Everyone's painting!

[Athena]

So I thought I'd throw in my first try too. I think I am going to buy the DVDs when I am in the states next month. I want to know the little secrets to make it better. ;)

before:

http://lifeprintsphotography.com/POTN/MorningStretch.jpg

after:

http://lifeprintsphotography.com/POTN/MorningStretchPainted.jpg

[rab3rd]

Looks good

[Extirpate]

looks awesome to me. I need to learn how to do this, i'm very impressed with the results!

[Photodawg1]

Athena...I can't open them :(

[Athena]

I can't see them today either! I better go check my website...

edit: my site isn't down, but all my direct links have stopped working. :( I hope it's temporary - I'm not good with such things.

[Scarlett Nic]

I see them Athena.. they are both gorgeous well done!.. love the colours in these.

Nic

[Athena]

Thanks Nic. :D
I'm super glad you can see them - oddly *I* can not see or open the files from my online directory. What do you suppose is going on?

edit: very interesting. After posting this I refreshed the page and now they are there. Temporary glitch in the system I guess. :)

[Photodawg1]

I see 'em now! Holy Cow...gorgeous!

[EOSAddict]

Really can't decide which I like more! Both are stunning. The paint effect is quite sublte and seems to work really well with the subject.

[Yiskah]

Beautiful.

[TSEE]

Very nice. So what's this paint effect everyone is working with?

[airfrogusmc]

WOW again. Don't we need orange over it the color contest:) :)
Have you ever seen any of Imogen Cunninghams work? Just mentioning not for you to shoot like that or that you've copied her (because your work is very different) but I feel some of the passion in your execution. GREAT STUFF!!!

[ValB]

Wow, what did you use to do that?

[rammy]

Very smooth Athena. Like it.

I put a smudge painting tutorial together in the Processing Forum and I would really appreciate your comments and any further advice or adjustments in the thread:

http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=337929

[Athena]

To be honest I haven't read any tutorials. I just picked up in a different thread here (http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=260882)that people are using the smudge tool to paint over photos and decided to give it a try myself.

Now that I've done a couple I am very interested to learn how to do it properly! Brad has a set of tutorials (http://www.mmkgraphics.com/tutorials/virtualpaint.html)for sale on his site (one for oils, one for pastels) that I am going to buy when I am in the states next month.

Rammy - I'll head over and check out your tutorial too. Thanks for that!

[Dorman]

Athena - Firstly, both images are stunning, the painting effect is very subtle and the flower is already such a soft subject, you lit these very well, and so sharp! Secondly, I'm always blown away by your work, can you do no wrong? :) Thanks for sharing.

[Athena]

Brad - you've made my day. ;) Thank you.