Textured painterly seascape iPhoneography image. I have been on a run of floral iPhoneography workflows recently and still have more to post. I thought I would mix it up a bit with this heavily painterly processed seascape image.
I escaped Lincoln for a few days with the family and spent a long weekend at the coast. It was great to get close to the sea again although the weather was a bit bland. This iPhoneography image includes my own first use of Distressed FX having been introduced to it by a whole host of wonderful iPhoneography artists whose work I admire (you know who you are).
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Process and apps used
Hipstamatic ~ initial capture. We were on a beach train driving in and out of sea and I grabbed a couple of shots as best I could. No opportunity on a moving vehicle to spend a lot of time on composition so the images were always going to need a little work:
This combo is Tinto 1848 lens with D-Type Plate film:
Filterstorm ~ Quite a significant crop. Changing the ratio to 4:5 and taking the opportunity to resize back to 2,000px at the longest side:
Snapseed ~ Straighten tool used to provide a level horizon:
Laminar Pro ~ time to start introducing some colour. I select the vintage filter (applied at 100pct) and the Retro filter (applied at 30pct) to introduce a range of blue tones in keeping with the scene:
PhotoToaster ~ Clarify filter applied. The iPhoneography image at this stage is in need of sharpening up to pull out some detail and this is a great filter for that:
Distressed FX ~ Birds effect and Charm texture added:
{ version one }:
Distressed FX ~ I was unhappy with the sky and so decided to create a second version. Egret effect and Charm texture added:
{ version two }:
Superimpose ~ { version two } layered over { version one } with a rectangular mask applied with blurred edges to feather the effect covering the sea area. The two layers are blended under the ‘color’ method at 20pct:
What on earth are you talking about Skip??? Please refer to my Superimpose video tutorials to see this process in action:
100CamerasIn1 ~ I love the title of the actions in this app. I selected ‘It seemed like such a good plan’ set to minimum. Note this app changes the proportions to 1:1 ratio. This wasn’t my initial intention and I could have worked round it by changing canvas size but I decided to go with it:
Filterstorm ~ saturation reduced by 50pct:
Narrated video tutorial
Wow, this is really really beautiful. I am in awe, looking at how a black and white picture has been so intelligently and creatively worked on to get the final awesome result. Thank you for sharing this with us.
Have a lovely weekend!
Thank you. I’m really pleased you enjoy it 🙂
It’s great 🙂
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