More digital fun

Darwin Wiggett also has instructions for digital mirrored/flipped images done digitally. The site for this is http://www.naturephotographers.net/articles1204/dw1204-1.html . His personal website is www.darwinwiggett.com ; he is associated with PhotoLife magazine and has a number of articles linked from his website.

I have done very shooting of interest in the past few months--I think I'll dig out some more from the summer and "play" with those, perhaps using these instructions.
I'd love to see some more from others!

reference for "Orton" dreamscape instructions

Here is the link for the Orton instructions.
http://www.naturephotographers.net/articles0106/dw0106-1.html

Have fun!

summer dreamscapes

I found instructions on how to do digital "Ortons" or, to use Andre's term, Dreamscapes. The fence was shot on a trip to Crater Lake in Oregon. We ended up on some dirt (not even gravel) roads by navigating with the gps. The others were taken in the interior of BC this fall, in the Merritt area where, again thanks to the gps, we ended up on range roads that were little more than tracks. I haven't shot anything decent for ages so I've had to go back to some images from the summer.
Here are the instructions.
I don't have the exact website, so I'll post it tomorrow.
Text and photography copyright Darwin Wiggett. All rights reserved.
Open any image you wish to try the technique on. Make a duplicate of the image (Image>Duplicate). Close the original image. Lighten the image as follows: Image>Apply Image… then in the dialog box that comes up change the bending mode to “Screen” and the Opacity to 100%. This will give you an appropriately overexposed image. Duplicate this overexposed image (Image>Duplicate). Blur this second image (Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur… and in the dialog box use a Radius setting of 15 to 50 pixels – the higher the pixel setting the blurrier the photo and the more ‘painterly’ the image… but you can go too far!). Experiment with different settings, for my tastes and for the size of my digital files (50-100 megabytes) a radius of about 25 pixels works perfect. Now select the move tool from the Photoshop tool bar (or just press “v” on your keyboard for quicker access to the move tool). Hold down the “shift” key and use your mouse to drag and drop the blurry image onto the sharp one (don’t let go of the shift key until after you release the mouse button or the images won’t be in perfect alignment). Bring up the layers palette in Photoshop (F7 is the keyboard shortcut). Under the word “Layers” in the layers palette will be a menu box of blending modes. Change the blending mode from “normal” to “multiply”.
Now “flatten’ the two layers by \npressing “CTRL+E” or by clicking on the sideways triangle in the layers palette \nto select ‘flatten image’. There, you now have an Orton image -

I've been teaching grammar far too long! By the time I 'decoded' this sign, I was standing in the middle of the intersection. Best to all - bye for now!