne's challenge will also contribute here....

Marcello · **Joined:** Mar 10, 2014 **Posts:** 845

who want to play with my iris pictures?

merrak · **Posted:** Sun May 10, 2015 11:35 pm **(#105)**

dinasset wrote:

a new experiment (darkening and saturating colours)

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I really like how that came out... may need to play with that trick myself...

oldmangrumpy · **Posted:** Mon May 11, 2015 1:59 am **(#106)**

@Dinasset & Issabella - quality outcomes, I especially like the darkening/saturatiing colours approach.

@Marcello - I recently put all our potted irises out of action because when our friend originally provided the rhizomes, she said they were all different colours. When they flowered we got 11 yellow and 1 purple.! I wmight have a play with yours if that's OK.

molly · **Joined:** Apr 07, 2010 **Posts:** 14182

Those Iris's are beautiful Marcello.

dinasset · **Posted:** Mon May 11, 2015 6:50 am **(#108)**

Marcello wrote:

who want to play with my iris pictures?

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Marcello, your photos are so nice that any manipulation is at a risk of ruining them.
Nevertheless I did my tries:
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altered also in the colour, thus a new "variance" of the flower

2-

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a more "delicate" manipulation

Marcello · **Joined:** Mar 10, 2014 **Posts:** 845

oldmangrumpy wrote:

@Marcello - I recently put all our potted irises out of action because when our friend originally provided the rhizomes, she said they were all different colours. When they flowered we got 11 yellow and 1 purple.! I wmight have a play with yours if that's OK.

I would like to see your plays!

Marcello · **Joined:** Mar 10, 2014 **Posts:** 845

molly wrote:

Those Iris's are beautiful Marcello.

Thank you Molly!

Marcello · **Joined:** Mar 10, 2014 **Posts:** 845

dinasset wrote:

Marcello, your photos are so nice that any manipulation is at a risk of ruining them.
Nevertheless I did my tries:
1-altered also in the colour, thus a new "variance" of the flower

2-a more "delicate" manipulation

Dinasset; you are a master in "fotoritocco" I like your results!

Issabella · **Posted:** Mon May 11, 2015 10:14 am **(#112)**

Marcello, your photos are beautiful, and I agree with you about Dinasset as a master in getting the best of a photo.

I only tried to improve the appearance of detail.

AnMal · **Posted:** Mon May 11, 2015 2:56 pm **(#113)**

issabella: the details really come out in your version, well done!

Issabella · **Posted:** Mon May 11, 2015 3:01 pm **(#114)**

Thank you AnMal. I really appreciate your words as I am not an expert in photography, but I'm learning little by little. :tyspin

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12775

The cactus flowers are beginning to bloom again.

lylejk · **Joined:** Sep 24, 2010 **Posts:** 12775

And because I just can't help myself. lolol

oldmangrumpy · **Posted:** Mon May 11, 2015 6:40 pm **(#117)**

Well Marcello I spent some time with your photos, targetted the colour and tried to emphasise it ...

... not sure if I succeeded.

Marcello · **Joined:** Mar 10, 2014 **Posts:** 845

Issabella wrote:

I only tried to improve the appearance of detail.

..and you succeeded...seems like silk!

Marcello · **Joined:** Mar 10, 2014 **Posts:** 845

oldmangrumpy wrote:

Well Marcello I spent some time with your photos, targetted the colour and tried to emphasise it ...
... not sure if I succeeded.

your inventive is extraordinary! maybe we have to call the first iris Ghandi and the second DalayLama!

Matera · **Joined:** Oct 06, 2013 **Posts:** 143

Irises are so much fun to GIMP around! I love that pale pink variation. It's...ethereal.

Today, I turned one of my iris photos into an antique illustration:

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This is greatly reduced from the original.

Hmm...I think I should add a few stains and a darkened edge to the old "paper"