Rainy Morning Walk….

Here are a couple of pics I took this morning on a 

walk around my yard. 

Yes….I HAD to snazzy them up with a couple of apps.

I've become quite obsessed with apps….BIG bang for

little bucks!

Here's the raw shot of the succulent:

I used Oggl (Hipstamatic) to get the effect above.

I have Hipstamatic on my iPhone…it lets you shoot

using a combination of lens and old film types but

I like shooting raw and opening the image in Oggl 

to see which combos I like best.

And the chives:

I opened this image in Snapseed and converted it to

HDR then saved and opened in my new favorite…

Tinned Cam and added the light effect and color

change. Easy peasy!

A little snazzing up makes all the difference!

Seeing Double

Simple bicycle tire rim shot with Hipstamatic app using

Salvador 84 Lens and Blackeys Supergrain film. 

Double exposure…shadows….lines….

oh my….

That Beard….

I don't know what drew me first to this picture…the beard

or the eyes. I got it from the Swedish National Heritage Board

on Flickr. It was a black and white image.

I opened it first in Photoshop…converted it to an HDR image

and burned the eye area to make them even stronger. Next I 

opened it in Focal Lab and created the blur effect. After that

I opened it in Hipstamatic and applied a lens and film combination

that gave it the grain and color. Finally I opened it in Distressedfx

and converted it into an HDR photo again to get the strong visual.

Kind of a scary looking fellow…..