The Sun – One Word Photo Challenge – April 29, 2015

majestic farewell
her languorous shivers speak
majestic farewell

© G.s.k. ‘15

This post is linked to One Word Photo Challenge – Sun

Wordless Wedneday – B&W (almost) – April 29, 2015

Please feel free to link up! Bastet.

Silent Sunday – Shashin no uta 写真 の 歌 – April 26, 2015

One Word Challenge – Rain – April 24, 2015

 

 

silently
like a hundred years ago
the rain falls today

© G.s.k. ‘15

Linked to: One Word Challenge – Rain

Wordless Wednesday – Monochrome – April 22, 2015

Monday Monochrome – haiga – April 20, 2015

closing my eyes
the storm remains
in perfect grey

© G.s.k. ‘15

Linked to One Word Challenge – Eigengrau, which I discovered  means:

Who would have thought!

Silent Sunday – Black and White – April 19, 2015

The Edit – One Word Photo Challenge – April 10, 2015

This is this week’s black and white Wordless Wednesday:

It’s a large iron and glass affair that I saw in front of a restaurant in Murano – the canal is seen in the reflection … inside a dinner table waits for a client.

One of my readers asked me to do a walk through with the editing.

I used Picasa 3 but most of the apps in Picasa 3 can be found on just about any editing program.

Here is the original:

After fixing the colour adding some highlights/fill lights to bring out the lantern –  I then decided to crop and straighten it:

I then added a little shadowing and ‘warmified’ it – in other words added flesh tones, which brought the lantern out nicely … but I wasn’t pleased with the general colouring so I saturated and contrasted a bit:

At this point – the colours were emphasized enough to try to go black and white – so I used the filtered black and white app filtering out some of the red – added a drop shadow frame and signed the finished work!

Here’s the same photo after using a mock HDR app and adding a pinkish tint to the b&w photo:

And with this last edit, I’m linking the post to One Word Photo Challenge for this week’s colour – copper

One Four Photo Challenge – April Review – April 10, 2015

Here’s a round-up of the best of the One Four Challenges presented in this blog since November:

Voted as the best edit for November

 

Voted as the best edit of December

 

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January edits 3 and 4 tied in the vote for the best edit of the month!

 

Week Two was the most voted for the February Edit

 

Week Two was the most voted for the March edit.

 

Thanks for popping by … and see you next month for the May edition of One Four Photo Challenge!

Wordless Wednesday – (Black and White) – April 8, 2015