Dream or Nightmare?? by 30pics4jackiesdiamond

Dream or Nightmare??

Kali challenged me to be inspired by the work of Julieanne Kost's What I Dream series.

Took myself on a walk I did regularly during lockdown to find trees, tree tunnels and views that would fit with my idea. This is six photos!

There are three layers - bottom is a sunken boat, middle a view of the shore, top layer is waving grass. I then overlayed these with a tree tunnel, a copse of gnarled trees and then a single tree.

I am chuffed to bits with this and I didn't get cross with Affinity at all, which I thought would be my biggest challenge.

Thank you Kali, I always learn a new processing skill with your challenges, and today it was layering and changing opacity.

I'm certainly going to give this another go at the weekend.

@kali66 THANK YOU!! As ever with your challenges it was a challenge but was fun too. I did have a plan of what to get in my camera but it became a bit more organic as I played in Affinity. Critique and tips to improve would be most welcome.
June 30th, 2021  
What a fabulous result. I love the ethereal quality. I had not heard of Julieanne Kost. Now I'm going to go and have a longer look at her work.
June 30th, 2021  
Love it! Fav
June 30th, 2021  
Fantastic image. It is like a dream.
June 30th, 2021  
amazing and dreamy image.
June 30th, 2021  
Most impressive that you can do layers like this with photography the same way you do layers in your painting! This one is getting a FAV
June 30th, 2021  
I dreamt of living in a lovely place and I do. You have captured it all. Love it.
June 30th, 2021  
This is quite dreamy fav
June 30th, 2021  
Awesome processing. Love the dreamy feel, but still feels outdoorsy.
June 30th, 2021  
woohoo! 6 layers is a lot to work with, epic editing. its always a revelation how different layers work together and textures overlap as you play with an image like this, glad you had fun. as for critique there is a glowy bit in the middle which i cant figure out how it was made, but i think if the foreground tree was the same darkness the whole way down would make it stand out a bit more. was that your top layer?
June 30th, 2021  
@kali66 it's the tree tunnel Kali!

@shutterbug49 I was out photogging for nearly an hour
@Dawn thank you
@wakelys and thank you for reviving cuppa!!!
@grammyn many thanks
@ludwigsdiana glad you like it
@marlboromaam her work is very dreamy
@lyndamcg many thanks
@salza there's a link in my narrative Sally
June 30th, 2021  
ooooh. just try darkening the tree trunk and see if it pops more
June 30th, 2021  
It works so brilliantly as a single image. Dreamy indeed.
June 30th, 2021  
@kali66 I will!! Apparently Julianne Most is the Ambassador Evangelist for Adobe!! And I used Affinity 😂
June 30th, 2021  
haha
June 30th, 2021  
I find this style of photo so fascinating. I can't figure out how one figures out what photos to use in the layers. I'm impressed with your result.
July 1st, 2021  
Beautifully done; reminiscent of impressionism
July 1st, 2021  
wow, I am impressed. fascinating !
July 1st, 2021  
Nice effect. Love it.
July 1st, 2021  
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