Impressionist Monarch Laying Eggs
Mar 6, 2023 21:05:53 #
Monet(impressionist style to me) is the theme for the week on Create 52 on Facebook.
A monarch that was laying eggs on a milkweed plant in my yard.
First I took a cropped image that I posted last year done fairly sharp with vivid colors so it looked a bit like stained-glass, then I softened the focus, added a film grain filter followed by Topaz simplify "impressions" brush and finally upping the fill light a bit.
Canon 80D, 100-400L mk2 @ 400,1/800 @ f/8.0, ISO-1250
Hand held just a few minutes before Noon on a sunny March1, 2022
#1 OOC
#2 last year's edit I based this on
#3 My take on impressionist style of the butterfly
A monarch that was laying eggs on a milkweed plant in my yard.
First I took a cropped image that I posted last year done fairly sharp with vivid colors so it looked a bit like stained-glass, then I softened the focus, added a film grain filter followed by Topaz simplify "impressions" brush and finally upping the fill light a bit.
Canon 80D, 100-400L mk2 @ 400,1/800 @ f/8.0, ISO-1250
Hand held just a few minutes before Noon on a sunny March1, 2022
#1 OOC
#2 last year's edit I based this on
#3 My take on impressionist style of the butterfly
Mar 7, 2023 05:25:39 #
Mar 7, 2023 06:33:47 #
Mar 7, 2023 07:56:26 #
A fun result. This week's theme has been a very enjoyable learning experience.
Mar 7, 2023 08:13:53 #
Photo 2 shows nature to be its own impressionistic self; how beautiful it is.
Mar 7, 2023 08:32:34 #
I think the background in number 3 is spot-on but the butterfly (whilst amazing!) may be a bit sharp and detailed for impressionist? A lovely image though.
Mar 7, 2023 09:55:23 #
I am really liking last year's edit (#2). I agree it has that stained glass effect.
Mar 7, 2023 12:03:13 #
Mar 7, 2023 12:04:27 #
joehel2 wrote:
Beautifully done. The OOC image was a wonderful starting place.
Thank you. The light was so good and the butterfly kept changing like a model posing, it was hard to pick one image.
Mar 7, 2023 12:22:59 #
Linda From Maine wrote:
A fun result. This week's theme has been a very enjoyable learning experience.
It is a bit fun. I am enjoying it.
I have gone back to a series of images of a Snowy Egret coming in to land that I took in 2015 with my 6D and 100-400L mk1 and edited to look like one of the good magazine illustrators of the past set out to make it look a bit dreamy. I intend to do two edits of two of the styles Monet used or developed during his career. And since he also did the dreamy style, it will be a 3 image set of the dreamy look, sharp-edged & simplified and the pointillism/dots to various extremes.
Since I have both wife given and self-given chores, it may take a day or two.
Mar 7, 2023 12:23:40 #
dpullum wrote:
Photo 2 shows nature to be its own impressionistic self; how beautiful it is.
Thank you very much.
Mar 7, 2023 12:32:11 #
magnetoman wrote:
I think the background in number 3 is spot-on but the butterfly (whilst amazing!) may be a bit sharp and detailed for impressionist? A lovely image though.
Thanks, long ago I took a class in Art History my freshman year in college, it spoiled my second semester of 4.0 since I missed an A by one point due to not speaking "Gothic Cathedral" fluently. I will be "woke" for a bit = Missing a 4.0 by one point out of thousands in that class crushed my ego and has left me devastated to this day. Well, not really, but it lets me hide among the herd of sensitive woke types.
In that class and if you do some image searches online you will find that sometimes the impressionists(well some of them) mixed the pointillism with sharp or semi-sharp main subjects. I wonder if my professor would care that I remembered that about pointillism 58 years later?
Mar 7, 2023 12:44:21 #
robertjerl wrote:
Monet(impressionist style to me) is the theme for ... (show quote)
I like this, thank you for posting.
Bruce.
Mar 7, 2023 21:35:22 #
riderxlx wrote:
I like this, thank you for posting.
Bruce.
Bruce.
Thanks, you are welcome.
Mar 8, 2023 00:24:48 #
robertjerl wrote:
Thanks, long ago I took a class in Art History my ... (show quote)
I take your point but can’t say I’ve seen anything quite as sharp as your butterfly. Still a great interpretation and one I’ve enjoyed. Thanks for your explanation.
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