{"id":655,"date":"2008-04-03T23:19:55","date_gmt":"2008-04-04T06:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/x.jimanddoni.com\/?p=655"},"modified":"2008-04-03T23:26:46","modified_gmt":"2008-04-04T06:26:46","slug":"painting-with-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/?p=655","title":{"rendered":"Painting with Light"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jim bought me Photoshop CS3 for my birthday (I had PS 7) and I LOVE it. I have been playing around with actions and trying to create and save some of my own unique actions. The more I do picture editing, I am realizing that my love of fantasy extends to photographs. I love an ethereal beauty…for things to look surreal. I know that many photo enthusiasts criticize artistry that goes beyond the natural but for me, that IS the artistry. It is an artists fingerprints on natural beauty – enhancing it to their taste and style. I am also inspired by those who paint with light (Kincaide being the most notorious). I have seen some digital artists that are incredible with enhancing photos with light and a surreal quality and I aspire to work towards producing end products that are even a tiny fraction of what they can do. <\/p>\n

Today while Tori napped I played with a picture that I took in November while we were in Cottonwood, AZ fishing. It’s a long way from my goal but forward movement.<\/p>\n

The original picture is above.<\/p>\n

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This is a heavily saturated picture and I intended it to be that way because I wanted it to look on the “unreal” side. More like a painting than a picture. I wanted it to have dramatic light, have some color pops, and have an ethereal beauty. I like the color pop on Zandi but I over burned the background. I like the deep contrast but the color could use some work. Overall though, I liked the direction of it. Fits me. Bold, colorful and a bit over the top LOL. Fits my mood. Maybe I really am an artist at heart LOL – who knew? \ud83d\ude42 (Of course REAL artists would probably say I just ruined this picture but I LIKE over the top) :).
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This time I took the deeply saturated picture, desaturated it and then added a gradient map. I didn’t want it to be a simple black and white – I wanted to keep the ethereal quality.<\/p>\n

Did you ever see the movie “What Dreams May Come” with Robin Williams? Very sad movie and also crazy theologically BUT the color saturations were awesome! I could watch this movie over and over just to study the use of color and the dreamy effects. Apparently the producer of this movie thinks like I do because I bet heaven is deeply saturated. I bet it has colors we haven’t even thought of yet. I think my love of supernatural beauty is simply a foreshadowing of what God is preparing. He put a little desire for it in my heart just so I would be excited. He thinks like that – I know it. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jim bought me Photoshop CS3 for my birthday (I had PS 7) and I LOVE it. I have been playing around with actions and trying to create and save some of my own unique actions. The more I do picture editing, I am realizing that my love of fantasy extends to photographs. I love an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mamas-diaries"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimanddoni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}