To me, the image is not fully dressed until it has been through the digital darkroom. Photoshop can also be used to create digital art, or to forge a combination of the two.
Here are some examples.
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The photography style known by the name of the photographer who made this technique famous - Pep Ventosa. You can see the st up of this image here.
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Some days all you want to do is snuggle up with a good book.
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Trying the Adamski Effect - using a technique in Photoshop that creates a path blur, I quickly became hooked on these images. You can see more of them here, plus a link to the tutorial I used to create them.
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David almost gets blown away during Storm Eunice
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Time stack of a kingfisher diving
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My first attempt at the Thanos Effect
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To get this image I half filled a fish tank with water and had the LSH create waves by dragging a chopping board from one side to the other.
The light bulb was placed on a white perspex to create the reflections. Both images were photographed against a white background which was lit by two flash guns. There was also another speedlight with a large diffuser over my right shoulder.
Then started the hard work to combine them in Photoshop, adding a blue colour to the waves, making sure I got the right shadows, highlights and reflections on the bulb, and cloning out the hundreds of stray bubbles!
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"Is it really only Wednesday?"
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The sad thing about getting older is that no-one knows you are still young on the inside.
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I love to see the world through his eyes.
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Applerexia - the struggle is real
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Time stack
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Book your escape today...
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Spherical panorama of seagulls on a wall at sunset
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Inverted image
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In a galaxy far away
Taking my "Anyone for Tennis" photo (you can see the making of that image under Blog), I added a background of a Milky Way photo which was captured in Marsabit in Kenya, and replaced the tennis ball with a globe.
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Look mum, I can fly
Levitation photography.
Created by taking two images - one with Francesca resting atop a stepladder, and one with just the background without Francesca in it; then combine the two in Photoshop.
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Race for life - AKA the egg and spoon race.
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Supersquirrel
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A style known as Out of Bounds where the characters of the image are seen to be emerging from a frame within the picture.
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Creating a tilt-shift effect with Photoshop
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Using Topaz Studio for textures and filters.
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I love fruit