I have been a fan of Kelly Robitaille since I discovered her work years ago...this is my first time trying to put together my take on her style. I love her whimsical, dramatic, creative style. I thought about sharing the original and inviting others to try but I was so excited to try the edit that I couldnt wait. I plan to do a series...I have some other ideas in mind.

Please share your thoughts, especially if you see something I can improve. I tried the frequency separation method and I can never figure out the texture part. Also, dodging and burning pointers would be helpful for more of a painterly look.

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I am so thankful to everyone who contributed to this feed. Y'all have kept me pretty busy googling artists that I was not familiar with and viewing galleries that were absolutely stunning.

I just wanted to share...yesterday I took a little time out of my tax prep work and shot a picture so I could try doing a Kelly Robitaille style image, but make it my own. I spent about 4 hours late last night on the edit and posted it to a Facebook group and SHE commented on my photo!! I love her brilliantly creative mind and her editing skills are pretty amazing, some of her work is darker than what I tend to do but her talent is pretty impressive none-the-less. So I am pretty happy at the moment! And I am really happy with my first try also. I had issues with the frequency separation and dodge and burn parts but the rest of it, I think, came together pretty well. Excited to get better and experiment more with this style. I was thinking about sharing it in the post processing area for some suggestions on improvements, and help with the fs and d&b...

Jolly and Cameraf4, Great additions to this feed! Thanks for sharing.

Ok, thank you. So like zooming in after download? I did that without realizing that is what I was doing...it was pretty spectacular to see the detail. Wow! And thanks again for explaining.

Beautiful captures!

May I ask what double download is? I am clueless. Thanks, Rolk.

Wow, that is incredible!

Thank you Jo.

Beautiful images. I have the Sigma 15 2.8 and have yet to learn to compose shots like these with it.

You are very welcome.

Thank you. I am still learning and one of the reason I have been taking out lenses I do not use as much. I typically grab my 24-105 which lowest is F4. I do find that I have the tendency to miss the mark with my settings when I grab the primes, misjudging the focal plane area. I once found a really great site, dofsimilator.net, which I need to go spend some time at with my lens selection before I head out to shoot. I will go back and try to improve the shot you mention! Thanks again.

Thank you, Earnest.

Aside from the standard adjustments in LR or raw, I took the photo into one of the Topaz filters. Sorry, I cannot remember exactly which one was used. I wanted a softer look for the surrounding foliage. I may have masked or reduced when back in PS. Hope that helps, sorry I cant be more specific. I edit experimentally by each individual photo based on how I envision it when I took it...and there are always happy accidents as well.

I like big bokeh, I cannot lie. Ok, just a little fun there. I would say often what I shoot does require some element of blur in the background. The moniker was taken from a T-shirt that I own and happened to be wearing when I found/signed onto UHH. So, for lack of something more creative it was more of a steal but I switched out the I for Eye.

I felt bad, but the others would not have survived if I had not cared for them, so I felt good too.