Welcome to July's POD gallery. The POD galleries give me an oppertunity to do what I do best and that's shoot Creative Photographs and show them off to the public, clients and a select group of highly trained professional photographers who belong to the Daily Photo Community at SmugMug for Critique purposes which gives me a good idea of how well I have created the message the image was supposed to relay to your eyes.
Hopefully I'll display some colorful ideas I create through out the month once again and also since this is a very Patriotic time of the year. But then again you never know what you'll see here so check back every day for my creations. As always your comments & critiques are welcome and appreciated. ~Bill~
Hopefully I'll display some colorful ideas I create through out the month once again and also since this is a very Patriotic time of the year. But then again you never know what you'll see here so check back every day for my creations. As always your comments & critiques are welcome and appreciated. ~Bill~
"Some Things Never Die"
This abstract started out as a simple photo idea to shoot my old Cassette Tape collection that hangs on my garage wall for the last 15 years unused and turned into a 4 hour artistic project that I had a ton of fun with.
Built into this photo is my attempt at building angles, depth and shadows to show how sad I was that someone took away my cassette tape deck and replaced it with CD's and to prove to these young kids that we DID actually have music before CD's were invented LOL (maybe I should have done my 8 Track player)
By using different masks, selective color, a BUNCH of layers (over 140 of them) and hand painting & shadowing I wanted to KILL my tape collection in front of you all. Everything in this image was created today including the 2 actual photos of the Tape Rack and the Tape Player I still have and then the frames, smoke effect and bullet holes were all created by hand using Photoshop skills and placed 1 by 1 into the image. During this project I learned how to make a really cool way to make bullet holes and then drop them into a image using different sizes and and angles for a realistic looking effect which I plan on making a tutorial on and sharing it with everyone because it worked so well.
So I call this original piece "Some Things Never Die", look at it large to see the detail I put in it if you wish and let me know if it provokes any thoughts, if it does then I have have done my job as an artist. Seems that my brain was idol yesterday and full of thoughts today. I just couldn't stop working on this piece because I was having so much fun with it.
I would write more technical data on this but I would be here all day, there was a LOT involved. So just enjoy it and I hope it brings back some memories for us older folks ;)
~Bill~
"Some Things Never Die"
This abstract started out as a simple photo idea to shoot my old Cassette Tape collection that hangs on my garage wall for the last 15 years unused and turned into a 4 hour artistic project that I had a ton of fun with.
Built into this photo is my attempt at building angles, depth and shadows to show how sad I was that someone took away my cassette tape deck and replaced it with CD's and to prove to these young kids that we DID actually have music before CD's were invented LOL (maybe I should have done my 8 Track player)
By using different masks, selective color, a BUNCH of layers (over 140 of them) and hand painting & shadowing I wanted to KILL my tape collection in front of you all. Everything in this image was created today including the 2 actual photos of the Tape Rack and the Tape Player I still have and then the frames, smoke effect and bullet holes were all created by hand using Photoshop skills and placed 1 by 1 into the image. During this project I learned how to make a really cool way to make bullet holes and then drop them into a image using different sizes and and angles for a realistic looking effect which I plan on making a tutorial on and sharing it with everyone because it worked so well.
So I call this original piece "Some Things Never Die", look at it large to see the detail I put in it if you wish and let me know if it provokes any thoughts, if it does then I have have done my job as an artist. Seems that my brain was idol yesterday and full of thoughts today. I just couldn't stop working on this piece because I was having so much fun with it.
I would write more technical data on this but I would be here all day, there was a LOT involved. So just enjoy it and I hope it brings back some memories for us older folks ;)
~Bill~