"Glowing Crystal Glass"

Well I felt it time I get back to my artistic roots today instead of a plain old photo image and have a little fun. I wanted to use a simple item to create an colorful art deco abstract & have the finished piece to have some color, depth & height to it giving it a feel of being in a tunnel or black hole on acid LOL.

What you are looking at is a simple macro shot of a Blue Stem wine glass which I sat on top of a multi colored light stand and shot it at 90' directly over the top looking down. The colors you see have NOT been manipulated what so ever and is as they came out of the camera, the outer edge has been blurred using FOCAL POINT to add some artistic depth and to bring the eye toward the center of the shot, leaving the center sharp & in tact. The black area between the 2 is the dead space around the glass where the light did not diffract or carry through the glass.

Next step was to create an artistic frame to add more depth to the shot and create a art deco finish to the piece. This was accomplished using Photo Tools and creating a simple grey 2D box frame and then adding a slight white glow to the edges and then a slim black line to border it giving it a 3D effect and some height. Next was to add the slim red line around the frame and then a 10 pixel black border. Finishing up using 'Pro Frames 3' I went in and used a simple edge frame and blurred it almost 90% using white as the color outline which created the marbleizing effect you see. This had to be done 4 times rotating the effect 90' each application until the marble effect was all the way around the frame.

There you have it, using a simple wine glass & cheap $5.00 4 Color LED light stand, a few photoshop plug ins and a little imagination & creativity I give you a pretty cool Abstract Art Deco Piece I'll call the GLOWING CRYSTAL GLASS ! LOL

"Glowing Crystal Glass"

Well I felt it time I get back to my artistic roots today instead of a plain old photo image and have a little fun. I wanted to use a simple item to create an colorful art deco abstract & have the finished piece to have some color, depth & height to it giving it a feel of being in a tunnel or black hole on acid LOL.

What you are looking at is a simple macro shot of a Blue Stem wine glass which I sat on top of a multi colored light stand and shot it at 90' directly over the top looking down. The colors you see have NOT been manipulated what so ever and is as they came out of the camera, the outer edge has been blurred using FOCAL POINT to add some artistic depth and to bring the eye toward the center of the shot, leaving the center sharp & in tact. The black area between the 2 is the dead space around the glass where the light did not diffract or carry through the glass.

Next step was to create an artistic frame to add more depth to the shot and create a art deco finish to the piece. This was accomplished using Photo Tools and creating a simple grey 2D box frame and then adding a slight white glow to the edges and then a slim black line to border it giving it a 3D effect and some height. Next was to add the slim red line around the frame and then a 10 pixel black border. Finishing up using 'Pro Frames 3' I went in and used a simple edge frame and blurred it almost 90% using white as the color outline which created the marbleizing effect you see. This had to be done 4 times rotating the effect 90' each application until the marble effect was all the way around the frame.

There you have it, using a simple wine glass & cheap $5.00 4 Color LED light stand, a few photoshop plug ins and a little imagination & creativity I give you a pretty cool Abstract Art Deco Piece I'll call the GLOWING CRYSTAL GLASS ! LOL