My GPS Camera Phone

I’m liking this game of stumping everyone with an abstract photo. It’s fun and also adds more validity to my argument that you don’t need expensive equipment to capture interesting photos.

Yesterday’s photo was tweaked in Photoshop CS2 to make it more interesting than a rough texture. The image is a limestone rock with a pine needle on it. Wow, I know. To make it give you vertigo, I added a radial blur filter to it, set at about 8 or 9 pixels. After that, I rendered some lighting effects to eliminate some of the hot spots around the edges and to add more depth. What you see is the result.

Come back next week for another abstraction and try identifying the subject. Anyone correctly guessing (or even close for that matter) will get a link in the next post. Leave your guess in the comments. Until next week!

Side note: I acknowledge that I do use Photoshop CS2, to which some may reply that it is expensive software, so what’s the difference? Yes, it is, but most of the things I do on this blog are easily reproduced in the GIMP (which is free).

Jeez, I get 60 RSS subscribers and it goes to my head. No posts in a week! Well, I can assure you that I’ve left Cloud 9 and have resumed the life of the mundane, as portrayed in this most plain shot of a sunset viewed from a strip mall parking lot.

Of course, I had to do something to liven it up. I mean, it’s a strip mall parking lot, come on. For now, I’ll give you the basics and then maybe make it a tutorial. Here goes:

Open Photoshop CS2. First, I did the basic level adjustments and cropping, along with an auto color adjustment. Then, I killed some of the ugliness by using a radial blur set to zoom, focusing on the sunset. Finally, I decided to add a lens flare, even though it’s a filter that’s way overused. In this case, I think it’s excusable.

I hope you enjoy. I’ll be posting more, promise. Thanks for sticking with me.

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