Red Car

While I've been experimenting with editing some of my old photos I discovered a very simple way to do selective desaturation. It doesn't look good for every photo, but I kind of like how this one worked out.

---

Linking up to Photo Friday.

Table and Chairs

Once again I've picked a photo where everything isn't quite as it seems. In reality there were a lot less chairs than there are in this edited version.

Once I got started in Photoshop, I couldn't resist playing with the photo a bit more and eventually came up with an abstract which bears little resemblance to the original.

---

Linking up with Monday Mellow Yellows and Ruby Tuesday Too.

Red and Gold

I've never really been a fan of abstract art, so it seems a bit strange to me that over the years I've developed a taste for abstract photography.

This is a macro of a red ribbon which I shot way back in 2011, newly edited to make use of the superior software I've acquired over the last 5 years.

My original 2011 edit showed a lot less detail.

---

This post is part of Ruby Tuesday Too and Wordless Wednesdays.

Red Flower, Yellow Flower

Even though photography has been one of my hobbies for more than half my life, I'm still struggling to develop my own photographic style.

One thing I particularly enjoy, however, is showing the world in a way that the human eye doesn't normally get to see it. One way of doing this is to get up close and personal to tiny things like I did in my post about "The Fly".

Another way is by choosing lenses which show a distorted picture of the world.

I don't have a fisheye lens, but I do have a fisheye adaptor which screws into the front of my lens and allows me to get up close to little things, making them appear large in the photo, while making background items appear tiny. That's how I managed to make these flowers appear larger than the trees in the background.

---

This post is part of Monday Morning Yellows, Today's Flowers, Macro Monday and FloralFridayFoto.