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February
Title: Pooh Bear Twins – a study in texture
This started out by photographing the two bears on a table top with one light. The bears sat on a yellow piece of lace over a white fabric. I used an action for making sketches from an image, called Sheri’s sketch. The one I selected to keep had the little dots in it that made a nice texture.
Once this was applied to the lace, the lace became too busy & dirty looking, so I painted it over with a cream color. Then I used the smudge tool to remove the lace pattern from the fabric under the bears. This kept the shadows which hopefully now look like a soft blanket. Then I used a slightly darker paint to bush on the blanket to give it more color. Next, I selected the cream background and added a texture from “Cybia’s screen works” plug-in. The patterns from this plug-in are quite dark, so I reduced the opacity to tone down the effect. With the background still elected I brushed on a little shadow behind the two bears. I think the sketch’s addition of the fine dots gave a different kind of texture to the fur on the bears that is interesting for the flat sketch appearance.
| Maria Korab-Laskowska |
This is correctly lid table top setup. Good texture and cute models.
Not sure about blanket (those spots) but I like that you use variations of one color for blanket and background.
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| Tom Icklan |
The bears are wonderful. Your work with texture is successful and not overdone.
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| Fred Kuhns |
First, thank you for brining a smile to my face … this is a very cure, happy image. I honestly don’t follow all of your steps but I think the overall effect is very nice. I like that you tried to bring texture to the blanket but I find the dark spots a bit distracting. |
| Annette Chiu |
Your treatment to the background gives a perfect setting. Winnie
the Pooh look great together . Lovely presentation . |
| Kieu-Hanh Vu |
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| Linda Phelps (postcomment space) |
I am sorry that all the work I did on this image did not show on this version. It is subtle in the original. It just does not show up in the jpeg. Next month’s submission is much better.
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| Rawligh Sybrant |
The bears and tabletop look good, but slightly too bright. The white background seems excessively bright to me, and I think it would be better darkened. A great fun image!
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Linda Phelps
biography
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In my 30's I had catastrophic experience by coming down with Fibromyalgia.This was long before the research got started. Once I got some meds that helped cut down the intense pain I started getting interested with photography in 1999.We bought my first digital camera, an Olympus. Photography gave me the desire to push myself until I got lot stronger. I am now using a Canon 10D with canon L glass. I like competitions and have won prizes and acceptances in Salon competition.I have sold some my work in an art gallery. My photos have been published in photo books, photo magazines and the newspaper.
Photography has become a passion with me! I love to learn new ways to improve my images. I belong to few groups to help me do that. Now I have the opportunity to learn more with PSA!
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