December 22, 2017. Sonoma County Coast, California. On our way to The Sea Ranch for Christmas. The Pacific was living up to its name. Pacific. Peaceful. Mirror flat. The sky was calm. The temperature was mild. All was right with the world. Waiting until the clouds lazily drifted into position, I clicked.
I wanted the dreamy look that Nature suggested. I just helped her along a bit. Then in creative rapture I hit a wrong key combination in Photoshop. Embracing the error, I offer it to you thus. Voilà.
(Nikon D750; Nikon 28-300 f/3.5-5.6G Zoom. RAW processing in DxO Pro; Editing in Adobe Photoshop.)
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This photo and the previous one you took kind of remind me of Blade Runner 2049.
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Wow. Makes me want to see the movie!
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I enjoyed the word-play in the title and also the “creative rapture”. What a delightful phrase!
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Thank you. I love word play.
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Better word play than sword play.
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Sooth.
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Peaceful, calm, serene, at one with all. Pacific indeed. Artistic acceptance of an error can be a creative eureka moment.
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Thank you. It certainly did here. This is the first of a four part series running every other day. Stay tuned.
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Beautiful soft tones.
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Thank you very much. As I said to Steve Gingold, this is the first of a four part series of different treatments of ocean horizons.
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I’m looking forward to the others.
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Yea, Yea…bring it on……what is creative rapture? is it s Photoshop plugin?
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Creative rapture is just getting caught up in the joy of creating. What happened is I accidentally filled the entire screen with white and the image just disappeared. Completely freaked me out. After I realized what I had done, I tried dialing some transparency into the white. At some point I achieved a balance and what you see is what I got.
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I was about to ask what the mistake was. The last comment and answer did the work for me. Accidents have been the source of many discoveries. Penicillin comes to mind as a classic example from the 20th century medicine.
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Thank you. Imagine my shock when the entire screen turned white!
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Long exposure?
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Nope. Good guess though. It took a lot of work in Photoshop a complete division that the original scene suggested to me. The thing is, original scene suggested something to me. I had to take it the rest of the way. Almost everything on my fine art website is the product of the original scene suggesting something to me and me taking it the rest of the way. This week you will see three more examples.
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Yes, I’m acquainted with a process in which the image and I journey through a silent communication of creativity. Also, if I ignore a nudge, regret is sure to follow. I’ve tried to bring about a long exposure affect in photoshop…never have have been as successful as this beautiful image.
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Always listen to the muse. She’s trying to tell you something. This shot was something like the usual 1/1000 f/8 ISO 100. Nothing fancy. It was all in DxO and Photoshop.
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A happy accident Michael and a beautiful result. Have done that on purpose a few times. I love the look it creates. Learned it in a photography class
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I certainly have added it to my bag of tricks. I don’t use it very often but it is handy sometimes.
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It has a nacreous quality that reminds me of abalone, or certain other shells that wash up along our beaches in winter.
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That is really interesting! If I look through the scene as three dimensional I see a misty quality — which I was going for — but if I look at it as a two dimensional object then I see the nacreous quality.
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Beautiful, Michael. I have to know that key combination!
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I accidentally filled an entire layer with the foreground color which happened to be white. On a Mac I think it’s command option delete.
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I may steal that idea.
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If I give it to you, it’s not stealing. 😉
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And by the way, thank you very much.
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Love it, Michael. It’s fun to experiment in post. And, I love Sea Ranch. What a special place.
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Beautiful 🙂
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Thank you!
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I love the way the horizon morphs from razor -sharp to totally smudged, in a very short time. Handling this bright light could not have been easy. Fabulous.
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I won’t lie. A lot of work went into this.
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🙂 Good to know! Some people enjoy processing, some don’t. I’m sure you do, though after a while, one’s eyes get pretty bleary. But it’s worth it.
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If my eyes get bleary, I get some rest and come back later. I’ve ruined an awful lotta images with bleary eyes.
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Beautiful and diaphanous seascape.
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Thanks very much John. Much appreciated.
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If every accident would ha such brilliant results… 😊
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Thank you for spending so much time looking at my work. And your comment is spot on. Beyond just a photography or art lesson, there’s a life lesson.
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