In the Dead, Boring Part of Night

I do not expect that anyone has seen what I made last night and added to my blog; mainly because for one I did not make a big post about it until now and for two I put it in a section that I am not forcing everyone to go over and look at all the time. Anyway, last night I was feeling rather bored and I wanted to take one of my photographs and transform it from a normal picture into something rather spectacular. I chose a photograph that I took within the last year while I was out walking, passing by a lake that was nearby my apartment. In the photograph there was a beautiful sun setting in the background, the colors a radiant red and orange across the lake. 

What I transformed the picture into was something much more than that, something with colors so uniquely different that it is hard to believe the original picture it came from. Out went the red, and with the swipe of a button everything was purple and blue. From there I focused on really adding in the space scene, adding astrological formations such as stars and the weird way colors seem to work as well with space pictures. And finally, I felt like topping the whole thing off with a planet to blend it all together. I just wish I could have added in a second planet in the upper left, one to balance out the first. The reason I did not add in that second planet was because I knew the only way it would look good was if it had a ring.

My Space and Mountains Photo Manipulation Picture

Now although the photograph looks spectacular, it is actually made up of fairly simple parts. With a bit of blending and a lot of previous knowledge of photoshop, I was able to quickly and efficiently take several different scenes from other photographs provided on google and morph them together. Sometimes I wish I would actually work to make my own backgrounds and work really hard to add in my own shooting stars, but it seems like a tedious task and the point of photoshop is to quickly take several pieces and blend them together or else make it all from scratch. Okay, I might have that idea wrong, but whatever. Anyway, staying up late has made yet another beautiful picture for my collection.

To Feel Inspired

I sat down and was watching some television when suddenly lightning struck me, an idea! I'm not sure exactly where it came from, but I just knew I had to use photoshop to make a specific picture. The challenge was that I knew it was going to take at least two other pictures plus some pieces I did not have. Still, when an idea rushes to me like that I try right away!

More Pictures!

So I started working on a whole new page of the blog, one that is specifically for all the pictures I've been taking this year. I have a feeling that I'm going to have too many next year and will have to make a brand new page, but until I run into that problem I'm going to use this page. So sorry if it takes a while to load, but it has just under seven months worth of photographs.

I'm probably going to go and do the same thing with artwork that I've worked on in the past year as well as youtube videos. I really like the idea of everything being in one place for the year, making it easy to find and view. If you have any comments to offer, then please tell me because I will take them into consideration.

Anyway, to reach the new page you can either click the tab at the top of the blog (which will remain there) or follow the following link:

[http://canvasspots.blogspot.com/p/spectacular-snapshots.html]

Mount Falcon Park

I actually took all of these pictures a couple of days ago when I was celebrating my family's belated Mother's Day for my Mom. My excuse is simple, we spent the day in the Celestial Seasonings factory, as seen in my other post, and then drove home. The clouds started thundering and a light rain came down, which stopped us again from taking the hike that my Mom had been wanting as her gift. Then it stopped, to which we got the idea to grab out gear and get our hiking as soon as possible. That's when I took these pictures, which was approximately seven at night. We got back when the sun was down, I needed to give them some quick touch-ups, and then I finally got around to posting them. So, there's my explanation of why this is late.

Instagram

My Newest Photograph (July 11th, 2012)

Along with reworking my blogging life, I've also been working on updating my instagram life. If you did not know me, I love instagram! I like the idea of sending small photos to one another where the individuals have put time and effort into picking the best of their photographs. And with my iPhones camera and some powerful apps, I have really branched out to trying to make some of the best photography I possibly can. The following is my blog update which will have a lot of photos but be a rather short read. Enjoy.

Instagram

A Short Blog

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