KindaSpikey Loc: English living in San Diego

I've mentioned my friend who is a photographer and manufacturer, several times in the past, and a few of you were interested to know more, so I'm posting a link for anyone who's curious to see what it's all about. You can see some of his work, and there's a really interesting video showing how he creates "acrylic face mounts", among other things. As I said, this is in response to some inquiries from some of you.. So here it is!

https://luminous-views.com/

Hope you enjoy!
Ray.

dpullum Loc: Tampa Florida

The video is a quick and easy watch showing what it is to create, print, and mount... quite a task. His labor is a work of passion and pride. Thank you KindaSpikey for your comments and link.

In the UHH "The Exploration of Digital Artistry" section there have been interesting "watercolor" from photos. I have done some, using programs from JIXIPIX, Topaz, and my old favorite DAP [Dynamic Autopainter $50]
https://www.mediachance.com/dap/
https://alternativeto.net/software/dynamic-auto-painter/
https://jixipix.com/watercolor-studio/details.html

Amazing that with Digital Photography we can all easily become artists with the click of the shutter and the use of software on a so-so photo made great by a program. For watercolor prints, it is interesting to use very textured paper. Watercolor painting is difficult, like-very, I took the beginners course and stopped there, hard work was not fun... I am a palette knife guy.

While few of us can or want to be like your friend we can all do a few for gifts to our "Dear Aunt Sally" or cover up the blemishes of the wall behind the sofa.

cdayton

😀😀😀

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

KindaSpikey Loc: English living in San Diego

Good morning and thank you for the kind words. There's actually 2 videos there, the canvas print and the acrylic face mount. The acrylic one is much more interesting if you have time to watch it.
Just for some information on his process, (not the printing but the photogphy). It's kind of layering and stacking. But he generally sets up up on a tripod around early afternoon, and begins shooting his chosen scene. (the tripod must not move at all). He shoots the same scene over and over until around 10-11pm,up to around 1200 shots, so he has a very broad spectrum of lighting conditions. (sunlit with shadows, dusk, street lights, vehicle and building lights, moonlight.) as well as vastly different sky's. Then when he gets into post, he selects up to 2 dozen shots that he likes from the entire range and blends them together. If you ever got to see his finishes pieces, they are spectacular! There are sky's that couldn't exist in nature, the landscapes or street scenes are lit in ways that look incredible, (and if you don't know, most people can't figure out how they look the way they do), also there are many faint "ghosts" throughout the images where people came and went, and vehicles passed by, I know a few collectors who have very large acrylic "face mounts" hanging on their walls, and even up to a year later they still find things in the images that they hadn't noticed! This is why his gallery and business are called "Luminous views", because of the unique way the scenes are lit, they almost glow. Anyway, hope that held a little interest for you.
Stay safe and have a great day!
Ray.